MySpace Hoax Victim Kills Herself

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by midwesterngirl

It's not the same thing. This was an adult perpetrating a deliberate and cruel hoax on a child that she knew to be unstable.

I doubt the adult knew the actual extent to which the child was unstable - I doubt anyone did, quite honestly, or different actions would have been taken.

Also, being cruel is not the same as causing someone's suicide - this is beside the fact that many breakups end with one person intentionally inflicting hurt on another. I think the analogy rings far more true than you give it credit.

Child vs. Adult is one thing, but that's also part of my point - we're overreacting because of the adult's involvement, when we should be focusing on the painful and preventable loss of a child who likely did not receive the treatment, support or attention she needed.

[midwesterngirl]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

I doubt the adult knew the actual extent to which the child was unstable - I doubt anyone did, quite honestly, or different actions would have been taken.

Also, being cruel is not the same as causing someone's suicide - this is beside the fact that many breakups end with one person intentionally inflicting hurt on another. I think the analogy rings far more true than you give it credit.

Child vs. Adult is one thing, but that's also part of my point - we're overreacting because of the adult's involvement, when we should be focusing on the painful and preventable loss of a child who likely did not receive the treatment, support or attention she needed.

I am sure that the woman in question didn't mean for it to go this far. Cynically or naively I guess,I would just like to assume that an adult should know better from the start than to deliberately set up a situation like this. I'm not even talking about the suicide. I am raising a child around this age (11) and as an adult,I can't even imagine setting up one of her friends in a like situation. I would call it unthinkable to me not in the horrific sense but that I know that I would never even think of something like this as a means to problem solving.

I work with small children for a living so it is very difficult for me to view this situation unemotionally. I can't get past the "what the hell were they thinking" stage.

[KSUViolet06]

This is so sad. The woman definitely wasn't right to meddle in her kid's drama to this extent, but she couldn't have known that this girl would kill herself. I wonder how her parents didn't know she was in such an unstable state of mind.

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

This is so sad. The woman definitely wasn't right to meddle in her kid's drama to this extent, but she couldn't have known that this girl would kill herself. I wonder how her parents didn't know she was in such an unstable state of mind.

I saw this story on the news not too long ago. It wasn't secret that the girl who killed herself was on anti-depressants for a very long time.

When the parents tried talking to the woman, her (the woman's) response was "get over it".

That lady has absolutely no remorse for what her actions did and that really bothers me.

The women sent messages (under "Josh's" name) like "the world would be better if you never existed" before the girl committed suicide.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

That lady has absolutely no remorse for what her actions did and that really bothers me.

While I don't think that this woman is criminally responsible for Megan's death, I do find it disaturbing that this woman would go out of her way to create a BLOG about the girl after she died. While I agree that not everything in a blog is always true, I seriously question her sanity (and maturity) for doing this.

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

While I don't think that this woman is criminally responsible for Megan's death, I do find it disaturbing that this woman would go out of her way to create a BLOG about the girl after she died. While I agree that not everything in a blog is always true, I seriously question her sanity (and maturity) for doing this.

. . . and this is exactly illustrative of the point I was trying to make.

There is evidence the blog is not, in fact, Lori Drew. So . . . yeah - let's wait to find out if it really is hers, before we pile on any more?

[sageofages]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

. . . and this is exactly illustrative of the point I was trying to make.

There is evidence the blog is not, in fact, Lori Drew. So . . . yeah - let's wait to find out if it really is hers, before we pile on any more?

If in fact the blog is a "hoax" perpetrated against Lori Drew...for the hoax she perpetrated against Megan...

It would seem to be a collosal bit of karmic justice, would it not?

Be careful what you say and do in life to others, as fate has a big old way of bring it back to bite you in the @ss!