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Judge sentences mother of Virginia school shooter to 2 years, exceeding prosecution requestNEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The mother of the 6-year-old student who shot his first-grade teacher at Richneck Elementary School was sentenced Friday to two years behind bars on a state child neglect charge — on top of the 21 month federal sentence she already received. Judge Christopher Papile handed down the sentence against Deja Nicole Taylor after an hourlong sentencing hearing in Newport News Circuit Court, greatly exceeding the six months that prosecutors had requested under Taylor’s plea agreement. Though …

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