The 26-year-old mother of the then-six-year-old boy who shot his teacher at a Newport News, Virginia elementary school was sentenced to two years in prison, four times the six-month sentence prosecutors and the defense team had agreed to in the plea deal, ABC News reports.
In the plea agreement, Deja Taylor admitted she owned the gun and stored it in such a way that her son could access it, saying she kept the loaded gun in her purse on top of a dresser in her bedroom. She pleaded guilty to one count of felony neglect of a child, and she will serve her state sentence after she’s done serving her federal sentence for the “Hunter Biden Combo”: a 21-month sentence on separate federal convictions related to owning the gun while using drugs and lying about her marijuana use during a background check for the purchase of the weapon.