Dejah Taylor, the mother of a 6-year-old boy, was sentenced to two years in prison in December after pleading guilty to felony child abandonment. Previously, she pleaded guilty to using marijuana while possessing a firearm and making false statements about drug use, and she was sentenced to 21 months in prison. Parker's decision comes on the same day that two Michigan parents were sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for failing to prevent their son from killing four of his classmates in the worst school shooting in Michigan history. An indictment was also made public.
The former assistant principal who resigned in the wake of the mass shooting at Rich Neck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, is among several named as defendants in a lawsuit filed last year by Abigail Zwirner, the teacher who was seriously injured on Jan. 6. is one of the school staff members. , 2023, a boy pulls out her gun and fires at her during an afternoon class. One bullet passed through Zwerner's hand and struck her in the chest.
The lawsuit, which seeks $40 million, says the boy has a “history of indiscriminate violence,” including attacks on students and teachers, which all the defendants were well aware of, and that he will not be allowed to participate in the 2021-2022 school year. was expelled from kindergarten. It was after he strangled and suffocated his teacher. ” He was cleared to return in the fall of 2022, but with an altered schedule that required one of his parents to accompany him to school, but on the day of the shooting his parents were also present. did not exist.
Teachers' concerns about his behavior were regularly brought to the attention of school administrators, but were “consistently dismissed,” according to the civil suit. On the morning of the shooting, Zwirner told Parker that the boy was in a “violent mood” and had threatened to hit the younger child, but Parker “didn't respond in any way,” according to the complaint. That's what it means.
According to the complaint, Zwerner suspected the boy had a weapon during recess and alerted two other school employees. One of them searched the boy's backpack and found nothing, and after recess, one of them told Mr. Parker that although they found nothing, the boy claimed he had a gun and that the boy had searched the boy's backpack. Zwerner said he saw her take something out of the box. Backpack, the civil litigation attorney said.