Friday 19 August 2022 07:52 PM Should daycare owner go to jail for shooting 'child molester' husband? trends now

The young Washington DC prosecutor determined to put a daycare owner behind bars for shooting her alleged child molester husband in the neck and leg can be revealed today by DailyMail.com as public outrage over the case grows. 

LaVater Massie-Banks, 29, is the Assistant US Attorney who is leading the case against Shanteari Weems, a 50-year-old daycare owner now facing 10 years in prison for shooting her husband. 

On July 21, Shanteari drove from her home in Randallstown, Maryland, to the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Washington DC to confront her husband, retired Baltimore cop James Weems Jr. 

She had just been told by one of the mothers of the children she looks after that James had been sexually abusing the child. 

Now, she is being held in custody on charges of aggravated assault with a weapon. If convicted, she faces up to ten years behind bars. 

She and James have been married for just five years, and her adult children say the allegations against him ruin their mother's 20 plus year career in childcare.  

Massie-Banks thinks she deserves to be sent down. The 29-year-old prosecutor was working in Florida until recently. 

In March, she helped send a homeless man to prison for nine years after he robbed one store and tried to rob another.  

In a recent court hearing, Massie-Banks said of the daycare owner: 'Yes, her husband was accused of molesting children and could be why this event occurred,' Massie-Banks said at a recent hearing. 

She then read aloud Shanteari's notebook. 

'The first line on the note is, "I’m on my way to shoot James. I don’t intend to kill him. I intend to paralyze him.’ And that is exactly what happened. He was shot in his neck and his leg.'

July 21 was the second time Shanteari had heard

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