A Michigan judge has sentenced a father to a year in jail and parenting classes after he used his 2-year-old daughter as a shield during a confrontation with a Taser-wielding police officer.
The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press report that 27-year-old Joseph Cox of Belleville also was ordered Thursday in Macomb Circuit Court to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Cox had pleaded no contest to misdemeanor child abuse, and guilty to home invasion and obstructing an officer.
Cox was accused in March of breaking into his ex-wife’s home in Warren, just north of Detroit. The child was held in front of a Taser pointed at Cox by an officer. The officer didn’t fire.
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