Oakland County robberies perpetrated by a 13-year-old — parents not charged

From ABC:

The break-ins began two years ago and the teen was arrest­ed on Thurs­day, accord­ing to the sher­if­f’s office. The sus­pect alleged­ly looked for unlocked win­dows and had a knife dur­ing sev­er­al inci­dents, he said.

Charges are not yet clear. The 13-year-old’s par­ent has been coop­er­a­tive, Bouchard said.

Notably, Oak­land Coun­ty Pros­e­cu­tor Karen McDon­ald is not charg­ing the child’s neg­li­gent par­ent – nei­ther the sin­gle par­ent present, nor the absen­tee – when the same pros­e­cu­tor pre­vi­ous­ly charged and con­vict­ed the par­ents of Oxford shoot­er Ethan Crum­b­ley of manslaugh­ter.

Whether par­ents should be held account­able for their chil­dren’s crimes is an inter­est­ing legal top­ic for debate. But what isn’t debat­able is that the Oak­land Coun­ty pros­e­cu­tor does not apply any con­sis­tent stan­dard of jus­tice.

The rea­son is obvi­ous: because the pros­e­cu­tion of Ethan Crum­b­ley’s par­ents was a polit­i­cal­ly charged Sec­ond Amend­ment issue, where­as this more recent case was not.