At some point you gotta make an example out of someone to scare off others inclined to similar acts. And the parents need to get charged. If the teen's parents are responsible shouldn't the child be not criminally responsible? Should we have 'charged' the sitting PM because his child was a criminal?Read the story and squirm a bit. We don't know how that child ended up that way; but presumably charging Jean Chretien would not have been a legally viable or just answer in respect of his son's conduct.