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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas woman planted a gun in boy's backpack and then called school officials to 'teach him a lesson'
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/31/1340661/-Texas-woman-planted-a-gun-in-boy-s-backpack-and-then-called-school-officials-to-teach-him-a-lesson?detail=email
byJen Hayden
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This is a woman in need of some serious help. Heather Hodges didn't get along with her boyfriend's 13-year-old son and "wanted to teach him a lesson":
So she took her boyfriends 9-millimeter Smith and Wesson handgun, replaced the childs cologne and deodorant in his backpack, and then called Magnolia Junior High School from a nearby payphone to report him by name.
The poor kid was placed in a juvenile detention facility while school officials asked for an investigator from the Sheriff's office:
Retired MCSO investigator Mike Price said this was an important move, because of his experience as an interrogator, since it took multiple interviews to get Hodges to open up about what happened and her motives.
FULL story at link.
Hosts this is not a gun story. It is a WTF was she thinking post.
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Texas woman planted a gun in boy's backpack and then called school officials to 'teach him a lesson' (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Nov 2014
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Jenoch
(7,720 posts)1. I don't know what she can be charged with,
other than endangering a child, but the prosecutors ned to charge her with anything they can think of. She needs to do some jail time and pay a fine. She also needs to be dumped by her boyfriend.
Edit to add: She was sentenced to three years in prison. The child now lives in another state with his mother.
csziggy
(34,131 posts)4. She's now been sentenced for "unlawful carrying of a weapon on restricted premises"
Woman sentenced to 3 years in TDCJ for planting gun in childs backpack, reporting him to school
Posted: Friday, October 31, 2014 3:50 pm | Updated: 3:59 pm, Fri Oct 31, 2014.
By Brandon K. Scott
A 28-year-old woman was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for planting a pistol in a childs backpack and anonymously reporting him to the school.
Heather Hodges, who pleaded guilty to unlawful carrying of a weapon on restricted premises in exchange for the dismissal of two lesser charges, was the live-in girlfriend of the boys father but they had struggled as a blended family.
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District Court Judge Kelly Case echoed lead prosecutor Vince Santinis statement that Hodges was evil, and said he thought it was ironic how Hodges motivation was wanting to protect her children.
McKeegan was eventually taken from school to the Montgomery Countys juvenile detention facility until Hodges confessed days later, after multiple interviews with investigators.
He no longer lives with his father and has since moved to Louisiana to stay with his mother.
More: http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/courier/news/woman-sentenced-to-years-in-tdcj-for-planting-gun-in/article_549f53bb-3ad5-5060-847f-109ed7904930.html
Posted: Friday, October 31, 2014 3:50 pm | Updated: 3:59 pm, Fri Oct 31, 2014.
By Brandon K. Scott
A 28-year-old woman was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for planting a pistol in a childs backpack and anonymously reporting him to the school.
Heather Hodges, who pleaded guilty to unlawful carrying of a weapon on restricted premises in exchange for the dismissal of two lesser charges, was the live-in girlfriend of the boys father but they had struggled as a blended family.
<SNIP>
District Court Judge Kelly Case echoed lead prosecutor Vince Santinis statement that Hodges was evil, and said he thought it was ironic how Hodges motivation was wanting to protect her children.
McKeegan was eventually taken from school to the Montgomery Countys juvenile detention facility until Hodges confessed days later, after multiple interviews with investigators.
He no longer lives with his father and has since moved to Louisiana to stay with his mother.
More: http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/courier/news/woman-sentenced-to-years-in-tdcj-for-planting-gun-in/article_549f53bb-3ad5-5060-847f-109ed7904930.html
True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)2. "Texas parenting."
Initech
(100,027 posts)3. Who was this woman trying to be? J. Walter Weatherman?
dsc
(52,147 posts)5. I don't think three years is enough
the fact is this kid could have been sent to an adult jail for decades because of her stunt. She is a disgusting piece of filth.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)6. I don't either. But on the other hand she is pretty
stinky.