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Oct. 15, 2019Des Moines, IA |  By: AP

Mother of 4-year-old shooting victim sentenced to probation

The mother of a 4-year-old boy who shot himself after finding an unsecured gun in her vehicle in Des Moines has been sentenced to a year of probation.

Polk County court records say 28-year-old Rachel Rowe also was fined $315 and given a deferred judgment. Under a deferred judgment, her conviction can be removed from her record if she were to successfully complete the terms of her probation. She'd pleaded guilty to allowing a child access to a loaded gun.

Kent Balduchi is Rowe's attorney, and says that she and her husband thought the gun was in a child-safe holster. It wasn't. The boy found the .45-caliber handgun May 29 inside another container in her vehicle and shot himself in an upper arm.