>Makes no sense in the context of the sentence (mother - teen)
I makes sense, it's just worded somewhat poorly. There are three sets of parents here... the teens, the teen-females parents, and the teen-males parents.
The teen-male had the permission of the teen-female to wollop her with a bat. He did no have his moms, or her moms, permission to do so. And it woudln't matter anyway... while teen-female can give legal permission to teen-male to beat the crap out of her, teen-females-mom cannot give that permission, anymore than I can give permission to let someone beat the crap out of *you*.
All in all, though, this is pretty messed up. Straight to Springer with these nuts....
Somewhat poorly? Man, I think I found out who is teaching in journalism schools.
If the teens are parents, they are guilty of murder. The whole abortion argument is a farce on its face if abortionists can call these teenagers parents. I am surprised that even a journalism major can't see that.