Jennifer Crumbley, 45, the mother of a Michigan boy who shot dead four high-school classmates in 2021 while testifying in her own defence before the closing arguments to examine whether the parents of the school shooter are liable for manslaughter or not admitted to using an adultery app to pursue multiple affairs.
According to reports by news agencies, she also hosted ‘sex parties’ with her lover Brian Meloche with other participants. She has been charged with involuntary manslaughter over her son’s school shooting incident. She has testified that she was not responsible for buying or storing the gun used in the killings.
A panel of 12 jurors will decide the fate of Jennifer Crumbley who has pleaded not guilty and faces four counts of involuntary manslaughter.
This is the first trial where prosecutors are attempting to find a parent of a school shooter criminally responsible. Her husband, James Crumbley, was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter and his trial will begin separately in a few weeks. James bought a 9mm handgun for his son a few days before the shooting at Oxford High School near Detroit
The prosecutors are alleging that the parents were negligent in failing to secure the gun their son, Ethan, used in the shooting.
Ethan Crumbley, who was 15 at the time of the shooting on Nov. 30, 2021, pleaded guilty in 2022 to two dozen counts, including four of first-degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole in December.
Prosecutors have accused his parents of knowing their son’s mental health was in a “downward spiral” and posed a danger to others, yet allowed him to have access to firearms, including the handgun he used to kill classmates.
Prosecutors want to examine Jennifer’s claims that she was a “hyper-vigilant helicopter parent” and was “close” to her son before he shot four of his classmates.
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