2024-04-13 17:12:04
In a case with a strong impact on USAthe parents of a teenager who carried out a fatal shooting at a school in the state of Michigan They were sentenced to sentences of 10 to 15 years d prison e prison.
Jennifer Crumbley, 46 years old, and his husband James, 47, are the first parents to go to jail for involuntary manslaughter because of their son’s actions.
County Judge Cheryl Matthews Oakland He sentenced them to “10 to 15 years in prison” each.
His son Ethan, now 17, was tried as an adult and sentenced to life in prison in December for the events of November 30, 2021, when he killed four students and injured seven people at the high school. Oxford High School, 70 kilometers north of Detroit.
“Parents are not expected to be fortune tellers,” Matthews said during the sentencing in Pontiac, Michigan, attended by family members of the victims.
The judge reproached James Crumbley allowing his son “unrestricted access” to guns and ammunition and told Jennifer Crumbley that his attitude was “apathetic and indifferent.”
“Our son’s blood is on your hands,” he told the two defendants. Craig Shilling, father of one of the victims, Justin Shilling, 17 years old.
Amid a rising wave of gun incidents involving young people in the US, pressure is mounting to punish parents who make it possible for their children to access a gun.
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