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Defendants Were ‘Focused on Their Own Issues’

The whole family is behind bars because the parents were too “focused on their own issues.” Prosecutors in a high profile case revealed some really disturbing reasons why the defendants should not be let out on reduced bail. They’re at “greater risk of flight” now, than when they were arrested in the first place. The bond was “properly set” at $500,000 and should stay there.

Not focused on the family

The parents of 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley had their attention focused on a lot of things. Everything except their son. Prosecutors spelled it out to the judge after they asked for a modification in their bond. James and Jennifer Crumbley are at a “greater risk of flight” now, the state argues.

On November 30, Crumbly went on a rampage at Oxford High School in Michigan. The assault left 4 classmates dead and 7 others injured, including a teacher. All “the parents had to do was tell the school they’d recently purchased a gun for him, ask him where the gun was, open his backpack or just take him home.”

The parents are so focused on their own freedom that they already threw their son under the bus, by lawyering up themselves but not getting him one. Not only that, “the couple is more than $11,000 behind on their house payments.” They sold their horses, which strongly indicates that “they will flee if they get the opportunity.”

When they were arrested, “the parents had four cell phones.” They “attempted to destroy one of the phones.” After the shooting, Jennifer “said to a co-worker and in a text that ‘her son’s destiny is done and she has to take care of herself.'”

James and Jennifer “willfully ignored the needs and well-being of their son and the threat he posed to others.” Because for starters, they put the gun in his hand. They now face four counts each of involuntary manslaughter.

They wouldn’t be in trouble now if they focused on Ethan instead of sex, drugs, and horses. “Defendants were in a better position than anyone else in the world to prevent this tragedy, but they failed to do so,”

Facts speak for themselves

In their response filing, the prosecutors focused on the facts, and they were really disturbing facts.

In a statement, Oakland County, Michigan’s Chief Assistant Prosecutor, David Williams, noted “the facts laid out in the brief we submitted to the court today speak for themselves and based on those facts, we strongly believe that the bond for James and Jennifer Crumbley was set appropriately.”

An hour before the shooting started, “they knew their son was depressed and ‘fascinated with guns.'” They knew something was wrong for at least six months and ignored it. In “the six months before the shooting, his parents were aware that he was sadder than usual.”

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His only friend moved. He kept sending “disturbing texts about his state of mind” to his mother. His parents’ thoughts were focused elsewhere. “Instead of paying attention to their son and getting him help, they bought him a gun.”

While “their son was struggling,” prosecutors write, “his parents spent several hours a night,three to four nights a week, at a barn caring for their horses.” One was “having extramarital affairs.” Both were focused on their “own issues,” including “substance abuse issues.” They didn’t care that Ethan “had been torturing animals” and kept a “baby bird’s head in a jar on his bedroom floor.”

The biggest piece of evidence against them is a geometry test that Ethan took that day. After it was discovered, he made “modifications” to tone it down. The school administrators let the parents talk them into letting him go back to shoot up class afterward, so he wouldn’t have to go home to an empty house and shoot himself. School “counselors decided to allow him to return to class, rather than send him to what they thought would be an empty home.”

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