Potential plea in high school shooting plot case:
Do you remember the name, Michele Cossey? She’s the 47-year-old ‘mother’ who supplied firearms to her teenage son Dillon who was going to use them to attack Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School in Pennsylvania.
In case you don’t remember let the article refresh your memory…
Even while knowing that her son was troubled, Cossey bought him three guns – a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle, a .22-caliber rifle and a .22-caliber handgun – and the makings for live grenades including inert grenades, gunpowder and BB pellets, according to the criminal complaint.
Police found the 9 mm rifle with laser scope and seven homemade grenades, four of which were live, along with numerous air and BB guns, knives and Columbine-related materials, in Cossey’s son’s bedroom on the night of Oct. 10, 2007, when they searched the home.
Also, she was home-schooling Dillon in the 18 months prior to his arrest.
Anyway, it looks like she’ll be entering into a plea agreement as early as Monday.
Michele Cossey has been charged with endangering the welfare of children, unlawful transfer of firearms, possession of a firearm by a minor, corruption of minors and recklessly endangering another.
No word yet on any of the details of the plea. If she gets away with no jail time then it will be a victory for criminal parenting.
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