I was unaware that parents could be held financially and otherwise responsible for the actions of their fully grown, adult children.
"The lawsuit alleges that the Laundries stonewalled police and withheld information that could have assisted in the search for Gabby Petito, according to KSTU. The Petito family further claimed the Laundries assisted their son in avoiding police, thereby inflicting emotional distress on her family."
I don't know if the suit will be successful, but they are clearly suing the parents over their own actions, not their son's actions.
I was unaware that parents could be held financially and otherwise responsible for the actions of their fully grown, adult children.
"The lawsuit alleges that the Laundries stonewalled police and withheld information that could have assisted in the search for Gabby Petito, according to KSTU. The Petito family further claimed the Laundries assisted their son in avoiding police, thereby inflicting emotional distress on her family."
I don't know if the suit will be successful, but they are clearly suing the parents over their own actions, not their son's actions.
This is true but I'm not sure how they can be legally held responsible for not talking to the police or anyone else. That would open up a pretty big can of worms across the legal spectrum.
If the legal action (and not just the article) includes what the Laundries told their attorney I have no idea how that moves forward due to attorney/client privilege.
That said, any discovery on this case might be interesting in a what happened and when sense.
I was unaware that parents could be held financially and otherwise responsible for the actions of their fully grown, adult children.
"The lawsuit alleges that the Laundries stonewalled police and withheld information that could have assisted in the search for Gabby Petito, according to KSTU. The Petito family further claimed the Laundries assisted their son in avoiding police, thereby inflicting emotional distress on her family."
I don't know if the suit will be successful, but they are clearly suing the parents over their own actions, not their son's actions.
It’s a strange lawsuit coming understandably from a place of deep anger and loss, but there is little legal precedent for successfully collecting from someone for inaction as opposed to intentional or unintentional action. There isn’t a duty to help as a bystander, and in most states, not even a spousal obligation to help. You can literally watch someone die and you wouldn’t be legally in the wrong unless negligence of duty as in the case of a minor or a professional obligation can be established.
As for not taking to the police, that is a constitutionally protected right. It would be a different matter if they destroyed evidence after when Laundrie was declared a suspect, not just a person of interest, but “withholding evidence“??