This is not any easy call. I wouldn’t want to be on that jury. According to the article, the mom gave the kid a gun. But how? And why? The article is short on details.
Let’s say some stupid parent lets a too young (and rather unstable) kid drive. The kid takes the car on his own one day, and deliberately runs over and kills a pedestrian. Is the parent guilty of involuntary manslaughter?
I don’t want hear hypothetical examples that were legal items used wrongly compared to a deadly weapon given to a kid. It doesn’t work that way. Kids aren’t supposed to have deadly weapons. Period. If you don’t know that be ready to face prison