CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago mother was accused with danger to the child gun in her second a schoolboy’s backpack accidentally ran out of power at schooldamaging 7-yearis an old classmate, police said on Wednesday.
28-year- an old woman appeared in court on Wednesday on three offenses that pose a threat to the child are counted. The judge ordered her release from the Cook County Jail. on bail $1,000.
During the hearing prosecutors it was claimed that a woman 8-year-old son found in gun under her bed and took This is Walt Disney’s Magnet School. on in citynorth side on Tuesday. mother holds a valid firearm owner’s ID card.
According to police, the backpack was in boy class when, just until 10 am on Tuesday, gun discharged. Chicago Sun-Times reported that prosecutors said during the trial that the bullet ricocheted off in floor and hit the baby’s belly. The child was taken to the hospital in good condition, police said.
In an email to parents, the principal of the school said bullet “caused some fragments ricochet in your child’s class, which hit member of our school community and caused small scratches. The school did not respond to a request. for comment on Wednesday.
The teacher then grabbed the backpack and gave it to security personnel. who found Glock 19 pistol inside, prosecutors said during the trial.
The woman’s lawyer, Roger Clark, admitted that gun should were blocked up and no just placed under the bed. But he said, “It’s not something she planned or something she did. on of his own accord.”
Cook County Judge Michael Hogan was not impressed with this argument.
“It may not have been a deliberate act, but it is an act of the utmost carelessness,” he said.
He continued: “We are inches away, perhaps centimeters, from a very different case and a very different tragedy.”
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