Jennifer and James Crumbley, the parents of mass killer Ethan Crumbley, were convicted of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the deadliest school shooting in Michigan history. They were each sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison.
Before announcing the sentence, Judge Cheryl Matthews of the Oakland County Circuit Court in Pontiac, Mich., said that parents' convictions "are not about poor parenting," saying they could not have predicted that he would kill four of his fellow students. Instead, “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,” The New York Times reported.
