Plea Deal Offered in Newtown Harassment Case

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Plea Deal Offered in Newtown Harassment Case

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Mar 11, 2016, 2:48 PM ET

A man accused of harassing relatives of a teacher who died in the Newtown school massacre has been given an April deadline to accept a plea agreement or go to trial.

Matthew Mills is accused of approaching a younger sister of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School teacher Victoria Soto and angrily claiming the Connecticut shootings never took place.

Soto was killed along with five other educators and 20 children inside the elementary school building on Dec. 14, 2012.

Mills did not appear for the hearing Friday in Bridgeport. He is charged with interfering with police and breach of peace for his actions at a road race honoring Soto.

Prosecutors have offered Mills a suspended sentence with probation. He would also have to stay away from the Soto family.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/plea-deal-offered-newtown-harassment-case-37585406

[WhiteTara]

1. He didn't bother to show up.

That seems to show how much he is interested in the plea deal.

[deathrind]

2. Good.

I have read about several instances of people harassing family members of the victims from the Newtown massacre claiming the shooting never happened, that the incident was fabricated in order to advance firearm control legislation. The first time I read about this I thought it was just bad satire from The Onion or Funny or Die. But realized quickly that it was not. That there are people who really believe it did not happen.

SMH

[Punkingal]

4. That is the ultimate in craziness.

[SCantiGOP]

3. Hope the bastard goes to trial

I can't imagine a jury giving him any leeway at all.

[lapislzi]

5. These people (deniers) turn me into a raving lunatic

I stop being a rational human being when I encounter an article or post claiming the shootings never took place--especially as many of these articles SPECIFICALLY name my friend and co-worker. I can produce 30 eyewitnesses who were eating breakfast with him that morning.

When I encounter a denier I feel a moral obligation to defend my friend, whom we (my co workers and myself) try hard to shield from this stuff.

There is a special circle of hell for Mills and his ilk. My only regret is that I can't design it myself.