Aristoph posted... Good.
Dafuq? Does nobody remember being a kid and how often you lied and hid shit from your parents? My parents were great, but they had no idea of half the shit I got into with my friends. Now I'm not a psycho, so the shit I hid from them didn't include beating people to death. But come on, these are teenagers. There's no chance the parents had any idea what they were up to if the kids didn't want them to.
Part of being a parent is trusting that when your kids are out of your sight, they're still being good kids. It's not always true, of course. But you do at some point have to trust your kid on his own. Micromanaging and hovering over them 24/7 is just as unhealthy and damaging to a kid's growth as ignoring them entirely. The situation sucks, the teens deserve to rot in prison, but locking up their parents too doesn't do anything to help anybody.
I'm glad this was said. Obviously the parents should be looked into, but I feel like people forget what being a teen was like. You can do everything right as a parent and still end up with a fuck up.