A North Carolina mother and her boyfriend are facing charges of child abuse and assault with a deadly weapon after the couple made a routine of shooting her three children with a BB gun.
Officers say that the children of Jessica Pack, 31, were shot with a BB gun dozens of times over a period of three months by both her and her live-in boyfriend, 23-year-old Jackie Nanney.
Pack insists that she tried to prevent Nanney from shooting her kids, ages 4, 5, and 7. During her first court appearance she explained, “I tried to stop him, but he still wouldn’t.”
Officer Chris Reynolds countered her claim by saying Pack should be held responsible because she failed to contact authorities.
Nanney denied the accusations against him, “We’ll shoot cans. That’s all we shoot. I don’t shoot no kids. No shooting anybody’s going on. We’re just out there having fun.”
Officers point out that the welts and bruises all over the children’s bodies are evidence that cans were not the only targets being shot at.
The stepmother of Pack’s 13-year-old son, who was not one of the victims, expressed her disgust. “I wouldn’t imagine somebody touching a youngen, especially not shooting a BB gun at them,” said Mendy Payne.
Police said that the most disturbing thing about the situation was the fact that it appeared that the kids had been shot because Pack and Nanney thought it was amusing. ”Looks to be he was doing it for the fun of it,” said Reynolds. “It just became what appeared to be a pleasure for him of shooting individuals.”
He added, “They were hit in the bathroom, in the bathtub, outside playing and riding their bike. It was like fun and games for him.”
(Source: Gaston Gazette)
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