PAM TOLER, KENTUCKY: My name is Pam Toler, and I am from Elizabethtown, Kentucky. And I want to ask</s>CNN: aren't parents legally responsible for their children until age 18? Can parents of children who commit crimes against others be charged criminally?</s>GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: When you talk about criminal activity, that's individual responsibility. If you can show, for instance, that a parent aided and abetted, or is part of a conspiracy, then the parent would be brought into the criminal responsibility surrounding the child. But criminal responsibility is individual, unless you can show that someone in any other way is involved, is aiding and abetting, and helping.
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