When can parents be held responsible for their children’s crimes?
Mass shootings by young assailants are raising the question
ON SEPTEMBER 4TH Colt Gray, a 14-year-old student at Apalachee High School in Georgia, shot dead two students and two teachers and wounded nine other people. Two days later the boy was brought into court to face charges—as an adult—on four counts of first-degree murder.
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