Headline Of The Week Weak
"Prosecutor: Mom bought assault rifle for boy
The mother of a 14-year-old boy accused of planning a "Columbine-type" event at a high school was arrested Friday morning, prosecutors said."
Oh boy! CLICK HERE to read the article accompanying this headline.
[Image via WENN.]
Prosecutor: Mom bought assault rifle for boyProsecutor: Mom bought assault rifle for boy
The mother of a 14-year-old boy accused of planning a "Columbine-type" event at a high school was arrested Friday morning, prosecutors said.
Michele Cossey, 46, of Plymouth Meeting was charged with six criminal counts in connection with buying her son firearms and bomb-making equipment, including a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9mm semiautomatic rifle.
The charges are unlawful transfer of a fiream, possession of a firearm by a minor, corruption of a minor, endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of reckless endangerment.
A search of the boy's home Wednesday outside Philadelphia turned up the rifle, about 30 air-powered guns, swords, knives, a bomb-making book and videos of the 1999 Columbine High School attack.
Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor Jr. said the weapons were plainly visible in the boy's bedroom.
During a hearing Friday in juvenile court, a judge ruled authorities could continue to hold the teen during their investigation.
The judge also ordered psychiatric and educational achievement evaluations for the youth, who was taken into custody Wednesday night.
The teen was charged as a juvenile with solicitation to commit terror and other counts and was being held at a youth facility.
As Cossey sat sobbing in the courtroom before the hearing, Castor walked over to her and informed her that he had a warrant for her arrest. He told her to go after the hearing to his office on a lower floor of the courthouse, where the warrant was served.
Cossey is not alleged to have helped plot any attack, Castor said Thursday night.
"I don't see any evidence that leads me to conclude that she knew that this attack was planned or anything of that nature," Castor told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."
But he said he thinks charges against her are justified.
"I think you have a parent who has fallen down on the job in supervising the child, perhaps indulgent on the child because she knows he has issues," he said before her arrest.
Police also found seven hand grenades, four of them operational, said Joe Lawrence, deputy chief of the Plymouth Township police. The teenager said the two .22-caliber weapons were stored at a friend's house.
If the teen is found delinquent, he could face long-term detention and counseling. The boy's father also could face criminal charges pending an investigation, police said.
In addition to the weapons, authorities found a hand-painted Nazi flag and videos about the Columbine shootings, Castor said. Watch Castor explain why he is upset with the parents »
"It is my judgment that this individual considered that something to be glorified and was doing so," he said.
Two students opened fire at Columbine in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999. They killed 13 people and wounded 23 others before killing themselves.
School officials said police acted on a tip from a Plymouth Whitemarsh High School student and his father. They said they believe the tip was prompted by Wednesday's shooting at a school in Cleveland, Ohio, in which a 14-year-old killed himself after wounding two teachers and two other students.
In the Pennsylvania case, police say they received the tip at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and took the youth into custody at his home around 10. He was "nonchalant" when arrested, Lawrence said.
The grenades were made with plastic casings that authorities believe the boy bought on the Internet, Lawrence said. The operational hand grenades included black powder, BBs and a fuse believed used in fireworks. The boy was making the grenades in his bedroom, Lawrence said.
Police also found 30 weapons that fire BBs and the 9 mm semiautomatic rifle with a magazine that could hold 30 rounds of ammunition.
Castor said officials do not think others were involved.
"We have no information at this point that leads us to think this is other than an isolated individual who was trying to recruit others to help," he said.
"The boy who gave the tip was one who was trying to be recruited," he added. "He was a friend of the boy in the loosest terms."
Plymouth Whitemarsh High officials said the boy is not a student at the school.
"This was a youth in the community who has not been enrolled in school since spring of 2006," said Dave Sherman, spokesman for the school.
The public high school in Plymouth Meeting has 1,591 students in grades nine through 12. Classes were canceled because of the incident, school officials said Thursday.
Plymouth Township is about 15 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
She Needs Help
She Wants Every Penny!
Oh dear.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD TODAY!!!
1st. y use a pic of brit?
I like how you put that picture with the story. Moron.
sad…
yeah so that school is abt 5 minutes from where i grew up - sad stuff
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Isn't this pic of Britney leaving the courthouse? What does it have to do with this article?
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wow!!!! commendable parenting!!!!!!!! kudos to you, mom!!!
haha jive is suing perez's fat gay ass 4 leaking britney's songs illegal. I hope they take his money, his life, and his face and stuff em down the guter.
Britney is my inspiration. I too am a young mother of two small children.
When I question my parenting skills I just look to Brit and follow her example,
I could never be led astray. I look to Britney daily for strength and guidance.
I love her hair,I love her style, I love her music, I love her brown boots, I love Britney
and always will. BoGo the boots Brit.
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EVIL!
omg look at the amount of paparazzi! leave her alone!!
isn't this a picture of britney's car with all those stupid pumpkins in the windshield and hanging from the rear view mirror…what does this picture have to do with the shooting?
what does this have to do with britney???
Perez.. what does britneys plastic pumpkins and her car have to do with this story???
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Wow. Sick people Really Sick people out there.
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whats that got to do with britneys car pic up top?
"PEREZ HILTON GETS SUED FOR LEAKED BRITNEY SONGS BY JIVE RECORDS"
I'm so very happy…
You deserve so much, britney must be too proud of you!
45th!!!!
Stupid family!
And yall think Brit is bad!!! Please!!! What a whack Job!!
Who was actually bullying him at the school if he was homeschooled???????
Parents need to accept responsibility for their children. And for God's sake, don't buy them weapons!!
she might have done some things but using a picture of britney spears for something like this is wrong im quite disgusted by it to be fair
why dont these losers just kill themselves instead of taking everyone else out with them!
If you're trying to make a joke with the picture, it's falling flat as a pancake. Is this the sort of stunt you pull to distract people from the fact that all you do is recycle the news and pictures from other sites?
It always starts in the home- bad parenting takes lives! Oh and- FIRST!
Re: sunshine – because he's trying to make a connection with being a parent and how Brit is being a role model to her children … it's something Brit would do without thinking, buy her kids guns (???) … come on, make a connection
speechless
This is what happens when Republicans run the government. They were the ones that specifically supported sales of assault rifles and gun shows. Democrats want to give you health care. Republicans want to give you machine guns.
I'm not playing Devil's Advocate here, but technically he didn't DO anything. All he is guilty of is a thought crime. He didn't go into a school and start shooting, so how do they know he would have done it? Just because he owned some guns and videos doesn't prove anything. Are we heading into a Minority Report style society here? Will face-scanning technology combine with brain wave reading technology to detect if someone is THINKING about committing a crime? I hate the way we are heading…..
I seriously don't belive people on this comment list, are you guys that dumb!Perez put and example of all the paparazzi on britney, when they should be covering the shooting instead!
fock you bitsh you think you are beautiful ext.but you are ugly and you are a focking you are focking prostitute in every state you are you go to club`s and you take a boy then you focking!!!prostituteprostituteprostituteprostituteprostituteprostitute
Throw away the KEY!
Damn MoM! wOw what a really cool mom! ……………….nOt! the world is an evil place and the kid was allowed to feel the rage but his mother encouraged it! Stupid cunt should have her clit shaved off! Just another case of Stupid Mother and stupid child! LoL it sounds like something brit brit would do but i won't get into that!
maybe the reason there is a pic of brit's vehicle accompanying this article is because both this article and the picture have somethign in common. UNFIT PARENTS!!!!!
For those of you who can't figure out why Perez used the picture of Britney's car, let me explain: He is trying to point out that Brit and the mother in the article are two peas in a pod. A little more cerebral than usual this morning. Not bad.
And this is related to Hollywood Gossip how??? If I want mainstream news Perez I'll go to CNN.com!! Stick with what you do best!!
This reminds me entirely too much of the Kip boy who killed both of his parents and then went and shot up his school not that long ago. He had been obsessed with guns for years and his father thought that the best solution was to go out and buy him some guns… even against the best advice of the child's psychiatrist. Obsessions should NOT always be indulged and many behaviors should NOT be tolerated. Sometimes I wonder if there is any human decency left in this world.
Re: Maria – you are a fucking moron just like perez. I bet you are a big fat ugly lonely girl that sit's at home everyday on the computer, hanging off every story perez steal's from someone else. you are a fat whore. Please die because no one likes fat hateful slut's like you and perez. you make me sick. thinking you are better then everyone else when in reality you are a disgusting waste of life that should have been aborted before you could bring your ugly self into this world. your mother should be arrested for giving birth to the likes of you you fucking skanky ass swamp donkey looking whore
This happened about 10 minutes from me, this shit is scary. The kid didn't even attend the high school. He had decided to get home schooling in like '06 because of how bad the teasing and bullying had gotten.
WHAT NOT TO DO IF YOU ARE A PARENT
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BITCH SHOULD BE KILLED WITH THE SAME RIFFLE
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Re: Jenn –
Are you seriously that niave? If you knew a person was going to commit a crime, would you wait until it HAPPEND to do something? Even based on a SUSPICION, you don't just "WAIT" until something happens. That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. This is about PROTECTING PEOPLE. If you even so much as suspect a person is in danger, it should be looked into. "The way we are heading"? WAKE UP SISTER. We are heading to SAVE LIVES. Sure, the kid could be innocent (although I doubt that). But it's worth looking into, considering not many 14-year-olds have bombs and guns sprawled across their bedroom floors. Wouldn't you say?
Re: Jenn –
Have you seen the movie "Minority Report"? Talk about "Thought Police"…
But in this case, it's obvious that the boy was conspiring to commit murder (he tried to enlist some people to help, that's how they discovered his intentions).
As for the parents, we need to start thinking about mandatory sterilization.
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look at all of the fattfuckerz crowded around her car..the only
exercize papz get R puzhing their stubby fingerz on the camera
button..looze some freakin weight and get a damn life..our freakin
world iz falling apart here and theze fuckerz juzt lay in wait to
attack her..join the fucking army..U WANT TO ATTACK SOMEONE.
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The Britney pic is an ad, you fucking idiots.
Ok first all of, if that kid is smart enough to be making bombs in his bedroom, He should not be charged as a juvenile. Clearly, he knows what he is doing!
Re: ROLEMODEL **** –
What's a 'Riffle'? It sounds harmless.
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NICE PIC PEREZ OF BRITNEY LEAVING THE COURT HOUSE WHICH HAS NOTHING TO WITH THIS STORY. KINDA TASTELESS DON'T YOU THINK? PEREZ IS JUST MAD BECAUSE BRITNEY'S LABEL JUST SLAPPED HIM WITH A LAWSUIT FOR LEAKING JUST ABOUT ALL HER SONGS ON THIS SITE WITHOUT PERMISSION. KARMA IS A B**** AND EVERYBODY IS ABOUT TO GET SERVED.
This is 20 mins from my house. Its very very scary
Re: sya – Where'd you grow up?
Re: sya – Where'd you grow up?
Re: sya – Where'd you grow up?
I live about 30 minutes from where this happened. The kid is 5'9", 300 lbs and is home schooled, so its really f-ed up that he was going to attack a school full of kids that he didn't even know. A relative was on the local news and said that they were storing ADDITIONAL guns for the family. What the F%^&k was his mother thinking? She bought him an asault rifle at a gun show in Valley Forge a few weeks ago - who the hell buys their kid an ASSAULT rifle. Jesus- people should have to have training/psych screening/licensing or something before they're allowed to have kids. Its scary to think that we're all at the mercy of crazy f-ers like this.
You are just giving Britney more fuel to add to her lawsuit against you, you stupid douche.
I hope she nails your little twinkie to the wall, you twit.
You are just giving Britney more fuel to add to her lawsuit against you, you stupid douche.
I hope she nails your little twinkie to the wall, you twit.
You are just giving Britney more fuel to add to her lawsuit against you, you stupid douche.
I hope she nails your little twinkie to the wall, you twit.
You are just giving Britney more fuel to add to her lawsuit against you, you stupid douche.
I hope she nails your little twinkie to the wall, you twit.
You are just giving Britney more fuel to add to her lawsuit against you, you stupid douche.
I hope she nails your little twinkie to the wall, you twit.
You are just giving Britney more fuel to add to her lawsuit against you, you stupid douche.
I hope she nails your little twinkie to the wall, you twit.
You are just giving Britney more fuel to add to her lawsuit against you, you stupid douche.
I hope she nails your little twinkie to the wall, you twit.
You are just giving Britney more fuel to add to her lawsuit against you, you stupid douche.
I hope she nails your little twinkie to the wall, you twit.
You are just giving Britney more fuel to add to her lawsuit against you, you stupid douche.
I hope she nails your little twinkie to the wall, you twit.
Re: Jenn – you are an idiot! go study the law and tell me that idiotic phrase again. fucking idiot" the thought of commiting a crime is still a crime" just like if the found a bank robber( who didnt rob the bank) with the intention it is still a crime! what are like a moron with a jr high education
Re: FAT ASS – your just mad cause you dont have any common sense!
Britney has nothing to do with the story, quit putting her picture for stuff like that. You are a no good asshole Perez. You are nothing and can't do anything right. I mean look you are getting sued for leaking some of her unfinished songs…you should've known that was illegal in the first place. Give it up!
i don't find the humor in the picture of britney here… and i don't think anyone else does. good one!
Perez, if you hate Britney so much why do you keep posting stuff about her???
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH KIDS TODAY?! GO PLAY MANHUNT, OR EVEN NON EDUCATIONAL VIDEO GAMES TILL YOU FRY YOUR BRAINS OUT!!!! GO PLAY WITH BARBIES!!!!! BE NORMALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry Jenn, but it all starts with just a thought…. Unfortunately, we do not stop enough school shootings while they are still at this point. Instead we realize after-the-fact that there may have been signs to prevent many deaths from occuring. For example, this week's shooting in Cleveland, several students expressed concerns but the principle never made time to meet with them. Wish she would have taken the time to listen while it was just a thought.
What is wrong with people? How can someone so carelessly take lives? it makes me f-ing sick. Guess what everyone gets bullied, DEAL WITH IT! dont go shoot a bunch of people! p.s. People are being f-ing murdered in SCHOOLS and your talking about Britney? Hmmm.
plymouth whitemarsh is not even 10 minutes away from my house!! that mother should be put in jail that sick freak!
Thank god this child and his mother were brought into custody before anything serious happened! What the hell was the mother thinking giving her son those kind of weapons?!?
Re: MICHELLE – Re: MICHELLE –
dont you mean what is wrong with America? the fact that you can buy weapons as easily as you can a carton of milk says a lot about the country! you are a seriously screwed up nation!!
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Why is there a photo of Britney in her car with this story ??? Moron.
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i live about 10 mins from the school. its really scary to think that a 14 year old kid could get his hands on these weapons.
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–i love you perez
What the hell does Britney have to do with this you fucktard!?!?! Get over her!!! Pendejo!!!!!!!!!!
TOO BIG TO READ…IS THERE A SHORTER VERSION OF THIS??
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wait… I DON'T CARE! =)
hellllo, dumbass - she was buying him grenades and assault rifles, but didn't know what he was planning? someone was raised on the Stupid Farm.
Why the hell did you put a picture of Britneys car? Your such a asshole. The way you talk about people….remember, karma is a bitch.
Your website is an entertainment gossip website (proven by the comments/drawings you make on (quasi?) celebrety photos) This is NOT entertainment and giving these people publicity only encourages them. They want the notariaty so don't give it to them! You're only contributing to the problem airing this story.
am i going crazy or is that britneys mercedes….what does she have anything to do with the story….get off of her clit, damn….i've never saw a person claim to hate someone but discuss them every time you turn around
Oh I get it, brit's picture is on there because that is the type of mom she is going to be! lol NICE PEREZ!
This is 5 minutes from my home. Very scary. I know a lot of kids that go to that school VERY BIG DEAL here in Philly.
My neice goes to that school. This really hit home. What kind of mother would be such an IDIOT?
The moment I saw the headline, before I even read the rest of it…I thought…this stuff happens here in PA all the time. And SURE ENOUGH…after reading the whole article…YEP…PENNSYLVANIA….home of redneck hunters.
Adults buy weapons for children here ALL the time because they teach them how to shoot and hunt animals when they are VERY young here….I think it's disgusting, and young people generally don't have the maturity that the adults seem to think they have. I don't think most of the parents around here lock up the weapons when not in use here either!!
It is a recipe for disaster.
I'll bet if they did house to house searches around here, that kid would hardly be a blip on the radar compared to the weapons of destruction they would probably find in most kids' rooms around PA.
it's those philadelphians !!!! j/k im from philly , but its the parents with all the money who give their kids whatever they want to shut them up and close them out of their lives … this workd is getting bad
"Prosecutor: Mom bought weapons for boy". Weapons, not "assult rifle".
Same as the rest of the media Perez, distort things and go with the buzz word that grabs attention and pours gas on the fire. She bought a semi automatic rifle. Perfectly legal in the state of PA, and perfectly legal for the son to use under her supervision. Don't know if it's legal to have in the house due to the father's legal issues.
What the hell is wrong with kids these days? Semi automatic firearms have been available to the general public for over 100 years. 25 years ago in rural PA kids could take their deer rifle to school with them and leave it in their locker so they could hit the woods right after school during deer season. I grew up in a home where shotguns, handguns, and (gasp!) assult rifles were readily available. I was taught how to respect and how to use them, and was free to go out in the back yard and plink when ever I wanted (ah, the joys of rural life). What has gone wrong with kids over the past 15 years? Their grandparents had much greater access to firearms 50 years ago, but they weren't going into schools and shooting the hell outta things. Where did parents go wrong, and what outside influences have created the misfits we're dealing with today?
I love those little pumpkins in Brits car !adorable!She's still a little kid at heart and all the pap does is follow her around and bother her,and talk shiz about herThe world is crazy for this girl!
Perez: What has Britney's car and paps have to do with this horrible story.
Think you have lost it this time. Also, please stick with celebrity gossip.
WHY THE BRITNEY PIC BITCH?
GOD YOU ARE A FUCKING LOSER
SO HOW MUCH OF PEREZS TWINKIE MONEY WILL BRITNEYS LABEL TAKE
OFF PEREZS FATASS?