A Southern California man has been convicted of child endangerment for hitting his crying 7-year-old son and then throwing him off a tour boat in busy Newport Harbor, Orange County, the district attorney's office said this week.

A Southern California man has been convicted of child endangerment for hitting his crying 7-year-old son and then throwing him off a tour boat in busy Newport Harbor, Orange County, the district attorney's office said this week.

MAN who threw his son, 7, overboard during a sightseeing cruise pleaded guilty today to child abuse, under a plea deal.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A father who tossed his seven-year-old son overboard during a Southern California harbor cruise has pleaded guilty to felony child abuse and endangerment. The Orange County Register says Sloan Briles entered the plea Monday. Instead of jail, he was sentenced to a year in a child abuse treatment program and six months days in a residential alcohol-treatment program. He ...

California man won't get jail time stemming from August incident.

An Irvine man Monday admitted pitching his 7-year-old son from a boat in Newport Beach Harbor and was immediately ordered to complete six months in an alcohol treatment program and a one-year treatment program for child abusers, a prosecutor said.

File-In this booking photo released by the Orange County Sheriff's Dept. on Monday Aug. 29, 2011 showing Sloan Briles, 35 who was arrested Sunday Aug. 28, 2011 for investigation of child endangerment and resisting arrest.

SANTA ANA, Calif. - A drunken father who tossed his 7-year-old son overboard in a busy Orange County harbor, forcing another boat to veer to avoid hitting the boy, pleaded guilty Monday to felony child abuse and endangerment.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A drunken father who tossed his 7-year-old son overboard in a busy Orange County harbor, forcing another boat to veer to avoid hitting the boy, pleaded guilty Monday to felony child abuse and endangerment.

A drunken father who tossed his 7-year-old son overboard in a busy Orange County harbor, forcing another boat to veer to avoid hitting the boy, pleaded guilty Monday to felony child abuse and endangerment.