Prosecutor asserts Crumbleys’ ‘toxic’ family life turned their son into a killer – By Tresa Baldas (Detroit Free Press) / Aug 4, 2022
James and Jennifer Crumbley didn’t just ignore their “troubled” son, but exposed him to years of domestic disputes that involved loud fights, heavy drinking, infidelity and rants about money problems, and often put him in the middle of their spats, prosecutors argue in a new court filing.
And rather than hide their affairs from their young son, prosecutors say, they would inject him into their drama by asking him to check on the other parent, with the mother once bringing him along to spend the night at her lover’s house when he was 6.
Moreover, prosecutors argue, the Crumbleys were irresponsible with money, spending $4,000 in one year at a liquor store, but not a dime on the mental health care of a child who was seeing demons and pleading for help.
