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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA mom is accused of buying ammunition and tactical gear for her son, despite repeated warnings about violent plans at sc
schoolWarning signs that a San Antonio middle school student had deadly intentions had been building for months, police say. They took on a new urgency Sunday when his grandmother walked into his bedroom.
There, she found rifle and pistol magazines loaded with live ammunition and a homemade explosive, according to a court document.
The following morning, while the boys mother took him to school, the grandmother called the police.
The mother, Ashley Pardo, 33, was arrested Monday and charged with aiding in the commission of terrorism. Authorities allege she provided her son with ammunition and tactical gear as payment for babysitting his younger siblings.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mom-accused-buying-ammunition-tactical-005825548.html
NRA's mom of the year.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,706 posts)Krazy_Kat
(119 posts)Are they still around? For years they've been warning about jack-booted thugs, and now that they are actually here, crickets!
Ping Tung
(4,370 posts)haele
(15,599 posts)But that appears to be one really troubled and self-medicating mom.
Thank goodness for grandma at least having enough sense of self-preservation to report the boy when she found out what was going on.
Walleye
(45,478 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,990 posts)The end result if the kid carried out his plan: 1) Killed by police or self-inflicted; or 2) Next 20 to life in prison. Either way, she'd lose her son. Again, who does this? Jesus.
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