Missouri mom indicted in deadly MySpace hoax

I hope you can understand the difference between what this woman did and your "people need to be nicer posters" spiel that you have been on, for they are galactically and didactically different. She conspired to ruin this girl's life. Someone who hurts your feelings on a message board by posting contrary opinions is not exactly the same thing.

Nice try, though.

dont agree with it. The kid killed herself, she wasnt forced to....to me it is that simple. Only the strong survive, she wasnt one of them.

I thought the case over when it first appeared and wondered why she wasn't in jail. Happily, the issue was reviewed under existing laws to bring forth justice. As time goes on, more issues will be raised and looked at in regard to the computer and cyberspace realm.

On the other hand...people...

I hope this proves a major point in how belligerency,sniping and degrading this sort of behaviour can really fuck up your life as well others and possibly kill them over it. WTF's wrong with that lady telling a young girl she was worthless?

The woman who did this is absolutely sick. I'm sure she has serious social problems in real life, so she starts to fight with people over the internet.

However, it isn't good to react like this when somebody breaks up with you or says you'd better be dead. I mean, you should have some shield around you that makes it impossible for others to hurt you so much by words.

exactly. people say "kill yourself" or "...woul dbe better off without you.." alll the time. if anything its the fault of the "victim's" parents for not helping their child raise her self esteem. this is just another example of society needing to find someone/thing to blame for every little problem. someone's always gotta be the scapegoat. and the charges just sound ridiculous. you know the DA sat in his/her office for hours trying to come up with that one.

i hope you guys realize that this is our "freedom" of speech slowly fading away.

now this woman is gonna have to spend astronomical amounts of money to defend herself. and its not even her fault.

I was waiting to say this for so long, (I hope its accurate) But I think Tyra Banks was the one who broke this story on her show. I remember I saw the girl's mom on her show when Tyra did an episode on school bullies. WAY TO GO TYRA!

so if someone owes me $20. and they dont have it, so i say " go rob a bank " and they actually do it, and someone ends up dead, is it my fault? i men i did tell them to go do it

^your correlation is completely irrelevant. this woman posing as a lover actually said "you don't deserve to live"

Those of you who are basically saying "the little bitch killed herself, it's her choice" don't have much understanding of depression and mental illness, do you? I hope you experience it someday, so you have a more balanced point of view.

wishing mental illness on people? wow

she said " the world would be better without you " . she didnt say "kill yourself" . why aren't we holding the "victim's" parents accountable for anything?

people say mean shit to eachother all the time. now we're locking people up for saying mean things to others? seriously? shit dc deep just wished mental illness on us.

am i the only one who finds it strange that you can shoot an unarmed man 41 times and get acquitted , but you tell someone "the world is better of without you" , they kill theirselves, and you get indicted

Geechee - you're not the only one who finds it strange that someone could be acquitted after shooting an unarmed man 41 times.

But you appear to be suggesting that because A was acquitted for action X, B should not be indictable for action Y. Which doesn't make any sense to me. Our legal system is flawed to be sure, but if potentially criminal actions (or intent - which is the key to case in Missouri I believe) first had to be evaluated on a conditional, subjective litmus test based on the outcome of wholly unrelated cases we would have no legal system at all.

As an aside, I've been watching this case for quite a while and from what I understand this was not a cut and dry "She said the world would be better off without me so I went upstairs an hanged myself." There was on-going, systematic and repeated communications to this girl encouraging her to (at best) hurt herself. Freedom of speech is one thing; an adult intentionally perpetrating psychological abuse on a child to the point that said child takes their own life is something else entirely. Is the woman solely responsible for the girl's death? No. But is the woman culpable? That's what the case is about, it's not a murder trial.

Thank you, I think you made the distinction that is so important in this case. This isn't about "being nice" online or some of the other simplistic arguments people have come up with.

And the number of times when your faulty thinking and/or rude comments are pointed out and you don't get bent out of shape about it....?

Having been suicidal and having a life time predisposition to depression, I find your comment lacking in knowledge sympathy and empathy. I hope you never have to face a deep dark night of the soul.

Please reconsider your thinking.