Not a sign of the apocalypse?

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Holy cow perhaps some sanity in an insane world? You remember that girl who killed herself because her friend's mom pretended to be a boy who liked her over myspace? Well it looks like she's being indicted for the whole thing. I'm not saying she should get the death penalty but at least someone is holding some kind of accountability for it.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/15/...ide/index.html

[Ms. Porkchop]

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It's good to hear that she is going to have to be responsible for her actions.

[Deeth Irteen]

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...her friend's mom pretended to be a boy who liked her over myspace?.......

"The crying game" sense, tingling.


All joking aside, I never heard of that. But that woman deserves severe flogging.

[DK]

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Yeah, she does.

What a tragic story.

[Lord Cohliani]

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In December, Missouri prosecutors declined to file charges against Drew, saying there was no law under which she could be charged.

WTF?!?! At least harrasment!

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

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im also glad to see that there is some accountability though i think this will be a difficult case to prove since the internet is largely an anonymous place and there is no real way to prove that she did it beyond admitting it herself.

im still on the fence as far as agreeing with a murder charge. her actions directly lead to the death of this young girl, they where malicious and where designed with criminal intent (criminal, not murderous intent), yet i dont believe the parties intentionally went out to destroy this young girl. a stiff punishment is definitely in order though.

this case and my own view will most likely rest on this question: who is responsible for someone committing suicide? is it not the decision of the person themselves to take their own life or is it the fault of those who added to the conditions that brought about this action?

it will be an interesting case to follow (and im sure law and order will make a spoof case on it next season too)

[Seraph]

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If you were to hold the woman accountable for the girls suicide, then you would have to hold anyone who ever slighted the girl throughout the course of her life accountable.

I think the woman is still pretty sick though and should be punished for her actions. I just don't think she is directly responsible for the girls suicide. The parents already said that their daughter was unstable. Anyone else who was more "stable" probably wouldn't have commited suicide over the matter.

[Big Rick Cook]

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All sounds like a bunch of aggressive emo nansy-pansy bull****. But what do I know? I'm just a guy online.

[BIOHUNTERZ]

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NOW HOLD ON A SEC! I know i missed this whole thing and all but let me get this straight. some girl killed herself over a internet relationship that turned out to be not what it was? I can see a solid telling off of the persoon who faked being the boy, BUT KILLING YOURSELF! thats the most F'N retarted thing I have head in ages.

ok, read the linked acticle.

-bad parenting here (the girls parents should take a little more care with dealing with a daughter with issues).

-f'ing stupid reason to pull that kind of stunt in the first place on a teenage girl. that woman got whats comming to her for that i can say. If she had a problem approach the parents.

the internets is really ****ing up kids nowdays.

[John Mora]

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I don't think there was bad parenting on their own end. What the hell do you expect a kid like that to do when they get told off by an internet friend? Kill herself? I wouldn't. I bet most of us wouldn't.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

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outright impossible to be able to monitor everything a child does, especially with the depth that technology has inserted itself into our lives. i know i worked pretty hard to thwart my mother and i was able to do all kinds of illegal things with friends that neither parents could of stopped. since the child was unstable, it would stand to reason that they could of tried to get her help. then again maybe money wasnt available for treatment, perhaps there was a lot of sudden turmoil that compounded this whole case?

suicide has never and will never be the answer. suicide is a choice, not a last resort or a forced resolution.

[American Hero]

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Stupid Myspace. I hate it when crap like this happens, and I have a hard time understanding things like this. I'm not sure if the Mom should be held totally responcible. I think she had some help from a couple of people.

[Goufunaki]

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NOW HOLD ON A SEC! I know i missed this whole thing and all but let me get this straight. some girl killed herself over a internet relationship that turned out to be not what it was? I can see a solid telling off of the persoon who faked being the boy, BUT KILLING YOURSELF! thats the most F'N retarted thing I have head in ages.

Killing yourself over love has happened for many years with people.

As young as she is, she couldn't fully deal with the things that were going on because she didn't exactly know how.

Putting so much emotional involvement into someone only to have them turn their backs on you (even though it was fake in this case) is pretty ****ing devastating, you'd actually want to be dead.

From reading the article, the girl had no idea it was a hoax to begin with. She also suffered from depression, which is dangerous to screw around with depending on how serious it can be.

How is this the most retarded thing in ages? You act like this has never happened before anywhere.

[Chad]

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If then people jump off of a cliff, the tenth person isn't the least retarded.