Grandfather jailed for leaving 5-year-old with loaded gun in Arizona desert

A 54-year-old Arizona man was sentenced to six months in jail for child abuse for leaving his granddaughter, 5, in the desert with a loaded and cocked handgun with the instruction to “shoot any bad guys,” prosecutors said.

Paul Armand Rater pleaded guilty to one count of felony child abuse under a plea agreement stemming from the November, 2015, incident, county attorney Bill Montgomery said.

“There still has been no satisfactory explanation for why that happened,” said Mr Montgomery at a news conference.