The sentence can be considered a certain kind of precedent when in the United States the responsibility of a parent for a child's shooting is considered.
Stateside a mother has been convicted of manslaughter in a school shooting by her son. They tell about the verdict, among other things CNN channel and The New York Times.
A 15-year-old boy killed four and wounded seven at Oxford High School in Michigan in November 2021. According to The New York Times, it is the state's bloodiest school shooting ever. The shooter was sentenced to life imprisonment in December 2023.
The boy's mother was sentenced on Tuesday for four counts of manslaughter involving four dead students. The length of the sentence will be determined in April, and according to the media, the mother may be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. The trial of the boy's father will be held in March.
The sentence can be considered a certain kind of precedent when in the United States the responsibility of a parent for a child's shooting is considered. CNN's according to monitoring, there were 82 school shootings in the United States last year. Mass shootings are common in the United States, where gun laws are relatively lax.
The Michigan shooting was carried out with a gun the boy had received as a gift from his parents. In recent months, prosecutors in various states in the United States have argued in court for greater parental responsibility for their children's crimes. In the past, parents may have been convicted, for example, of neglecting responsibility [lastaan kohtaan]but the Michigan case is the first in which a parent has been found directly responsible for the deaths.
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