A Wisconsin mother is at the center of a months-long police investigation after authorities said she served alcohol to her 18-year-old son at a local bar before he crashed his motorcycle and died, raising difficult questions about parental responsibility and an unusual provision in the state’s drinking laws.
Joshua Schladweiler was killed in July after his motorcycle collided with a van in Muskego, with investigators later determining that his blood alcohol concentration was more than twice the legal limit for most adult drivers.
In a report for FOX6 News Milwaukee, journalist Bret Lemoine spoke with the teenager’s grieving family, the driver of the van, and a legal expert about why prosecutors have not filed criminal charges against Joshua’s mother, Angela Schladweiler, despite police referring several potential offenses for review…