'Stop all the madness': Bryan Kohberger's mom Maryann blasted school shooters after Uvalde massacre
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: Maryann Kohberger, 62, the mother of the suspect Bryan Kohberger detained in relation to the Idaho murders, has openly voiced her objections to the death penalty, school shootings, and abortion in letters that were featured in a local paper.
Under the headline 'I pray we consider the children, before the gun,' Maryann wrote in a letter to the editor that appeared in The Pocono Record daily newspaper in March 2008, "I do not personally support abortion, and by all means, I do not support the death penalty. State-sanctified murder is still just that — murder." The primary suspect in the horrible killings of four students is her son. He traveled from Idaho to the Poconos over 2,000 miles before being arrested on Friday, December 30, as reported by Daily Mail.
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Maryann, a paraprofessional who instructs pupils under the direction of trained teachers, wrote another letter that was just published in June 2022 in which she discussed the shootings in Uvalde, Texas. "As I sat this morning, reeling from yet another school shooting, I found myself wrestling with which actions need to be taken to stop all the madness," she penned. "What is the answer? Gun control measures? Mental health intervention?" She added, "Then I received a message from my daughter who works as a mental health therapist in New Jersey. She shared a poem she had written, while in the greatest depths of despair. It shook me to my core, and I felt the need to share it:" The poem by Melissa Kohberger, 31 reads, 'Bereft of their laughter There is now not a sound As we lower our children into the ground Small hands and feet
Buried six feet deep into the earth of the world that failed them.'
Another one of Maryann's letters from 2008 had a headline that reads "I pray we consider the children, before the gun." According to several stories that Fox 3 found, Maryann Kohberger, Bryan Kohberger's mother, has published at least two letters to the editor of the Pocono Record. She is a member of the school board as well.
Bryan, 28, was taken into custody on Saturday, December 31 at his parents' Scranton, Pennsylvania, residence and is accused of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary. On November 13, the bodies of Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were all discovered stabbed to death. Police also searched Bryan's home following the discovery of his DNA in the college student's residence, According to the authorities, Kohberger is a graduate student at Pullman, Washington State University in Idaho.
