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Michigan school shooter’s parents sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for role in attack

a woman in a striped prison uniform and a man in an orange prison uniform both sit in a room with wooden walls
Jennifer and James Crumbley in court in Rochester Hills, Michigan, on 8 February 2022. Photograph: Paul Sancya/AP

The parents of a Michigan school shooter have each been sentenced to between 10 and 15 years in prison for their role in an attack that killed four students in 2021 in a case that has broken new ground as the US seeks to tackle its years-long epidemic of school shootings.

Jennifer and James Crumbley appeared in court on Tuesday as the first parents convicted in an American mass school shooting. During their trials prosecutors said “tragically simple actions” by both parents could have stopped the catastrophe.

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