Could holding parents criminally responsible curb the country’s gun violence epidemic?
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Jennifer and James Crumbley were found guilty of manslaughter for a mass school shooting carried out by their son. Could parental accountability curb the U.S. gun violence epidemic? What else could parents be liable for?
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On Point is WBUR’s award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world.
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| 0:30.6 | This is on point. I'm Megnana Chocro Bardi. On November 30th, 2021, then 15-year-old |
| 0:38.1 | Ethan Crumbly fatally shot four students and injured seven others at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan. |
| 0:46.4 | In December of 2023, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. |
| 0:52.6 | Ethan Crumbly became the first minor |
| 0:55.1 | to receive an original life sentence without parole |
| 0:58.2 | following a 2012 Supreme Court ruling |
| 1:01.4 | that found that juvenile life sentences were excessive for all but the rarest |
| 1:06.7 | cases. |
| 1:07.7 | Well that's not the only precedent set in the Crumbly case. |
| 1:11.8 | On December 3rd, 2021, prosecutor Karen D. McDonald |
| 1:16.5 | made this announcement. |
| 1:17.9 | Today I am announcing charges against the shooter's parents. |
| 1:21.3 | Jennifer and James Crumbly. |
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