The mom of the 6-year-old boy, Deja Taylor, was sentenced in December to 2 years in jail after pleading responsible to felony baby neglect. Earlier, she was sentenced to 21 months after pleading responsible to utilizing marijuana whereas proudly owning a firearm and making false statements about drug use. The indictment in opposition to Ms. Parker was additionally unsealed on the day that two mother and father in Michigan have been sentenced to 10 to fifteen years in jail for failing to stop their son from killing 4 fellow college students within the deadliest faculty taking pictures in that state’s historical past.
The previous assistant principal, who resigned after the taking pictures at Richneck Elementary College in Newport Information, Va., is amongst a number of faculty staff listed as defendants in a lawsuit filed final 12 months by the trainer, Abigail Zwerner, who was significantly injured on Jan. 6, 2023, when the boy pulled out the gun throughout the center of a day class, aimed it at her and fired. A single bullet handed by way of Ms. Zwerner’s hand and struck her chest.
In response to the go well with, which seeks $40 million, the boy had “a historical past of random violence,” together with assaults on college students and academics, with which all of the defendants have been acquainted, and had been faraway from kindergarten within the 2021-2022 faculty 12 months “after he strangled and choked a trainer.” He was allowed to return within the fall of 2022, however was positioned on a modified schedule, which required one among his mother and father to accompany him at college, although neither have been current on the day of the taking pictures.
Lecturers’ considerations together with his habits have been commonly delivered to the eye of college directors, however have been “at all times dismissed,” in accordance with the civil case. On the morning of the taking pictures, Ms. Zwerner instructed Ms. Parker that the boy was in a “violent temper” and had threatened to beat up a youthful baby, however Ms. Parker had “no response,” in accordance with the go well with.
Throughout recess, Ms. Zwerner turned suspicious that the boy might need a weapon, and knowledgeable two different faculty staff, in accordance with the go well with. One among them searched his backpack however didn’t discover something, and after recess, instructed Ms. Parker that, although she couldn’t discover something, the boy had claimed to have a gun, and that Ms. Zwerner had seen him take away one thing from his backpack, attorneys within the civil case mentioned.