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30 Golden Gate U.L. Rev. 497 (2000)
Where Are the Parents - Parental Criminal Responsibility for the Acts of Children

handle is hein.journals/ggulr30 and id is 545 raw text is: COMMENT WHERE ARE THE PARENTS? PARENTAL CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACTS OF CHILDREN I. INTRODUCTION On April 20, 1999, Dylan KIebold, age seventeen and Eric Harris, age eighteen, walked into their high school in Colum- bine, Colorado and opened fire on fellow students and faculty.! Armed with a handgun, two shotguns, and a rifle, they killed twelve students, one teacher, and wounded twenty-three oth- ers.2 This was not just an impromptu spree.8 Before commit- ting the massacre Klebold and Harris copied school keys, ac- quired guns, kept a diary describing their plans, made bombs and planted them in the school, and even warned a student to leave the school before they began shooting.4 Then, after their homicidal acts, both Klebold and Harris committed suicide.5 The two killers plotted their attack on Columbine High School for more than a year.6 They planned when they would I See John Cloud, Just a Routine School Shooting, TIME, May 31,1999, at 36-37. 2 See Ud 3See Nancy Gibbs and Timothy Roche, The Columbine Tapes, TIME, Dec. 20, 1999, at 43. 4 See Bill Dedman, Secret Service Is Seeking Pattern for School Killers, N.Y. TIMES, June 21, 1999, at A-12. 5 See Cloud, supra note 1. 6 See Gibbs, supra note 3, at 45. 497

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