TEXAS — A family of five from Broger, Texas, who joined in on the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. to challenge the results of the 2020 election, was sentenced in court Wednesday.

According to court memos from a CNN report, the Munn family was among the first to storm the Capitol building, entering through a shattered window and passing through the crypt and visitor center, then going into a Senate conference room. The United States Department of Justice’s case entry files for the Munns shows all family members were charged with the same offenses: knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.

CNN said D.C. Chief Judge Beryl Howell scolded parents Dawn and Thomas Munn for involving their four out of eight children — three adults, one minor — in their plan to seek answers in Washington.

Thomas Munn went to social media before the Capitol attack to rally together others to join him in D.C. for Jan. 6. During the attack, many social media posts made by the Munns placed them at the Capitol that day.

Before sentencing began, the Munns explained their intent to visit Washington was to ensure the security of the 2020 election. Dawn and Thomas said, in short, that they wanted to speak out after certain news events and find proof of a fair election. Howell, after hearing their remarks, said that violence was not a justified response.

Citing a CNN article, “These were fighting words that only contributed to the misinformation about January 6,” Howell said in reference to some of their posts.

Dawn and Thomas were sentenced to 14 days in jail, while their adult children, Kayli, Joshua and Kristi, received probation and home confinement, according to the DOJ. The oldest, Kristi Munn, a mother of three, got 90 days of home detention in addition to probation. Howell felt that she had enough sound judgment as a mother to part ways from the criminal activity at the Capitol on Jan. 6, said a CNN report.

According to CNN, when addressing the court, Kristi said she wished she had slowed down and wants her siblings to have better guidance.

Dawn was given the hot seat by Howell, seeing that she, as a nurse, “forced” her physically disabled son, Joshua Munn, to charge the Capitol. CNN stated Joshua suffered an unnamed ailment as a kid that resulted in temporary paralysis for an unknown time frame.

Howell stressed the point in that the parents are accountable for being greater examples for their children.