School Shooter Ethan Crumbley's Parents Sentenced To Prison

For the first time in history, parents of a school shooter have been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to prison. Jennifer and James Crumbley, parents of Oxford High School shooter, have each been sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison. Their son, Ethan, gunned down four students at his school in Michigan. His parents were found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter, in a precedent setting case that will, hopefully, set in motion the ability for prosecutors and the courts to hold parents of school shooters accountable if their child commits a similar crime.

During the course of the trial, the parents were shown to be inattentive, reckless, unloving and selfish. They put their own needs over their son's, and when faced with the reality of just how mentally ill and dangerous their son was, they chose to buy him a gun and refused to take him to much needed therapy.

The judge told the parents that "each action or inaction created a ripple effect" and that the prison sentences she had handed down are "in the best interests of justice and are reasonable and proportionate."

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