The parents of Ethan Crumbley (right), James (left) and Jennifer (middle) Crumbley, were sentenced to prison on Tuesday (Pictures: AP)
The parents of a teenage school shooter have become the first in US history to be sentenced and held criminally responsible for a massacre carried out by their child.
James and Jennifer Crumbley have each been sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison after being convicted for their role in the November 2021 Oxford High School shooting in Michigan.
Each of them apologized in Oakland County Circuit Court before hearing their sentences.
‘I stand today not to ask for your forgiveness, as I know it may be beyond reach, but to express my sincerest apologies for the pain that has been caused,’ Jennifer said to the victims’ relatives in the room.
Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Cheryl Matthews handed down the parents’ sentences on Tuesday afternoon
Her husband said: ‘I cannot express how much I wish that I had known what was going on with him or what was going to happen, because I absolutely would have done a lot of things differently.’
Judge Cheryl Matthews handed down their sentences in Pontiac on Tuesday afternoon.
‘Parents are not expected to be psychic, but these convictions are not about poor parenting,’ said Matthews.
‘These convictions confirm repeated acts or lack of acts that could have halted an oncoming runaway train – repeatedly ignoring things that would make a reasonable person feel the hair on the back of her neck stand up.’
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