Mother pleads guilty to child neglect after six-year-old son shoots teacher

Students return to Richneck Elementary in Newport News, Virginia (Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)

The mother of a six-year-old who shot his teacher in Virginia has pleaded guilty to child neglect, seven months after her son used her handgun to critically wound the educator in a classroom full of students.

Prosecutors agreed to drop the misdemeanour charge of reckless storage of a firearm against Deja Taylor.