Driver sentenced for having sex during high-speed police chase
WASHINGTON (TND) — A man who recently got out of prison for threatening to decapitate his neighbor's children will now serve time for evading police during a pursuit, and having sex while doing so.
A judge in the South Australian town of Mount Gambier sentenced 28-year-old Josua James Childs to more than nine months of home detention for the series of events that happened in 2021, as well as an unrelated assault from 2020, according to ABC Australia.
Police told the court that in September, they told Childs twice to stop his vehicle during a police chase.
Childs ignored police and kept driving.
Another officer later spotted Childs and deployed spike strips to disable the car, but Childs kept driving.
With his tires grinding down to the metal rims, police sent out another set of spike strips to no avail.
It's what happened next that sentencing judge Magistrate Koula Kossiavelos called "extraordinary."
After two sets of spike strips were deployed, police say a female passenger straddled Childs as he was driving and began to move in an up-and-down motion, indicating sex.
Police eventually caught up with Childs and arrested him.
In 2016, Childs was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison after, in 2015, he threatened to decapitate his neighbor's two young children with a machete, according to Adelaide, Australia newspaper "The Advertiser."
Childs was at home when his neighbor was pulling into the driveway when Childs began shining a laser pointer into the vehicle. Shortly after, Childs then showed a machete and threatened to kill the two victims, ages 2 and 3 years old. He told them, "if I see you in the street, you're dead."
