Additional tragic element # 1: There are younger children as well.
Additional tragic element # 2: A high school jock doesn't need his mom to run the "party house" in order to be popular.
Odds are the judge will let one of the parents off with probation. If the judge is sexist, it will be the mother. If the judge is pragmatic, it will be the father.
Meanwhile, the parents of the dead teens probably need to spend some time looking in the mirror.
Thanks for the additional information.
Trying to be the cool mom is an empty, dangerous pursuit that I have seen several times. Luckily no dead kids in the ones I’ve witnessed, but broken marriages and one woman now raising her grandchildren because her daughters grew up in the “party house” and have addiction problems. In another, a well-to-do wife who seemed to have it all, busted having sex and doing weed with one of her teenage son’s friends.