Oh Come Now Judge–It MUST’VE Been Dad’s Fault, Think a Little Harder…

Someone needs to straighten the judge in the Dillon Cossey case out. The 14-year-old boy apparently planned a Columbine-style attack on a local school. Dillon Cossey apparently wasn’t too close to carrying out the plan–for one, he didn’t have ammunition. But the case’s real shocker is this–Montgomery County Judge Paul Tressler put some of the blame for the boy’s pathology on the boy’s mother.

According to news reports, the judge criticized her for creating an “unhealthy relationship” with her son, and for instilling in him a “me and mom against the world” attitude. Tressler said, “This kid has been so totally desocialized, he has no friends.” Looking directly at Michele Cossey, he said: “You want this kid dependent on you? Go buy a dog, go buy a pet.”

I’m floored–normally we fall all over ourselves to figure out how somehow it’s never mom’s fault. The men in black robes do it as much as anybody. At best, we usually get the “it’s really mom’s fault but that’s not PC, so we’re going to pretend it’s ‘both’ parents’ fault.” In this case the boy’s dad is no prize, either, but the judge was willing to tell the truth as he saw it.

Of course, perhaps the judge’s reaction is understated–after all, the mother apparently helped the boy build his weapons stash by buying him a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and the 9 mm semiautomatic rifle.  Wow.

The mother is awaiting trial, where she can expect to receive a punishment a fraction as severe as she would if she were a man. The story is below. Thanks to Jay, a reader, for pointing it out.

Judge blames mom in school attack case
Thursday, December 20, 2007

By KATHY MATHESON
Associated Press Writer

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy who admitted that he planned a Columbine-style attack on a suburban Philadelphia high school was sentenced Wednesday to up to seven years in a juvenile treatment center.

Dillon Cossey will remain at the western Pennsylvania facility until he turns 21, unless the courts deem he has been sufficiently rehabilitated before then, Montgomery County Judge Paul Tressler ruled.

The boy apologized in court for amassing a cache of weapons and plotting the assault on Plymouth Whitemarsh High School. Authorities do not think Cossey was close to pulling it off; he had no ammunition.

“I am very sorry, but I do want to get help,” Cossey told the judge. “I also hope that me and my family as a whole can get help.”

Tressler placed much of the blame for Cossey’s troubles on his mother, Michele Cossey. He criticized her for doting on Dillon to the point of creating an “unhealthy relationship” with her son, and for instilling in him a “me and mom against the world” attitude.

“This kid has been so totally desocialized, he has no friends,” Tressler said.

Looking directly at Michele Cossey, he said: “You want this kid dependent on you? Go buy a dog, go buy a pet.”

Dillon Cossey was home-schooled and last attended public school in the seventh grade. He told a friend that he wanted to pull off an attack similar to the 1999 assault on Columbine High School in Colorado because “the world would be better off without bullies,” according to prosecutors.

The friend then told authorities, who searched Cossey’s Plymouth Township home on Oct. 11. They found a 9 mm rifle, about 30 air-powered guns modeled to look like higher-powered weapons, swords, knives, a bomb-making book, videos of the Columbine attack and violence-filled notebooks. Dillon Cossey testified Wednesday that he had been saving the guns for target practice.

The boy admitted in juvenile court Oct. 26 that he committed three felonies — criminal solicitation, risking a catastrophe and possession of an instrument of crime.

Authorities have accused Michele Cossey of helping him build his weapons stash. She is awaiting trial on charges of illegally buying her son a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and the 9 mm semiautomatic rifle.

Read the full article here.

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