# Even been a legal code in history that punished criminals AND their families for the perps crimes?

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> [@Nava](#):
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> For failure to uphold her duty of making sure the boy went to school. Yes, he was the one skipping, but she was the one responsible for having him in school.

Yes, that’s true in Ohio, also, under the curfew law. A kinda similar statute pertains to wrongful entrustment (sometimes titled “owner operator”), under which a person is prosecuted for letting someone else drive her car when the driver did not have the lawful privilege to do so. The driver may still be prosecuted for no driver license, driving under suspension, etc.

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