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GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (KABC) — The parents of a 13-year-old boy who died while riding an e-motorcycle in Garden Grove have been charged with child endangerment, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
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Benson Nguyen died in May. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office says Benson was going more than 40 miles per hour before losing control and slamming into a light pole.
Garden Grove police said the e-motorcycle he was riding was not street legal and emphasized it was not an e-bike, noting it did not have pedals and was more comparable to a dirt bike that would be used for off-roading.
In addition to a child endangerment charge, his father, Vu Thanh Nguyen, 56, is facing a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Prosecutors say he bought his son a “faster and more powerful” e-motorcycle despite “multiple warnings about his son’s reckless riding and the fact that his son was repeatedly injured while riding a different electric vehicle.”
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The district attorney’s office added in a press release that Benson broke his leg just six months before he died.
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His mother, Hong Cuc Thi Nguyen, is facing one misdemeanor count of child endangerment.
If convicted on all charges, Vu Nguyen faces a maximum sentence of six years in state prison and Hong Nguyen faces a maximum sentence of one year in county jail.
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