UPDATE: James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of the teen charged in the Oxford High School shooting, were located and arrested early Saturday in Detroit.
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Earlier Friday, they were charged with four counts each of involuntary manslaughter. https://t.co/pc2KYDm1I7 pic.twitter.com/die9Bm4kTs
You know, whenever it's suggested that people who don't have kids might just be terribly selfish, I think it's good to recognize that incredibly selfish and unfit people can and do have kids, and the results can be truly tragic.
The Crumbleys appear to be astonishingly selfish people. Their kid was throwing red flags up about his state of mind, literally writing "Help me!" on pictures of mayhem and these people don't seem to have heard or cared. They bought him a gun!
When the school was put on lockdown because of a live shooter, Jennifer Crumbley right away texted her son, "Don't do it." She knew. When he was put in custody--he got a public defender, but when mom and dad were also charged, they got one of of Larry Nassar's attorney's. When the lawyer arranged for them to turn themselves in, again, while their kid is in custody--they took out $4000 and went on the run.
It really seems to me that while their Ethan had done a horrifying thing, they had no intention at all for being responsible for or even to their child. And yet somehow, despite their depraved indifference, they still got set bail, and I don't doubt that there will be some folks out there in their corner, even if their responsibility, their culpability, is only too clear.
There really will be people who identify with them. They will be depicted as just hard-working gun owners who didn't understand what was wrong with their child until it was too late. And people will fail to learn any lessons from all of this because that's apparently an awful lot to ask in a country where school shootings so regularly take place.
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