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On november thirty of twenty twenty one, when Ethan crumbly opened fire on his classmates at a oxford high school, killing four students, the reactions to the smother n american phenomenon was sadly familiar.

But you'll learn in a new podcast available exclusively on woundily plus the events that unfolded in the aftermath of the michigan shooting or anything but business as usual, the teenage silence parents, Jennifer and James, were thrust into the national spotlight when, in an unprecedented turn of event, the two were charged with involuntary manslaughter after their son's acts of violence, wandering and line crime. Bring you the new podcast sins of the child, which raises questions about parental responsibility, agent and what could have been done to prevent the heartbreaking tragedy. Sins of the child presents the most in depth analysis to date.

ExpLoring these complex questions and more, I taking you through the historic trials of Jennifer and James crumbly. What would you do if you were charged with your child's crimes? Here is a preview of episode one. Questions emerged whether or not the victims and the shooter had previous ties, but nothing added up.

This was in discriminate killing. There is no connection of these people at all.

Citizens of ox were demanded answers for these senseless murder. This was a small town with strong community values. A school shooting was uncontainable.

IT doesn't happen at expert, doesn't happen anywhere, but IT certainly doesn't happen .

at oxford high school. And there still remained more .

questions than answers how a you pull off gotto be someone else.

Then a detail, both chilling and madam, came to light the exact same day of the shooting. The shooters parents, Jennifer r. And James, had been on campus.

The part of this is that just an hour or so before the shooting, there was a meeting in the school with the school counsellor, the dean of students James and gene fer crumbly and the shooter.

This wasn't the first instance of suspicious behavior from the student either.

At the day before, he was watching violent videos, and the school council said, I need a meeting with the parents right now.

Jennifer in James were at their respective jobs when they received the car, but stepped away from their work and headed for oxford high school.

They drove separately to the school, had the meeting with the councillor, is a short meeting, and basically the recommendation from the councillor was, the shooter needs councillor now take him out of school. He was not removed from the school.

Despite two days in a row of red flag behavior, the assailant was not formally requested to be removed from the school by administrators, and his own parents exhibited zero inclination to do so on their own. What charlie recounts happen next is even more brow ising.

And what was really weird that where he left his backup and he was told to go to the office for this meeting with his parents, and then after he was decided, okay, even then, can stay in school that day. Think one of the math class got the backup and have the gun and gave IT back to the shooter.

The fifteen year old was free to stay under one caveat.

They promise that they would get him counselling or sign them up for counselling within a couple of days, but the shooter was allowed to stay in school.

Apparently, whatever the boy expressed in the meeting that morning of november thirty of twenty twenty one was sufficient enough assurance for all parties and attendance.

all either needed. He convinced him, apparently, that he wasn't killer, but he was given the pack back back to him with the gun in IT and then with an hour. So he did what he did. That's the chilling her when .

Jennifer James heard news of an active shooter on the campus where they had just been only ninety minutes earlier, their immediate action speak louder than words here. Share of .

mike pushed. He raised home to find out if the gun was still there. SHE sent a text to the shooter and said, don't do IT Jennifer .

received no response from her son. James couldn't find the gun. Now you might be wondering why the shooting's father would even know about the weather used in the shooting.

IT was a nine millimeter, six hour. Is other purchases for him a couple of days before.

and with this information that the shooters dad had provided him with the murder weapon that killed four innocent teenagers, police began pulling the threads of an entirely new kind of investigation. Listen to sense of the child's exclusively and add free on wander plus, join wunder plus in the wonders APP or on apple podcast.