She’s a stupid and despicable person. I’ve seen the stupid and despicable posters on Free Republic too.
But “Manslaughter by Text” is not only an IDIOTIC charge but something that sounds like it came from “The Onion” or Saturday a Night Live!
The prosecutor’s office there must allow “smoking on the job” ... LOL ...
Re: “But “Manslaughter by Text” is not only an IDIOTIC charge but something that sounds like it came from “The Onion” or Saturday a Night Live!”
The question is - does encouraging a a suicidal person to go through with it make the “encourager” an accessory to the act of suicide? Is that criminal? This was not an anonymous poster on some comment section of a website. She knew the victim personally. She knew he was suicidal.
Had this girl been there in person or talking with him directly on the phone - is there a difference from that with texting him in real time? Texting is not the issue here - it is the act of helping someone kill himself that is the issue, not the means by which they “helped”.