The mother of a school shooter was convicted of manslaughter. What does this mean for other cases? | CBC News LoadedA Michigan mother could face up to 60 years in prison after a jury convicted her on Tuesday on four counts of involuntary manslaughter, after her teenage son killed four students in a school shooting in 2021.Jennifer Crumbley leaves the Oakland County courtroom in Pontiac, Mich., after being found guilty on four counts of involuntary manslaughter on Feb. 6.
"I have a problem with the legal concept of parents causing their children to commit crimes by being bad parents," he said. "That's what I think this case represents and that's the dangerous part." Prosecutors also said she and her husband knew Ethan was mentally in a "downward spiral" and posed a danger to others, yet allowed him access to firearms, including the nine-millimetre pistol they purchased as his Christmas present and that was used to kill his classmates.
"Whenever rip a community apart, some prosecutor might want to stand up and say, 'This is my way of fighting back in a country where we don't have other legal tools to push back against school shootings,'" Yankah said.Josh Horwitz, co-director of the Center for Gun Violence Solutions, part of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Md.
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