Posted on 02/08/2024 12:03:58 PM PST by CFW
A mother has been found legally responsible for her son's crimes. Jennifer Crumbley was found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter after her son, Ethan, took a gun to school and shot up his classmates, killing four of them. This is the first time that a parent has been held directly responsible for the crimes of their minor child. Mrs. Crumbley may have been a bad mom, of which there are many across the US. She's the first mom ever in the US to be convicted for her child's crime in this way.
Does the verdict against her spell trouble for the bad moms of all the teen killers in the United States? Prosecutors in the Michigan case claimed that Mrs. Crumbley did not prevent her 15-year-old son from harming others. Moms of violent 15-year-olds across the country can for sure relate. Her son Ethan is in prison for the rest of his life and now she faces 60 years in prison, essentially a death sentence for the middle-aged mom, for his crimes.
The verdict sets a shocking precedent for the parents of violence-prone children. Will all parents who have violent children be held accountable for that violence? Will only the parents of school shooters be held accountable? Or perhaps only the white parents of school shooters from basic middle-class families whose parents should know enough to take them to therapy?
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Children aged 15 are legally able, in many states, to obtain abortions, birth control, prescriptions, sex change drugs, medical care, without parental consent or awareness. Teens are given personal responsibility for countless actions, yet when it comes to this teen and this mom, she is meant to be personally accountable for his actions by failing to take actions prosecutors now claim would have helped Ethan.
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If the parents are stupid enough to arm their under age kids up without supervision they need to be locked up
How about: Joe is responsible for Hunter’s illegal gun activity?
The young boys of America are constantly exposed to a universe of games, TV shows and Movies that inject a torrent of murder and butchery deep into the souls of these children. This content, germinating deep within the psyche of these kids will bear fruit. The millionaire writers and directors of this filth fill their coffers with their blood money, and escape to their idyllic hideaways as you wail in horror at your loss. What can be done? Is there any hope? Tell me.
And if this was applied to our peoples of color mommas,that race card would thrown immediately.
The hallmark of any police State worth its salt.
Hunter is an adult.
Individual DAs will decide. Grand juries
Only white moms get charged.
What about parents of violent gang members?
Parents of drug users/dealers?
Exactly. This woman was found guilty of being poor white trash. I hope she can get some help for an appeal.
Just for white moms.
Heartbreaking. No one would help her with her crazy son. This is how it is these days. A parent knows about a crazy son. No help to be had. What these crazy sons need is to be confined somewhere and treated in a facility, but there are no treatment facilities to be had. The families are left to be contend with these time bombs on their own with no help. Then when something happens, the families go to jail. Sick.
Did she own a horse? I didn’t follow the story that close. When my daughter was young, she took up equestrian at a local barn. She fell in love with a horse. I was heavily lobbied by the wife and child to buy it. It was going to be expensive. I dragged my feet. Fortunately the horse died from the croup. Phew.
Did she own a horse? I didn’t follow the story that close. When my daughter was young, she took up equestrian at a local barn. She fell in love with a horse. I was heavily lobbied by the wife and child to buy it. It was going to be expensive. I dragged my feet. Fortunately the horse died from the croup. Phew.
Tis parent was pretty bad and should probably be charged in a sane world but the inevitable use of the precedent to charge parents who just happen to be parents of a bad kid makes it worrisome.
Actually, yse. He knew about them, accepted the rakeoff from them and came to serve foreign masters due to them.
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