NYPD: Mom put gun in 7-year-old's backpack
Photo credit: AP | The NYPD provided a photo of a .22 caliber semiautomatic handgun, top, and a flare gun which, police said, a 7-year-old Queens boy brought to school in his backpack. (Jan. 17, 2013)
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A Queens mother was arrested Friday after she admitted to police that she put a .22-caliber handgun, ammunition and a flare gun in the backpack her 7-year-old son took to his Far Rockaway school, officials said.
Deborah Farley, 53, of Far Rockaway, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, endangering the welfare of a child and other charges in the Thursday incident, which caused police...
