Posted on 03/25/2024 7:51:05 PM PDT by Libloather
PONTIAC, Mich. — A jury on Thursday convicted James Crumbley of involuntary manslaughter in connection with his teenage son’s deadly school shooting in 2021, in step with his wife, who was found guilty last month on the same charge.
The jury's decision after about 10 hours of deliberations caps a landmark case that for the first time in the U.S. held the parents of a mass school shooter criminally responsible. James and Jennifer Crumbley’s son, Ethan, who was 15 when he opened fire at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit, pleaded guilty as an adult and was sentenced in December to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
"These were egregious facts in this case. These parents could have prevented this tragedy. It was foreseeable," Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said after the verdict.
"With just the smallest of efforts, they could have prevented this shooting and saved these kids’ lives," she said.
James Crumbley, 47, faces up to 15 years in prison per the four counts of involuntary manslaughter, each one representing a murdered student. Jennifer Crumbley, 45, will be sentenced in April.
Prosecutors said James Crumbley had bought Ethan a 9 mm Sig Sauer as a gift a day after Thanksgiving, at a difficult time in his son's life when he was struggling emotionally because his best friend had moved away. Crumbley is not accused of knowing about the attack beforehand, which his son had warned about in journal entries.
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Ah yes - but all the BLM parents get off scott free.
It took 10 hours of deliberation for the jury to decide?
Just like Hunter Xiden and Gyorgy Schwartz.
Not too much longer here in Tennessee. A bill for parental responsibility has been introduced in the legislature to hold parents accountable.
Liberal heads are exploding.
As a parent of an autistic child I would not take her to the range for fear she would shoot me, herself or somebody else.
The shotgun is out but unloaded, shells are in a quick access biometric safe so she can’t get to them.
In the case described here the parents knew the kid had problems so why buy him a pistol?
Would you sell or give a pistol to someone you knew or even suspected to be unqualified because of previous convictions or commitment? Of course you wouldn’t.
This is not good, next you will be putting parents in jail for not letting their kids transition, and when their kid commits suicide, they go to jail. The parents have to live with the shame and guilt, that they didn’t bring their kid up right. That’s enough.
I thought they were already doing that? 😀
Way to deflect. You might even have a point WHEN all the black parents are convicted for the truancy and crimes of THEIR children at the same levels of neglect.
But one group gets a pass based on the color of their skin and the other group gets the bool thrown at it.
So he was charged as an adult and the parents were charged because he was a kid. Got it.
This is not justice.
xlnt pick up
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