Friday, October 12, 2007

WTF was this dumb bitch thinking?

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- The mother of a 14-year-old boy accused of planning a "Columbine-type" event at a high school was arrested Friday morning, prosecutors said.
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Michele Cossey, 46, of Plymouth Meeting was charged with six criminal counts in connection with buying her son firearms and bomb-making equipment, including a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9mm semiautomatic rifle.

The charges are unlawful transfer of a fiream, possession of a firearm by a minor, corruption of a minor, endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of reckless endangerment.

A search of the boy's home Wednesday outside Philadelphia turned up the rifle, about 30 air-powered guns, swords, knives, a bomb-making book and videos of the 1999 Columbine High School attack.

Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor Jr. said the weapons were plainly visible in the boy's bedroom.

During a hearing Friday in juvenile court, a judge ruled authorities could continue to hold the teen during their investigation.

The judge also ordered psychiatric and educational achievement evaluations for the youth, who was taken into custody Wednesday night.

The teen was charged as a juvenile with solicitation to commit terror and other counts and was being held at a youth facility.

As Cossey sat sobbing in the courtroom before the hearing, Castor walked over to her and informed her that he had a warrant for her arrest. He told her to go after the hearing to his office on a lower floor of the courthouse, where the warrant was served.

Cossey is not alleged to have helped plot any attack, Castor said Thursday night.

"I don't see any evidence that leads me to conclude that she knew that this attack was planned or anything of that nature," Castor told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."

But he said he thinks charges against her are justified.

"I think you have a parent who has fallen down on the job in supervising the child, perhaps indulgent on the child because she knows he has issues," he said before her arrest.

Police also found seven hand grenades, four of them operational, said Joe Lawrence, deputy chief of the Plymouth Township police. The teenager said the two .22-caliber weapons were stored at a friend's house.

If the teen is found delinquent, he could face long-term detention and counseling. The boy's father also could face criminal charges pending an investigation, police said.

In addition to the weapons, authorities found a hand-painted Nazi flag and videos about the Columbine more...

This just boggles the mind. I don't know what kind of lifestyle these people lead but who thinks a kid should just have a bunch of weapons at his disposal. These parents are lucky their little nut was stopped before he destroyed his life. At least now maybe he will get some help, although that seems unlikely in our Justice system where we don't give a fuck about criminals, even if they are kids.
His parents though are truly responsible. It's not like they had no idea he had access to such weapons, they were complicit. This type of shit on the parents' part just confuses me. What were they thinking?

1 comment:

Lu Cifer, @Lu666Cifer said...

Just like the friggin Columbine kids' parents, WTF were they?! Gee, y'all don't notice your kids stock piling guns and bombs out in the garage?! DUH!
But no, be sure to blame Howard Stern, Doom, Trench Coats, Marilyn Manson, Rammstien, etc etc AD VOMITUM!!!!!!!!!