MONTREAL, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- The Quebec man who posted a video on the Internet of his 7-year-old son driving the family car says life has become "hell" as a result.
In a telephone interview with Quebec TV news station LCN, Sylvain Fortier said the tape was shot two years ago in a remote area north of Montreal. The tape also shows the boy's mother and younger sister in the backseat. No one was wearing seatbelts, the Globe and Mail reported.
"I just wish people would stop making it out to be worse than it was. They're treating me as if I killed someone, it just doesn't make any sense," Fortier told LCN. "My wife is upset, my kids are crying, this is hell."
In the video, the father can be heard praising his son and bragging that he was driving at 35 mph, but in the interview with LCN, Fortier said the boy never got going faster than 25 mph.
The Quebec provincial police are investigating and haven't indicated if any charges will be filed.
