UPDATE: Mom Charged After 5-Year Old Shot; Agrees to Plea Deal
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Updated: 10:58 AM Aug 9, 2011
UPDATE: Mom Charged After 5-Year Old Shot; Agrees to Plea Deal
A 22-year-old mother is in jail after her 5-year-old daughter was accidentally shot in the foot with a loaded AK-47 found under a sofa.
Posted: 12:09 PM Jan 1, 2010
Reporter: WSAZ News Staff, The Associated Press
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UPDATE 8/8/11 @ 10:57 a.m.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - A plea deal for a 23-year-old mom who was arrested after police say her 5-year-old daughter was accidentally shot in the foot with a loaded AK-47 found under a sofa.

Brittany Briers pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor domestic battery during a hearing in Cabell County Circuit Court Tuesday morning.

Judge Alfred Ferguson then sentenced Briers to her six months and one in jail, but suspended the sentence to 18 months probation.

Following the incident police said the child was treated and released for the foot wound.

Briers was originally charged with felony child neglect resulting in injury.


ORIGINAL STORY 1/10/10
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - A 22-year-old mother is in jail after
her 5-year-old daughter was accidentally shot in the foot with a
loaded AK-47 found under a sofa.

Huntington Police Sgt. J. Williams says the girl was treated Thursday night and released. He said the girl and her 2-year-old sibling found the military style weapon under the family room sofa.

Brittany R. Briers was being held Friday in the Western Regional Jail on a charge of felony child neglect resulting in injury.

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Posted by: To Jenny "Bang" on Jan 7, 2010 at 08:49 PM

Thanks for doing us all a favor and signing off. By the way while you are on here trying to defend the fact that you skipped spelling and english class why you were engaging in teenage pregnancy practices yourself. Who's watching your children why you are online trying to defend your nonspelling or do you have your dudes AK47 on the dresser instead of under the couch where your children can reach it also? Love, Mother Teresa
Posted by: Jenny on Jan 7, 2010 at 04:46 PM

Jenny is signing off America! Im glad I could bother you all so much that you get back online just to see what was said. I've really got to go I've contacted my 7th grade teacher and he's willing to give me some spelling lessons in his free time. Maybe while I'm at it I can do some research on BREEDS and learn to be a good mother maybe like your mothers breed she seems to have done a great job! Actions speak louder than words and one day America you'll see that I can spell! Well have fun talking about me and everyone else that has nothing to do with the article your on! Smile Brittany you look like s***!
Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 7, 2010 at 01:17 PM

It happens everywhere but for such a small town to have so much violence and drugs is a shame. Who is to blame? We could all point our fingers in so many different directions and to so many people. The Chief of Police, The Mayor and several other city officials should be held responsible for a lot of what happens. It is their duty to protect and serve and they don't. They protect each other and thats a well known fact. It's a shame that the children here have to grown up in a place with limited opportunity, resources, and in a way sheltered from what the world around them and what it has to offer. Keep up the good works guys before you know it your dying town will be dead.
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