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Sheriff Lott announces charges against multiple parents: Full video
News 19 WLTX via YouTube ^ | July 18, 2026 | News 19 WLTX Staff

Posted on 07/19/2026 2:06:12 PM PDT by thecodont

Richland County [SC] Sheriff Leon Lott Friday said he'd charged several parents in connection with crimes involving their children.


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Related: RCSD: 3 more Richland County parents charged under Parental Accountability Initiative https://www.wistv.com/2026/07/17/rcsd-3-more-richland-county-parents-charged-under-parental-accountability-initiative/
1 posted on 07/19/2026 2:06:12 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

Does this have to do with those “Teen Takeovers” of streets and shopping malls by black teenagers making problems for everybody?


2 posted on 07/19/2026 2:16:37 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

Murder, drug dealing, etc.


3 posted on 07/19/2026 2:28:57 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: thecodont

4 posted on 07/19/2026 2:33:16 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: ETCM

I wonder, does the Parental Accountability Initiative https://www.wistv.com/2026/07/17/rcsd-3-more-richland-county-parents-charged-under-parental-accountability-initiative/ allow parents to be charged with murder and drug dealing along with their minor children? Does any parent accountability law anywhere allow that?


5 posted on 07/19/2026 2:34:04 PM PDT by desertsolitaire ("Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach.")
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To: thecodont

Does this include the mom who drove her son to where he made the hit?


6 posted on 07/19/2026 2:36:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: thecodont
Don't like the notion of person B being charged for an offense that person A does.

These perps doing crimes at night are not children having been left in an overheated car. They are aware of the law and chose to break it.

The parents and family get punished enough when their young perps go through the system.

Or do they?

Maybe they should FIRST try actually punishing the perp youths, instead of ascribing it to naivete and not enough Capri Suns and nurturing.

7 posted on 07/19/2026 2:43:01 PM PDT by caddie (Going forward we all need to become Trump, and also Captain Obvious, and Charlie Kirk too. )
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To: PROCON

Not many daddies among them, are there?


8 posted on 07/19/2026 2:44:47 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Flaming Conservative

I only see two so called fathers.


9 posted on 07/19/2026 2:46:29 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: lee martell

I hope so.


10 posted on 07/19/2026 2:46:43 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: thecodont

However, if you spank them or discipline them to what same Karen thinks is too much, expect to be called by Child Protective Services—maybe lose your kid to the hellhole of foster care.


11 posted on 07/19/2026 2:49:04 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The greatest power the media has is the power to ignore.)
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To: desertsolitaire

Hmmm…2 of the 12 are not like the others


12 posted on 07/19/2026 3:08:03 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: caddie

I think the part that gets me is that parents are not allowed to spank. Parents are not allowed to know if kids are getting abortions, hormones, BCP or castrating drugs. Kids are removed if parents try and help the kids understand that they can’t elect to be another sex. Parents are not allowed to know the results of 12 year old’s medical exam.
IMO the state has frayed and emasculated the parent child relationship, made kids impossible to guide, discipline or control. Now that same state wants to put parents in jail for criminal behavior by the kids. Catch 22 brought to us by the left. Destroy the family and the next generation in easy steps.
If a parent contributed to the crime, didn’t lock up a gun, provided drugs or alcohol, encouraged criminal behavior that’s a form of contributory negligence and there is culpability. Otherwise one person can never control another especially with school distorting morality and modeling destructive behavior and encouraging kids to lie and decieve parents.


13 posted on 07/19/2026 3:13:31 PM PDT by JayGalt (A never ending battle for Truth, Justice & the American Way.)
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To: thecodont

Kudos to Sheriff Lott and all of that administration taking this seriously.

Great video of his news announcement.


14 posted on 07/19/2026 3:17:45 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: No name given

“only see two so called fathers.”

Therein lies the problem.


15 posted on 07/19/2026 3:19:24 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: desertsolitaire

He announced one of the parents was charged with accessory to murder after the fact for helping her son cover up the crime and taking him out of town to treat a gunshot wound.


16 posted on 07/19/2026 3:31:15 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: PROCON

Thas Raciss!


17 posted on 07/19/2026 4:13:22 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (When your Supreme Leader is easily whacked by Jews, reconsider how Akhbar your Allah is!)
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To: BenLurkin

“Does this include the mom who drove her son to where he made the hit?”

Something like that happened at my wife’s work too. Mother drove son to kill someone.


18 posted on 07/19/2026 4:22:20 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: JayGalt

Well said,


19 posted on 07/19/2026 4:47:27 PM PDT by arthurus (l| covfeve |l m)
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To: JayGalt

Thank you! Yours is an excellent summary of this mess facing us today.


20 posted on 07/19/2026 5:11:53 PM PDT by jacquej (“You cannot have a conservative government with a liberal culture." (Mark Steyn))
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