(HARTVILLE, Mo.) — A Missouri woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in the accidental shooting of her five-year-old son after he and his seven and three-year-old siblings were left home alone with two loaded guns out in the open.
Bobbie Jo Scott, of Hartville, was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to endangering the welfare of a child in the shooting of Timothy Deatherage.
Prosecutors say Scott and her boyfriend, Cory Gass, asked a neighbor to check on Timothy and his siblings in July while they went to pick up a paycheck.
The children were left alone with a loaded 12-guage shotgun and a .22-caliber rifle.
Wright Co. Sheriff Glenn Adler says the seven-year-old was handling the shotgun when it went off.
Gass is set to appear in court Jan. 25.
