Prosecutor files felony charges in teen shooting

Such a horrible tragedy. My heart goes out to all involved, Including Molly and her little boy and Leonard,s family. I am glad it wasn't worse and that they can all just try to move on to the future and not dwell in the past. God will guide them.

What does anyone want to bet that the prosecutor drops the charges below a felony before this is all over? Again we have a weak prosecutor that everything is pleaded down...save time from actually having to work at prosecuting someone.

Did they take the child from the mother?

Idahoclover - Perhaps you should visit the Idaho Judiciary site and search Ms. McFaddens arrest and conviction records. It is apparent to me that she has no business whatsoever of even having custody of her child. She is an irresponsible, law-breaking repeat offender. I shudder to think of what that poor 5 year olds home life is really like. I hope that the state has or is going to remove him from the home immediately before anything more can happen to him.

Retirementcanbefun - I will see your bet and raise you that Ms. Schindele not only drops the charges below a felony, Ms. McFadden will walk with nothing more than some fines and maybe a suspended sentence.

bearhunter- I have seen, and most are not even a result of her (negligence) ie, child support cases, etc. The things she has done wrong DO NOT warrant loss of her child. There is nothing wrong with her "home life" as you put it and you know absolutely nothing of any of the circumstance involving any of her offenses.

There is something seriously wrong with a parent when their 5 year old has access to a loaded gun. Period. It is called irresponsibility. It is apparent to this reader that parents WERE NOT there, the gun was accessible and the 5 year old was not being watched. PERIOD.

Petit theft is called STEALING. Period. Multiple traffic citations, no insurance is called irresponsibility. Period. If this parent cannot conduct her life any better than this, than she has no business being a parent. Which pretty much shows why a 5 year old is out, on his own, with a loaded weapon, almost killing an innocent kid.

Idahoclover - there is something very seriously wrong with their home life. Will it take another tragedy to prove that??????

No insurance? Read it more closely, failure to provide, and was dismissed due to having shown proof that insurance was, indeed, had. Yes, stealing is wrong, but again, there were numerous factors which you do not know about and therefore should not and cannot possibly make an informed decision about her right to have children. The multiple traffic citations... before she had the children and once again, circumstances and she learned her lesson. Clean driving record for years now. As for the guns ownership, registered to his ex-wife.

And Bazookaman,I can gaurantee you that you DO NOT

"know the "circumstances" of THIS one".

Idahoclover, I am not going to get into an argument with you or go back and forth with what she did or didn't do. I don't CARE who the gun belonged to. Not even an issue here. The issue at hand is that the mother of a young son was neglegent in that she ALLOWED someone to bring a gun into her home. I guarantee you that a 5 year old knows nothing about how to load a gun so the owner or the mother was responsible in the fact that it was in the house AND loaded AND out where NO ONE was watching it. Or him. Where was she when all of this happened?? Where was the boyfriend when this happened??

As for her record, perhaps you need to read a little more in depth. She has been arrested AND found guilty 4 times for petit theft. She served jail time all four times, twice AFTER she had her son. The last petit theft arrest was just last year. Where was he during all of this? Home alone? With her? And you don't consider that negligence? If that isn't negligence, I don't know what is.

As for the rest of the charges, she has been found guilty on most everything else. Speeding, driving without insurance, etc. is BREAKING THE LAW. Responsible parenting means you DON'T BREAK LAWS, I don't care how minor you think they are.

The fact is, she is an irresponsible parent. Parents don't go out and steal. The circumstances surrounding the cases that I "don't know anything about" mean nothing to me. She committed a crime, used taxpayers money to have a public defender and was found guilty. Period. Please don't try and justify her actions. No one cares.

If this happened to your son and you almost lost him because of someone elses stupidity, I daresay you would be as sympathetic as you are now.

bearhunter, it did happen to me, guilty was NOT the verdict, and it ws her money not hte taxpayers that payed for defense and whatever. If there were more ignorant people in the world like you, well, thank God there are other life-sustaining planets. Goodday.