Dad throws son overboard during cruise, just horse play

Santa Ana, California - A man accused of throwing his 7-year-old son overboard during a sightseeing cruise around California’s Newport Harbor says he and the boy were just horse playing and talked about jumping in the water together. “I was not trying to kill my son. We were playing in the shallows,” Sloane Briles said. “I discussed it with him. We’d jump in together and just thought it would be funny, ha ha.” Two of 85 people who were on the tour saw things differently. The passengers expressed shock and disgust after seeing Briles toss the boy into the water. “I’m on a boat tour called the Queen and there’s a man who just threw his son overboard,” a woman told an Orange County sheriff’s dispatcher. More