[cookingrobot]

It will be interesting to see the civil suits. The parents apparently argued that their son had no sense of personal accountability because they'd always given him anything he wanted and never told him no. When damages start being calculated for the victims and their families, there's a pretty good argument that it's not safe to leave the parents with any money.

[gojomo]

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.

[cookingrobot]

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.