'My Space' hoax ends with suicide of Dardenne Prairie teen

[phomet]

Has it escaped everyone that the girl was on meds when she committed suicide?

One of the major side effects of anti-depression drugs is suicide.

[feederband]

Could of very well played a part...Just the myspace thing put her over the edge..

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

those neighbors that drove the girl to suicide should at
least be charged with harassment and
possibly manslaughter:
They were obviously encouraging her to commit suicide:

Her father said he found a message the next day from Josh, which he said law enforcement authorities have not been able to retrieve. It told the girl she was a bad person and the world would be better without her, he has said.

Also they were committing sexual harassment against a minor:

Someone using Josh's account was sending cruel messages. Then, Megan called her mother, saying electronic bulletins were being posted about her, saying things like, "Megan Meier is a slut. Megan Meier is fat."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312018,00.html


They should be charged with sexual harassment
and With Assisted Suicide- which is a FELONY in several
states.

The neighbors Knowingly sent cruel messages to a minor they
knew was mentally vulnerable and depressed, and made her
commit suicide by these messages. They should be
charged with Manslaughter and locked in prison.
The Police needs to get these people off the streets before
they start harassing other children.

[gtalum]

Nobody "made' her commit suicide. Further, the last message can't actually be proven since it just disappeared. That is, of course, one of the big holes in the story, as those messages don't just disappear.

There is a clear case for harassment (which is another big hole in the story), but not manslaughter or assisted suicide. Suicide is not a rational response to harsh criticism, so the perpetrators can't be expected to assume it will happen as a result of their harassment.

It's looking more and more to me like the parents are looking for a payday in court and are trying to assuage their own feelings of guilt.

[feederband]

It's looking more and more to me like the parents are looking for a payday in court and are trying to assuage their own feelings of guilt.

So now your saying the parents caused it?

[Squarethecircle]

It's looking more and more to me like the parents are looking for a payday in court and are trying to assuage their own feelings of guilt.

So now your saying the parents caused it?

No, what he is referring to is that when children do something bad, or have something happen to them, the parents tend to feel at fault, which creates guilt, in this situation unfounded.

[gtalum]

So now your saying the parents caused it?

No. In fact I'm sure I didn't say that.

Parents often feel guilt when something happens to their kids, even if it's something completely out of their control. Emotions are not logical.

[Opal storm]

If these were grown adults sending her these messages, then no doubt they should be spend the rest of their lives in the slammer. Your a grown adult, why are you spending your time making a myspace page to harass a 13 year old girl? Those parents are messed* up in the head.




*Profanity edited out

[Squarethecircle]

If these were grown adults sending her these messages, then no doubt they should be spend the rest of their lives in the slammer. Your a grown adult, why are you spending your time making a myspace page to harass a 13 year old girl? Those parents are f***ed up in the head.

Hey, if those parents are going to jail, then I want Donald Trump in the slammer as well!

[Cryomaniac]

My problem with a lot of the replys in this thread is the fact they are pretty hypocritical. Calling for those involved to be jailed for life, wishing them to get ebola, and other completly disproportinate punishments. Don't you think that that makes you almost as bad?

[feederband]

When you get parents messing with kids heads that causes them to commit suicide chopping their heads off at the time just sounds resonable...Even though it really isn't.......

[fwbbreeze]

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/21882976/?GT1=10547

The parents of a 13-year-old Missouri girl who hanged herself after a failed MySpace romance — later uncovered as a hoax — say they have yet to receive an apology from the family they blame for their daughter’s death

[Squarethecircle]

... There's no way they wouldn't, and didn't they in the original story? This is sounding awfully fishy to me.

[feederband]

... There's no way they wouldn't, and didn't they in the original story? This is sounding awfully fishy to me.

No they didn't...Sorry fish got away...Again...

[Squarethecircle]

... There's no way they wouldn't, and didn't they in the original story? This is sounding awfully fishy to me.

No they didn't...Sorry fish got away...Again...

Actually, you're thinking of the wrong fish; I've grabbed by the tail, my friend. It's far more incriminating if the stories are consistent...

[gtalum]

When you get parents messing with kids heads that causes them to commit suicide chopping their heads off at the time just sounds resonable.

Yeah, if you're a psychopath.

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

My problem with a lot of the replys in this thread is the fact they are pretty hypocritical. Calling for those involved to be jailed for life, wishing them to get ebola, and other completly disproportinate punishments. Don't you think that that makes you almost as bad?

If those people (the ones that made the girl kill herself) really sent the message
saying that she should die then that is telling someone to kill themself
and the perpetrators KNOW that the 13 year old is depressed, etc which means
this is basically manslaugther because they know she is mentally unstable and they
are telling a mentally unstable person that the world is better without them that
is Manslaughter. Lock those people up in prison- the people who encouraged
the suicide.

[Chacor]

Manslaughter |ˌmanslɔːtə|
noun
the crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought, or otherwise in circumstances not amounting to murder

This case is far too broad for anyone to say it's manslaughter. In general, be careful what you (everyone in general) post here, lest you overstep the lines and step into defamation.

[Regit]

This is a bizarre case and indeed fishy. However, the adults should be charged with impersonation. Impersonation (even of an imaginary person) is a crime. No basis whatsoever for murder or manslaughter, though.

That being said, adults who would do that to a thirteen year old girl are truly sick individuals.

[Ptarmigan]

This is a bizarre case and indeed fishy. However, the adults should be charged with impersonation. Impersonation (even of an imaginary person) is a crime. No basis whatsoever for murder or manslaughter, though.

That being said, adults who would do that to a thirteen year old girl are truly sick individuals.

You know when I first heard of it, I thought it was a hoax. It seem WAY too bizarre for me. From what I have read, some of the messages were sexual in nature.