The mother of a U.S. Navy sailor charged with providing sensitive military information to China encouraged him to cooperate with a Chinese intelligence officer, telling her son it might help him get a job with the Chinese government someday, the prosecution said Tuesday.
Fuck that, put the mom in jail too. for being stupid and treasonous.
The actual bar for treason in the US is a very high one and she almost certainly does not meet it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_States
In popular discourse, people assert that something is treason in a vastly wider range of cases than where the law is really applicable.
Well, I learn something new everyday, Thanks!