The story isn't very clear about what she's charged with. Child endangerment or neglect is possible.
Jeff
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Mother is arrested over firearms in school
By William Lamb
Of the Post-Dispatch
02/27/2004
The mother of 11- and 12-year-old brothers who sneaked a semiautomatic pistol and five bullets into Clark Middle School in East St. Louis on Wednesday may be charged in the incident, East St. Louis police said Thursday.
Meanwhile, authorities continued to search for a 15-year-old boy who they said brought a loaded semiautomatic pistol to East St. Louis Senior High School, at 4901 State Street, on Wednesday and threatened to shoot a teacher with it.
The incident, which prompted a lockdown that lasted nearly two hours, was reported at 8:15 a.m., about fifteen minutes before officers were dispatched to Clark, at 3310 State.
Authorities said the mother refused to come to the East St. Louis police station when authorities called her to tell her that her sons had been detained, Deputy Police Chief Rudy McIntosh said Wednesday. The 11-year-old was found clutching an unloaded .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol. His older brother was carrying the bullets.
"She just said she wasn't coming because it would teach them a lesson," Deputy Police Chief Rudy McIntosh said T
hursday. "But the bottom line is, she's liable. She's responsible for her sons."
McIntosh dispatched a squad car to the woman's house, where she was arrested. He added that police would seek to charge her but that it was not clear what the charges would be. The woman and her two sons, whom police have declined to identify, were released on Wednesday pending the filing of formal charges.
At Clark Middle School Thursday, teachers took turns guarding a side entrance to the cafeteria that administrators now believe the boys may have used to sneak the gun into the school, the principal, Ethel Shanklin said. Two security guards keep watch over metal detectors at the school's main entrance, she said.
East St. Louis Schools Superintendent Nate Anderson could not be reached for comment Thursday.
Reporter William Lamb
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 618-235-6142
Jeff
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...ne=Mother+is+arrested+over+firearms+in+school
Mother is arrested over firearms in school
By William Lamb
Of the Post-Dispatch
02/27/2004
The mother of 11- and 12-year-old brothers who sneaked a semiautomatic pistol and five bullets into Clark Middle School in East St. Louis on Wednesday may be charged in the incident, East St. Louis police said Thursday.
Meanwhile, authorities continued to search for a 15-year-old boy who they said brought a loaded semiautomatic pistol to East St. Louis Senior High School, at 4901 State Street, on Wednesday and threatened to shoot a teacher with it.
The incident, which prompted a lockdown that lasted nearly two hours, was reported at 8:15 a.m., about fifteen minutes before officers were dispatched to Clark, at 3310 State.
Authorities said the mother refused to come to the East St. Louis police station when authorities called her to tell her that her sons had been detained, Deputy Police Chief Rudy McIntosh said Wednesday. The 11-year-old was found clutching an unloaded .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol. His older brother was carrying the bullets.
"She just said she wasn't coming because it would teach them a lesson," Deputy Police Chief Rudy McIntosh said T
hursday. "But the bottom line is, she's liable. She's responsible for her sons."
McIntosh dispatched a squad car to the woman's house, where she was arrested. He added that police would seek to charge her but that it was not clear what the charges would be. The woman and her two sons, whom police have declined to identify, were released on Wednesday pending the filing of formal charges.
At Clark Middle School Thursday, teachers took turns guarding a side entrance to the cafeteria that administrators now believe the boys may have used to sneak the gun into the school, the principal, Ethel Shanklin said. Two security guards keep watch over metal detectors at the school's main entrance, she said.
East St. Louis Schools Superintendent Nate Anderson could not be reached for comment Thursday.
Reporter William Lamb
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 618-235-6142
"Put that gun away or I'll give you detention"