Posted on 10/17/2013 11:49:41 AM PDT by House Atreides
The Florida sheriff investigating a girl's suicide allegedly prompted by online bullying said he's considering charging the parents of one of the two girls arrested in the case because they're in "total denial."
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The parents of these evil creatures have been defending them.
While not very nice behavior, I'm not sure it rises to the level of a crime. You can't just bend the laws to punish a$$holes. They actually have to be guilty of something
sorry...being a skeptic prevents errors in judgment.
The sheriff already ahs the girls in jail for life.
Yep, if being an a-hole is a crime, you couldn’t build enough jails.
The girl who killed herself apparently had tried the same thing before, she did have emotional problems..this all stemmed from the two girls(Rebecca and the 14 yr old) being involved with the same boy
My 13-year-old tried that story on me last week, when time-stamped posts on Google+ showed that she had been online while I was out of the house. Sorry, not buying it.
Civilly, they may be liable, but I don't think I've ever heard of a parent being criminally charged for something their minor child did, unless the parent directly contributed. There was one case of cyberbullying I seem to recall where the parent (or parents) of the bullies were, in fact, involved in bullying the victim as well.
How about “facilitating a crime”, for the charges?
Huh? WTHeck?
The two girls should be in jail. Not all teenage girls are 8!tches, but the worst 8!tches are teenage girls.
Then they should arrest the parents of the suicidal 12-year old girl who allowed her to date boys and have unrestricted access to Facebook at her age. What blithering idiots.
So. A girl gets bullied. She kills herself. Authorities want to charge the other girls and their parents.
And what about that 15 year old boy who killed himself after being threatened by bullies who threatened to charge him as a sex offender for simply streaking one night at the high school football game.
What kind of charges should they be facing?
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Fox had their pictures up last evening and this morning. Not often you see two accused young teen pics with the height gauge behind them, let alonge girls. It would be nice if the teen gang punks (black, white or Hispanic) who cause mayhem would have their pictures released also. This was a surprising but welcome exception to the usual lib mantra that we have to protect the identities of the young "darlings."
So now we want to lock up parents who are “in denial”? Is there a level of denial that criminal? Can we quantiate that or is it solely up to a judge?
Lets also lock up the baby mommas and daddys when their kids commit crimes or just join gangs. Lets lock up the school principal and the homeroom teacher of the girl who killed herself. Lock up the parents of kids who are too fat, or who shoot up a school, or who drink and drive. How bout the parents of young boys who wear NRA T-shirts, or dont believe in global warming?
said he’s considering charging the parents of one of the two girls arrested in the case because they’re in “total denial.”
Yeah I saw “Total Denial” in my Criminal Code Book listed right under “He Is An Asshole”. Both carry terms of 5 to 10 years..........
Civilly, they may be liable, but I don't think I've ever heard of a parent being criminally charged for something their minor child did, unless the parent directly contributed. There was one case of cyberbullying I seem to recall where the parent (or parents) of the bullies were, in fact, involved in bullying the victim as well.
I don't feel comfortable charging people criminally (adults or children) with so-called "cyberbullying" if for no other reason than the slippery slope, (and you know that government and law enforcement LOVES to expand these laws as much as they can.) While some might look at this case and say these girls need to be punished because they're cyberbulling contributed to a suicide, where do you draw the line? If I'm in a heated discussion with somebody on FreeRepublic about one Obama policy or another, and in the heat of the moment I call them an idiot. Then latter that day they're found to have committed suicide and left a note saying the reason was they could no longer deal with being called names on FreeRepublic. Wouldn't I be just as guilty as these girls under "cyberbullying" laws? It would eventually get so that anybody would be afraid to say anything even remotely controversial that might upset someone suicidal...
So who forced the girl to log onto Facebook?
I dunno is facilitating a crime a real crime?
Oh yes, those weird homeschoolers are at it again.
"sorry...being a skeptic prevents errors in judgment."
How so in this case?
"The sheriff already ahs the girls in jail for life."
If you consider 5 years only for the 14 year old to be "life", then yes:
"Jeffrey Swartz, a professor at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Riverview and a former Miami-Dade County judge, said if Guadalupe is charged as an adult, she could face up to five years of jail time. And Swartz said it might be the best option to make sure the 14-year-old receives a stiff enough punishment. "As an adult it's a third-degree felony," Swartz said. "That last (Facebook) message may be — if she gets tried as an adult — the reason why. She shows no social conscience." He said it's highly unlikely that the 12-year-old will be tried as an adult, but she could face juvenile detention, house detention or other probationary sanctions."
Source:http://www.theledger.com/article/20131016/NEWS/131019369?p=all&tc=pgall
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