Hudsonville Father Sentenced to Prison in Drowning Death of Son
Timothy Koets, a Hudsonville father and former professor at Grand Rapids Community College, has been sentenced to prison time in connection with the 2019 drowning death of his autistic teenage son. WOOD-TV8 reports that 16-year-old Sam Koets, who had the cognitive ability of a toddler, died in the family's above ground pool in March of 2019. Sam's father, Timothy Koets, was sentenced on one count of involuntary manslaughter, one count of controlled substance obtained by fraud and one count of child abuse in the fourth degree Monday. Reports at the time of the incident state that Sam was lef...
Source: wgrd.com