Telling a 14 year old girl that she is free to attend parties where people do drugs and that she can stay out until 3 A.M. is tantamount telling her: "You have zero value to me and I don't much care if you live or die."
They should be prosecuted for neglect.
I agree - the girl was not culpable - but the parents certainly are.
Telling a 14 year old girl that she is free to attend parties where people do drugs and that she can stay out until 3 A.M. is tantamount telling her: "You have zero value to me and I don't much care if you live or die."
They should be prosecuted for neglect.
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Maybe the parents thought they were being tolerant and generous? From what I've heard of being a parent, it rips at their souls to see their child suffer.
Rules never made sense to me as a kid, especially since they seemed arbitrary. But if rules are explained in the context of love and protection, they would be easier to take.
Just because we can't prosecute the shooter? Yeah, I'm sure these parents haven't quite lost enough. They'll feel much worse in jail. That'll fix 'em, and sure be a lesson to... to... somebody...?
Yeesh.