{"id":25066,"date":"2023-04-10T22:45:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T02:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=25066"},"modified":"2023-04-10T22:45:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T02:45:49","slug":"mother-of-pupil-6-who-shot-virginia-teacher-in-classroom-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/04\/10\/mother-of-pupil-6-who-shot-virginia-teacher-in-classroom-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of pupil, 6, who shot Virginia teacher in classroom charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mother of a six-year-old boy who shot and wounded a Virginia schoolteacher has been charged in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Deja Taylor was indicted by a Virginia grand jury on charges of felony child neglect and misdemeanour of recklessly leaving a loaded firearm so as to endanger a child, according to prosecutor Howard Gwynn.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher Abby Zwerner, 25,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/boy-6-shoots-teacher-during-altercation-inside-classroom-in-virginia-us-12781491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>was shot in the hand and chest<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on 6 January at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, following an alleged altercation inside a classroom.<\/p>\n<p>She was left critically injured and spent almost two weeks in hospital, undergoing four operations.<\/p>\n<p>Last month she described her recovery as &#8220;exhausting&#8221;, and told Sky News&#8217; US partner network NBC News how she struggled to get out of bed and was unable to fully use her left hand.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher subsequently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/virginia-teacher-shot-by-six-year-old-pupil-sues-school-for-ignoring-warning-signs-12849691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>filed a $40m (\u00a332m) lawsuit<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0against the school.<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Sky News\" width=\"100\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/mother-of-pupil-6-who-shot-virginia-teacher-in-classroom-charged-12854765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The mother of a six-year-old boy who shot and wounded a Virginia schoolteacher has been charged in connection with the incident. Deja Taylor was indicted by a Virginia grand jury on charges of felony child <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/04\/10\/mother-of-pupil-6-who-shot-virginia-teacher-in-classroom-charged\/\" title=\"Mother of pupil, 6, who shot Virginia teacher in classroom charged\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[9315,9336,9054,2317,309],"class_list":{"0":"post-25066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-usa","9":"tag-abigail-zwerner","10":"tag-deja-taylor","11":"tag-richneck-elementary-school","12":"tag-school-shooting","13":"tag-virginia","14":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25069,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25066\/revisions\/25069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}