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Mom Convicted After Posting to Facebook
May 2, 2016 at 19:39
Although she later claimed that she wanted to gather information about the rumor, Alvarez instead ignited a community-wide panic.
A New Mexico mom's controversial Facebook post has landed her in some serious trouble — and the offending status is much worse than an embarrassing selfie. The Roswell resident wrote online about a possible school shooting attempt, instead of sharing the information with the police. "Anyone else's kids go to Sierra?" Jeanette Garza Alvarez asked on Facebook several weeks ago. "My son says some 8th graders are planning on bringing guns to school maybe Monday and have a shootout to see who's the first to die." Although she later claimed that she wanted to gather information about the rumor, Alvarez instead ignited a community-wide panic. The status caused 160 students to skip class that Monday, ...
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