Friday’s sentencing was the second time Deja Taylor was held to account for the classroom shooting, which stunned the nation and shook the military shipbuilding city of Newport News.
The mother of a 6-year-old who shot his teacher in Virginia was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for felony child neglect, nearly a year after her son used her gun to critically wound the educator.
The state sentence she received Friday from Circuit Judge Christopher Papile was stiffer than what is called for in state sentencing guidelines and harsher than a joint sentencing recommendation of six months that prosecutors and Taylor’s lawyers had agreed to in a plea deal.
Taylor was sentenced in November to 21 months in federal prison for using marijuana while owning a gun, which is illegal under US law.
The combination of her state and federal sentences amounts to a total punishment of nearly four years behind bars.
Taylor’s son told authorities he got his mother’s 9mm handgun by climbing onto a drawer to reach the top of a dresser, where the firearm was in his mom’s purse.
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