Trying to resurrect a macbook prob for charity

Perhaps to try & use the macOS Recovery instead of the old Snow Leopard DVD media

there may be better chance of resurrecting the 2012 MacBook Pro? That didn't ship with

Snow Leopard, so wouldn't hardly be able to boot or use disk utilities from it.

• About macOS Recovery on Intel-based Mac computers - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314

..or Maybe it could've started into Safe mode?

• What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your Mac - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065

The last step 8, mentioned in above says:

"Follow the steps to erase your Mac and reinstall macOS.

After macOS installation is complete, your Mac restarts to a setup

assistant. To leave the Mac in an out-of-box state, press Command-Q to

shut down instead of continuing setup."

If not the above, to see if you can return Mac OS back to original system,

some kinda work around may do; to get the mac to run a newer one.

You'd have to look online at Apple support site, to get downloadable

installers for any supported older systems that may run on the Mac.

• How to get old versions of macOS - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683

Good luck! ☺︎

10.8 is MOUNTAIN LION, 10.7 Lion will not run on that Mac, as your crash report shows.

On an Intel-based Mac, if you use Shift-Option-Command-R during startup, you're offered the macOS that came with your Mac, or the closest version still available.

from:

How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support

shipped with 10.8.1 according to MacTracker, so anything older will not work.

Any MacBook Pro 2011 or later has Internet Recovery in its ROM, and you can get it going that way.