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groundloop

(11,521 posts) Tue Apr 9, 2024, 11:41 AM Apr 9

Jennifer and James Crumbley, parents of Michigan school shooter, to be sentenced Tuesday for manslaughter

Source: ABC News

Jennifer and James Crumbley, the parents of Oxford High School mass shooter Ethan Crumbley, are set to be sentenced Tuesday after each was found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter in separate trials earlier this year.

The trials were a rare case of parents facing criminal charges, and possible jail time, over their role in a shooting carried out by their child. They could face up to 15 years in prison for each count, but prosecutors are asking for 10 to 15 years total for each parent, according to a sentencing memo filed by prosecutors last week.

"No sentence this Court can administer will fix the damage caused by the Oxford High School shooting on November 30, 2021," prosecutors wrote in requesting the sentence for Jennifer Crumbley. "As the jury found, defendant's gross negligence was a cause of this damage; she knew of the danger to another, it was reasonably foreseeable her son would shoot someone, but she failed to exercise even the smallest measure of ordinary care."

Michigan's sentencing guidelines call for a maximum punishment of about seven years in jail, a sentence prosecutors say is not strong enough.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/jennifer-james-crumbley-parents-michigan-school-shooter-sentenced/story?id=108900929

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Jennifer and James Crumbley, parents of Michigan school shooter, to be sentenced Tuesday for manslaughter (Original Post) groundloop Apr 9 OP

I can't imagine them, while sitting in a cell for fifteen years, thinking about giving their defective spawn Aristus Apr 9 #1

I like the idea of holding parents responsible... Think. Again. Apr 9 #2

It is about time to quit excusing their kids shooting others Stargazer99 Apr 9 #3

She is apologizing for something she dosen't think she is responsible for. Srkdqltr Apr 9 #4

I hope it is a strong sentence that sends a messge to parents that they MUST be liberalla Apr 9 #5

If the hadn't given him the gun. They would have not been blamed as much. Srkdqltr Apr 9 #6

Aristus

(66,446 posts)

1. I can't imagine them, while sitting in a cell for fifteen years, thinking about giving their defective spawn

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Tue Apr 9, 2024, 11:52 AM

Apr 9

an assault rifle, and thinking: "Yep. Totally worth it!"

Think. Again.

(8,363 posts)

2. I like the idea of holding parents responsible...

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Tue Apr 9, 2024, 11:55 AM

Apr 9

...for what the young people they are responsible for, are doing.

Stargazer99

(2,599 posts)

3. It is about time to quit excusing their kids shooting others

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Tue Apr 9, 2024, 11:56 AM

Apr 9

Srkdqltr

(6,315 posts)

4. She is apologizing for something she dosen't think she is responsible for.

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Tue Apr 9, 2024, 12:03 PM

Apr 9

The bottom line is they gifted the gun to the boy.

liberalla

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5. I hope it is a strong sentence that sends a messge to parents that they MUST be

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Tue Apr 9, 2024, 12:28 PM

Apr 9

more responsible in what they do for their child, and what they are teaching them.

I'm all for holding holding every person accountable when they recklessly or carelessly not secure their own guns, allowing a child to 'find' it and 'play' with it.

Srkdqltr

(6,315 posts)

6. If the hadn't given him the gun. They would have not been blamed as much.

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Tue Apr 9, 2024, 01:02 PM

Apr 9

They gave him the gun. It was his from them. And he used it because it was his and he could.

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