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October 12, 2007

Mother armed son in thwarted Pennsylvania shooting, prosecutors say

Prosecutors say the mother of the Pennsylvania high school student gave her son the guns and bomb making materials prior to the thwarted attempt.

Michele Cossey, 46, is accused of buying him a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle, a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle and black powder used to make grenades.

Cossey was charged today with unlawful transfer of a firearm, possession of a firearm by a minor, corruption of a minor, endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of reckless endangerment.

Read more about it here on CNN.com.

What kind of punishment – if any – do you feel she deserves, if she's found guilty?

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You may need to learn how to read. The mother that purchased these weapons did so for her son who had planned an attack in Pennsylvania. Not the attack in Cleveland. The Pennsylvania attack was thwarted. Even your link says as much.

And this is still up because......

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