Designated

This morning I was quietly drinking my first cup of coffee, when I heard the announcer on TV say something about a 9 year old driving a van. WTH? Well it seems a drunken man knew he was impaired and could not drive so at 3 am he put his 9 yr old daughter in a booster seat and let her drive. They went to a gas station and the camera showed the van pull in and park. Inside the dad was actually bragging about it. The video also shows the little girl getting in the drivers seat and pulling away. A man called 911 and when the police pulled her over the girl wanted to know why they were stopping he as she was driving “good”. The girl told officers her father had been drinking whiskey all night, took her out to drive, and then decided to stop at the station. The girl's parents are separated; she was with her father for the weekend. Shawn Weimer was charged with second-degree child abuse and fourth-degree child abuse, punishable by up to a year in jail. This happened in Michigan..

My question is…

Will a judge be impressed that he was not driving drunk and that he had the good sense to employ the use of a booster seat so that the child could see as she drove? Will he take into consideration that it was 3:00 am and traffic was light?