Jackson, Wisconsin....

Sheriff investigators say that a 32-year-old woman was upset that her 9-year-old son had shot and killed a bird with his BB rifle, so she took the gun and told him he "needed to know how it feels" to be shot. "He began to run around in circles because it's harder to hit something that is moving," the investigation report says. The mother, who was not named to protect the identity of her son, fired but couldn't hit him, so she ordered him to stand still so she could shoot him in the chest. The boy was not seriously injured. When a sheriff deputy told her actions constituted child abuse, she replied, "Well, if you're going to arrest me, arrest me." He did: she has been charged with intentionally causing bodily harm to a child, a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

< 15 years in prison. Is there any possibility that a person should be at risk of losing 15 years of their life in a situation where a) no harm was done and b) they were carrying out their parental responsibility to teach a child not to kill shit randomly? The government here is absolutely as evil as it can be. >