Give a hand
Posted on 10/15/2014 1:54:47 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The mother of a 17-year-old boy was charged Wednesday with allowing him to take a loaded handgun to school.
Leah Wilcken, 41, faces four misdemeanor counts, each carrying a potential penalty of a year in jail and a $1,000 fine, the city attorney's office said.
Prosecutors said that in May, the woman's 17-year-old son brought a loaded .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun and a spare magazine containing seven bullets to Will Rogers High School in Van Nuys.
"He was in a dispute with another student and had made posting on social media" calling on the student to meet him in the school parking lot, city attorney's spokesman Frank Mateljan said.
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Back in the early 1960’s the kids on the West Side would just dance and sing when doing a rumble.
Charge them both. And Dad, too.
if they allow girls as young as 13 to leave school to go get abortions, then 17yos should be held accountable...
If the young man made it to age 17 without having committed a crime, then I think there is little evidence of "permissive parenting".
Imagine the message it sends to the peers of the 17-year-old to have people blaming the parents for the actions of a person who is within months of being an adult for practically all purposes?
“There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend, those with loaded guns and those who do the digging.”
RIP, Eli Wallach.
City Attorney Mike Fuehrer?
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