A motherwhose two year old son has shot fatally at home at four year old sister with a gun left unattendedwas sentenced tolife imprisonment. Marianne Belair24 years old, will not be able to benefit from the probation until he has served his time 25 years of sentenceinflicted today by Shawnee County District Courtin Kansas.
Belair testified at her trial that she had a loaded 9mm pistol removed from a diaper bag and to have put it on sofa next to her in October while he was at home with the four year old daughter, Lawrence Perez-BelairThe two year old son and the one year old daughter. The woman said she had planned to go get food with her family and was making sure she had everything she needed in her bag. Lawrencia then allegedly distracted her by asking her to take a picture with the mobile phone of the two of them together. But in the meantime, as she revealed to the jurors Deputy District Attorney Lauren Amrein, the gun remained on the couch for at least 12 minutes before the son of Belairwhich he was about to accomplish three yearstook it and he shot his sister. “No reasonable person would have left the gun there for that long in the presence of small children,” the prosecutor stressed.