They aren't going to hold the parents reponsible...amusing, they should at least hold them responsible for not imparting some kind of common sense into the kid. We had a kid here locally that fell off of a roof, after watching Harry Potter and thinking they could fly on a broom (I guess - the details were hazy). At first there was a bit of an outcry, but the parents bought the kid the video and the kid was home alone, and charges were almost pressed against the parents. These kinds of cases, yeah, the kid is just asking for it, but it's obvious the parents didn't teach them things like "jumping off of a roof is stupid" and "fire is hot and burns you", etc.
Bad thing, Lieberman or another liberal will use things like this to justify their rants against movies, guns, etc. when it's clear the blame lies in either the kid being an idiot or the parents being idiots, or a combo of both.