My thoughts were similar: if the parenting is assigned most of the blame, maybe the parents should be serving the jail term? (I'd hate that as a general precedent – even good parents can yield a criminal child – but if in this case the parents have effectively embraced that culpability...)
Perhaps civil suits, leveraging the criminal case argumentation, can approximate that outcome.
I'd love that as a general precedent. Either the kid is tried as an adult, or the parents are tried in their place. It should be the parents' job to protect society from their children.
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My thoughts were similar: if the parenting is assigned most of the blame, maybe the parents should be serving the jail term? (I'd hate that as a general precedent – even good parents can yield a criminal child – but if in this case the parents have effectively embraced that culpability...)
Perhaps civil suits, leveraging the criminal case argumentation, can approximate that outcome.
I'd love that as a general precedent. Either the kid is tried as an adult, or the parents are tried in their place. It should be the parents' job to protect society from their children.