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Tag: school shooting plot

  • Fry Cook Sentenced

    Teen in Connetquot bombing plot sentenced:

    The 15-year-old Long Island McDonald’s fry cook who pleaded guilty to charges of plotting an attack against Connetquot High School was sentenced yesterday. The unnamed teen was given 1 year in the nut hut…I mean an ‘undisclosed therapeutic facility’. He was also given credit for the time he’s already served.

    I haven’t heard anything yet about his cohort being sentenced. That would be 17-year-old Michael McDonough. I’d be surprised if he gets more than probation.

  • 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.

  • Newington plotter pleads

    Student Accepts Plea Deal In School Violence Plot Case:

    It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything on the plot to attack Newington High School. The suspect in the plot, 17-year-old Frank Fechteler, pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree threatening and two felony counts of manufacturing bombs. The plea avoids a life sentence for Fechteler. He’s now looking at a max of 12-years. The suggested sentence seems a little confusing to me.

    In agreeing to plead guilty to first-degree threatening and two felony counts of manufacturing bombs, 17-year-old Frank Fechteler now faces a maximum 12-year prison sentence that will be suspended after four years, followed by five years of probation.

    So really is he looking at 4-years behind bars and 5 years probation? I’m a little rusty on court math.

  • Tobin Kerns sentenced

    Teen convicted of massacre plot gets 10 months in jail:

    Tobin Kerns has been sentenced to 10 months behind bars with five months time served for his alleged part in a plot to attack Marshfield High School in Massachusetts. For the first time in my blogging career, I actually mean alleged because it was never proven to my satisfaction that he had an active role in the plot. Unfortunately, I’m not the judge in the case and I think Judge Louis Coffin has been blinded by politics. Like I’ve said numerous times before when discussing the Marshfield plot I think there is definitely some chicanery going on considering that the other suspect in this plot is Joe Nee, the son of the head of the Boston police union. His trial is scheduled to start on Jan 30th. Since Tobin was sentenced to 10 months Joe Nee should be sentenced to 10 years. In my opinion, it’s his fault that Tobin has to spend even a day in jail since I consider him the actual mastermind behind the plot. In my opinion he turned Tobin in to deflect blame from himself. As usual, you can see my previous postings on this in the archives.

    The fact that Tobin has to spend even one day in jail is a travesty of justice.

  • 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.

  • Michele Cossey released

    Mother released on bail after charged with buying weapons for son:

    Michele Cossey, the mother of Dillon Cossey, has been released on bail. She was charged with buying a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9-millimeter semiautomatic rifle for her son. Dillon Cossey was arrested for plotting an armed attack against Plymouth Whitemarsh High School in Pennsylvania.

    Investigators said in court papers that the mother bought the rifle, which had a laser scope, at a gun show in September and provided police with a receipt.

    A laser scope? Nice. Way to make sure your kid has deadly accuracy.

    Luckily Dillon Cossey was never in possession of any ammunition.