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  • Dillon Cossey sentenced

    Pa. Boy Sentenced for Stockpiling Guns:

    Dillon Cossey is the 14-year-old homeschooled boy from Pennsylvania who pleaded guilty to plotting an attack against Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School. Today he was sentenced to 7 years in a juvenile facility. The case has been noteworthy because of Cossey’s mom, Michele Cossey, buying guns for her precious little snowflake. She’s facing charges as well however the judge let her have it in court today…

    In court, the judge said Dillon’s mother, Michele Cossey, had created a “me and mom against the world” attitude in her son.

    “This kid has been so totally desocialized, he has no friends,” Tressler said.

    “You want this kid dependent on you? Go buy a dog, go buy a pet,” he told Michele Cossey.

    And you don’t let him sit on the computer all day unsupervised.

    I’m guessing mom won’t receive nearly as much time as her mutant brood but she should.

  • Dillon Cossey’s mom held for trial

    Mother of Plymouth Whitemarsh High youth held for trial:

    Michele Cossey, the mother of would be school shooter Dillon Cossey, has been ordered to stand trial on charges of unlawful transfer of a firearm, possession of a firearm by a minor, and child endangerment. If you recall it was revealed after Dillon Cossey was arrested that his mother was the one who bought the firearms for the 14-year-old.

    Dillon Cossey came to the attention of police on Oct. 10 after a friend told authorities the teen planned a Columbine-like assault on Plymouth Whitemarsh High School. Cossey, who is in the custody of juvenile authorities, admitting the plot and said his mother bought him the weapons, which led to charges against his mother.

    This is the first case that I can recollect where a parent is being charged in connection with a school shooting plot.

  • Not bullying but parenting

    Commentary – It isn’t bullying, stupid, it’s the parenting:

    Here we have another editorial about school shooters and would be shooters that pretty much says the same thing that I’ve been saying for years. The post mainly focuses on would be shooter Dillon Cossey…

    His parents supplied him with real weapons — though no ammo — to match his fantasies: His bedroom contained a .9 mm semiautomatic rifle, homemade grenades, knives and swords. He also had a swastika flag, neo-Nazi literature and a Columbine massacre video.

    Classmates would have rejected Cossey, if he’d stayed in school. They would have told Dillon he’s crazy, which would have been useful feedback. Instead, he was nurtured, accepted and loved by the world’s dopiest parents.

    While I fully support homeschooling, not every parent is capable of carrying it out. Such is the case of the Cosseys.

    And as I’ve been saying for many years lax parenting is the biggest cause of school shootings and not bullying. When parents teach their kids about some fantasy world where life is fair and allow their kids to continue to have obsessions with other killers and allow it to remain unchecked these shootings will keep happening.

  • More confirmation in Cossey/Auvinen link

    Teen who killed 8 may have contacted Pa. youth:

    There’s been more confirmation that Dillon Cossey was in fact in contact with Pekka-Eric Auvinen prior to the shooting that killed 8 at Jokela High School in Finland.

    Police said material seized from the computer of Pekka-Eric Auvinen suggests the 18-year-old communicated online with Dillon Cossey, 14, who was arrested in October for allegedly preparing a possible attack at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School in suburban Philadelphia.

    I doubt this will result in any additional charges for Cossey as he claims that Auvinen gave no indication that he planned the shooting.

  • Cossey/Auvinen link confirmed

    Teen charged with Plymouth plot communicated with Finnish shooter:

    No this isn’t a repeat. The link between Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen and would be school shooter Dillon Cossey has been confirmed.

    “He recognized the screen name and recalled having contact by email,” said J. David Farrell, who represents Cossey, 14, of Plymouth Valley.

    Farrell said Cossey was “very distressed” to learn that Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, of Tuusula, Finland, had gunned down six students, a nurse and the principal at his high school, located about 30 miles north of Helsinki. Auvinen then killed himself.

    Cossey told Farrell that Auvinen “gave no indication he was going to do anything violent,” and that Cossey “offered nothing in the way of encouragement” to pursue violence.

    The teens shared an interest in a video game called “Hitman,” Farrell said, adding that they may have also had a mutual obsession with Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the students responsible for the Columbine massacre.

    Farrell said he believed more information about the time and extent of the communication would be available tomorrow.

    When these mutants congregate they share ideas and encourage each other to commit these acts of violence. For years I’ve been trying to get website hosts to shut these kinds of groups down. They haven’t listened yet. I wonder if they will now. Maybe it’s time to re-start my crusade. Who’s with me?

  • Mutant MySpace connection

    The cyber school for killers:

    According to the article not only were Dillon Cossey and Pekka-Eric Auvinen YouTube buddies but it seems they belonged to the same pro-Columbine groups on MySpace.

    Police do not believe this to have been a coincidence. The two youths are thought to have made contact over two MySpace groups, “RIP Eric and Dylan” — a reference to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 12 schoolmates at Columbine — and “Natural Selection”.

    And people wonder why I think that sites like MySpace and YouTube need to shut down what basically amounts to hate groups.

    But like I’ve said before MySpace and YouTube wouldn’t have to if parents just paid better attention to their kids.

    Speaking of parents…

    Auvinen’s parents are regarded as somewhat bohemian in the small dormitory township of Jokela. His father plays part-time in a jazz band and composes his own music; Auvinen’s mother is an activist for the Greens. They are regarded as stalwart members of the community and neighbours describe them as a “normal family”.

    I’ll let you draw your own conclusions on that one.

  • MutantTube

    Finnish killer subscribed to jailed US youth’s webpage:

    Well, well, well. It seems that mutant loser and coward Pekka-Eric Auvinen was YouTube buddies with another mutant loser mentioned in these pages, Dillon Cosey. Cossey was the homeschooled kid who was arrested for plotting an attack against Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School outside of Philly.

    Cossey’s YouTube page is still standing in all its mutant “glory” while Auvinen’s was pulled. I guess it takes a mass murder for YouTube to pull someone’s killer worshiping videos.

    YouTuber Warned of Finnish Gunman in June, But No One Listened:

    In other Jokela related YouTube news, a YouTuber by the handle of TheAmazingAtheist was concerned about Auvinen’s and other YouTube profiles.

    But months before the fateful video was posted, one prolific YouTube user known as TheAmazingAtheist called for the police to investigate Auvinen and others who had been posting videos glorifying the Columbine shooters and Timothy McVeigh, saying they were showing warning signs of being more than simply infatuated or interested in violence.

    While his intentions were good my question is did he actually contact authorities or someone at YouTube or did he just complain about it on YouTube?

    First, it was AOL, then LiveJournal, then MySpace. Now YouTube is the prominent breeding ground for mutants.

  • Dillon Cossey admits to plot

    Teen Confesses To Columbine-Style Attack Plot:

    14-year-old Dillon Cossey admitted to plotting an attack against Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School in court yesterday. He could be held in juvenile detention as long as seven years.

    The judge who he appeared before had some words for his parents as well…

    Dillon Cossey will receive regular evaluations by the Judge Paul Tressler.

    “I’m going to make it clear to you and your parents, if you get to the point where you’re ready to get home, but they’re not worthy of having you, I’ll send you somewhere else” such as to a relative or foster home, Tressler told Cossey.

    Cossey’s parents are facing charges of helping him amass his weapons cache.

    It also seems that Cossey was a mutant of the highest order…

    The District Attorney said the teen idolized the two teens in the Columbine shooting, going so far as to nickname one of his own guns “Reb” after Eric Harris.

    All of this going in under a roof where he was allegedly homeschooled.

  • Cossey charged as juvenile

    Pa. DA won’t seek to move student arsenal case to adult court:

    Dillon Cossey, the 14-year-old accused of plotting an attack against Plymouth Whitemarsh High School, will not be tried as an adult. Montgomery County DA Bruce Castor had this to say…

    Cossey “suffers from severe emotional and psychiatric disabilities which I believe the juvenile court is in the best position to address,” Castor wrote to Judge Paul Tressler. “I find that he is likely amenable to treatment and supervision by juvenile authorities.”

    I have no problem with Cossey being tried as a juvenile. His parents, on the other hand, should have the book thrown at them. They’re the ones who provided him with the most lethal weapons of his arsenal, to begin with. For parents that were allegedly homeschooling their kid, they don’t seem too bright.

  • Dillon Cossey in court

    Plymouth Teen Appears In Court:

    Dillon Cossey, the homeschooled kid from Pa. who allegedly was plotting an attack against a high school, appeared in court today. Usually, I only blog about court appearances that have noteworthy outcomes. In this one Cossey was ordered to undergo psychological analysis which I usually don’t find interesting until the results come back. However, the prosecutors said something that caught my interest.

    Montgomery County prosecutors said that Cossey said other students had harassed him when he attended schools in the Colonial School District up to a year and a half ago.

    A year and a half ago? Jeez, kid, you should have let it go? I mean wasn’t that the whole point of being homeschooled?

    It’s still undetermined whether or not Cossey will be tried as an adult.