Dad who left kids alone in car for two days while drinking to be sentenced; partying took place during weekend visitation (Jackson, Michigan)

We've posted on dad RICHARD LABO before. This follow up article regarding sentencing leaves out some pretty interesting details about this case. See our previous posts here:

http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2010/09/dad-found-guilty-of-of-2nd-degree-child.html

http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2010/04/dad-with-weekend-visitation-left-kids.html

If you check out our post from April, you'll see that LaBo didn't just leave those kids alone "for hours" while he went out drinking. It was for TWO WHOLE DAYS. During which time, these children were NOT FED. And this was during Daddy's scheduled weekend visitation time.

Which of course begs the question: Since this Daddy apparently had two previous DUIs as well as a "series of misdeanors," who thought it was a good idea to award him with weekend visitation? More importantly, will this "incident" get swept under the rug by the authorities, so that daddy's weekend party/child visitation time continues unimpeded?

Given a lot of the cases I've been seeing out of Michigan lately, it wouldn't surprise me.

http://www.wilx.com/news/headlines/Dad_Who_Left_Boys_Alone_to_be_Sentenced_105994348.html?ref=348

ed: 7:31 AM Oct 28, 2010

Dad Who Left Boys Alone to be Sentenced
Richard LaBo will learn his fate Thursday.
Reporter: News 10


The Jackson father who left his two small sons alone in a car for hours while he got drunk will learn his fate Thursday.

Judge John McBain will sentence Richard LaBo Thursday.

LaBo was convicted on two counts of second degree child abuse last month, after leaving his four- and six-year-old sons alone in an unlocked car while he and his brother got drunk inside a bowling alley in Summit Township.