Dec 19, 2007 6:30 pm US/Eastern
Boy Behind Columbine-Style Plot Sentenced
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (CBS) ―
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Dillon Cossey was sentenced to up to seven years in a juvenile treatment facility on Dec. 19, 2007.
AP
During a sentencing hearing Wednesday, a judge issued a stinging criticism to
the parents of a 14-year-old teen who admitted to plotting an attack on a Montgomery
County high school.
In a Montgomery County courtroom, Judge Paul Tressler told
the parents of home-schooled teen Dillon Cossey that if he is ever to change
his ways they must also change their own.
Cossey was apologetic as he was sentenced to up to seven years at a treatment in a western Pennsylvania
facility.
After expressing his wishes to go home for the holidays, Judge Tressler
said, "You'll go home when you've convinced me you're ready and your parents
have convinced me they are ready."
The teen was taken into custody in October after a friend notified
authorities of a possible attack on Plymouth
Whitemarsh High School.
After a search of his Plymouth Township
home, authorities located dozens of weapons, including a 9mm rifle, various
knives and air-powered guns.
Notebooks filled with violent imagery, books on how to make bombs and videos
of from the 1999 Columbine attack were also found in the residence of the
home-schooled teen.
The teen's mother, 46-year-old Michele Cossey, was charged with endangering
the welfare of a child, unlawful transfer of a firearm, possession of a firearm
by a minor and two misdemeanors after allegedly purchasing weapons for her son.
Judge
Tressler confronted the teen's mother in court, placing blame on her and
her husband saying in part, "If you want a kid dependent on you, go buy a pet,
go buy a dog."
Dillon Cossey will be held in a Montgomery
County youth center until he is
transferred to western Pennsylvania. His family will have no contact with him for three months.
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