Riverton suspect's mother speaks out

Mother speaks out in defense of son in school shooting plot:
Chasinee Jaeger, the mother of Riverton suspect Andrew Jaeger, had some things to say about the situation...

COLUMBUS, Kan. -- Investigators looking into an alleged plot by five teenage boys to carry out a shooting spree at their southeast Kansas high school used a search warrant for violent computer games to seize "The Legend of Zelda," two "Spiderman" games and the financial software "Quicken," one of the boys' mothers said Wednesday.

Also seized from Chasinee Jaeger's house were two pocketknives and a plastic zip bag containing small-caliber ammunition used by her son to go hunting with his father, she said in her first public interview since charges were filed against her son, Andrew, and four other Riverton High School students.

"These people have so much power _ and we are dinky little citizens," Chasinee Jaeger said.

Chasinee Jaeger said her son is "an All-American boy" who takes lifeguard classes and karate classes. On the day he was arrested, he was to have received a district award for an FFA project on growing melons.

Last year, Andrew Jaeger was assigned a project regarding school problems and told to pick a subject for the report. He picked the Columbine school shooting, and concluded in the paper that those boys were intelligent and would have had a bright future if they had not done that, she said.

"He doesn't admire them," she said.

At home the family is so strict that Andrew cannot even be on the computer unless the screen faces an open door, his mother said.

Chasinee Jaeger, who came to this country from Thailand in 1981, said the family feels helpless. She said her son cooperated with police in answering questions, and has nothing to hide.

"It is unreal to us," she said of the charges.

She said she wishes she could prove her son was innocent of the accusations made against him.

"These boys have good hearts," she said.

Remember, this is just one point of view. The whole story is still not known. Andrew Jaeger may in fact be innocent but I doubt that all five of them are.