Posted on 11/21/2007 9:26:06 AM PST by Between the Lines
You never know how unstable a person you are posting to may be.
“I don’t see how you can make that particular prediction about not making it through highschool based on whats available publicly. Millions of others have, many with much worse problems than this girl.”
Exactly. Those millions didn’t kill themselves the first time somebody called them names.
“I disagree with your first assertion, and no way you can convince me this wasn’t not only ‘harrassment’ but also ‘stalking’.”
No way. You can’t invite someone in your home and complain that they are harassing or stalking you. Having that user on her friend’s list is an invite. The fact remains that she could have easily blocked all correspondence from the user if she had wanted to.
“A child, age 14, being approached under false pretense by an adult is what this is all about. Not the child, nor the child’s actions.”
Where is the proof of that? It is my understanding is that it was the adult’s idea but the daughter did the messaging. You have any proof that an adult approached this child? If so, how many messages would constitute harassment? One? It appears the kid made NO attempts to break off correspondence so I’m having trouble seeing how that is stalking OR harassment.
Look, the kid was sick. She obviously had SERIOUS mental and emotional problems if some person she knew online for a month was cause enough for her to kill herself.
Goodby telephone too. That is also criminal.
The kid was a kid. With all that entails.
The adults that did this to her are the problem. That you don’t see this clearly is mindboggling to me.
A little girl is dead today, and you choose to defend the actions of the ADULTS in this matter?
Wow.
Lets not continue this discussion, okay? It won’t end well for either of us.
“The world would be a better place without you.”
They pushed her over the edge. Just as the government military pushed David Koresh over the edge.
Cops don’t dare a man with a gun to his head to pull the trigger. They wait for him to point the gun at them and then carry out his wishes.
They are however more dangerous because of their increase in knowledge but still trapped in their juvenile mindset. Also their adult guise tricks people into thinking they are indeed matured so they can be even more insidious.
There’s a “reasonable” person standard. A reasonable person wouldn’t expect a single hurtful accusation to send someone over the edge. A reasonable person would expect that what was done to this girl in these circumstances had a significant chance of causing serious harm.
The dead girl’s parents had the password for her account and would not let her log on without them granting the access.
It is currently against federal law to post annoying Web messages or send annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.
http://www.news.com/Create-an-e-annoyance,-go-to-jail/2010-1028_3-6022491.html
Exactly!
And these people knew her and KNEW how fragile she was. They were neighbors, pseudo friends to her parents. Again, they KNEW her. She wasn’t a stranger. They did it to ‘help’ their daughter spy on a girl she was, what, jealous of?
Heck, even I know that all I have to do to bring one of my 17 year old students to tears is to say something negative about them to their faces. The hormones, chemical and physical changes make this an extremely volital time for even the mentally healthiest of children. Yeah, they need to ‘toughen up’ to a degree, but kindness on my part only makes me better and doesn’t harm them.
So I have no pity for the scum who hurt this girl.
Thanks for the info!
More likely the anointed at ABC think all flyover country is the same.
And with a poor self-esteem, here is someone out of the blue who thinks you’re neat! Special! Wonderful! When you are at your most awkward, self-conscious, “the whole world is looking at me and laughing” age. I can nearly feel how happy and special she must have felt at first. Probably that's why her parents were OK with it....they saw the positive effects.
Then all of a sudden, this person turns on you. Heck, if I wanted to kill a depressed child, I couldn’t come up with a better formula.
It was a teenage boy that was invited in, not an adult intent of harassment.
What happens when narcissism is taken to an extreme. Call me a simpleton, but I believe that Evil exists in the world.
There is no point in explaining or trying to understand. IMO one must simply protect oneself and loved ones, physically and spirtually, from people who have succumb to pure evil.
They “knew” nothing of the sort. That’s my point about MySpace and 13-year-old girls.
Children shouldn’t be allowed to use the internet.
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