What's wrong with ppl!?
 

I found this VERY sickening, especially coming from an supposed adult!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?nav=hcmodule

EDIT: Ow, and the judge is an arse too.

Childish and really sick indeed :nope:
really a low act to bully a depressed 13 yeard old teenager

HunterICX

What a stupid retarted woman, she ought to get put in the chair and pluged into the wall for just being a stupid a**.:nope:

A 13 year old shouldn't be on myspace imho, especially an obviously emotionally unstable 13 year old who can't take the insult slinging world of the internets.

I'm probably just scarred by the place though, after playing games like Eve Online, WoW, other mmos and forums, you don't really get offended by things people type. (Or say in the case of teamspeak and ventrillo)

Stupid broad, that's for sure. But you can't hardly blame all of it on her. The people who should be punished in this case are the kids' parents. If you have a 13-year old with emotional issues and you don't know about it and also let the kid freely roam the internet without overseeing her you have a SERIOUS parenting issue.

Speechless....

I think you're being way too harsh on the parents here... Emotional issues aren't always the parents fault. Such things are just as likely to be caused by bullying or teasing at school and not fitting in. Some kids tend to close off from their parents, telling them everything is fine or just go quiet, and parents can do little to reach their kids this way. Every situation is different and complex. There's been plenty of suicide cases that just came out of the blue, where not even the parents suspected anything.

Easy fix tho - keep the computer your kids use in an open area! at the very least, have the screen visible from the doorway.

many many problems solved :)

As for this woman, I'd like to say she'll have to live with it for the rest of her life, but the impression i've got of her is that she doesn't and won't regret it one iota.

From what I've read about how she went about it, it showed alot of planning and intent from day one. What makes it worse is that she has shown no remorse over her actions.:stare:

Agree with you baggy on how to keep a better eye on what you kids do on the net! Also checking on sites they visit is a good way of nipping problems in the bud.

Whoa there, no one should have to take insult slinging and it shouldn't be expected.

The woman who did this is emotionally unstable. Granted I don't think myspace or bebo are a place for 13 year olds. Frankly I think sites like that are sad anyway.

Thing is what kind of person wakes up and decides "let's pretend to be thirteen and upset them..."?

You don't need cyberspace to terrorize somebody.
I've just seen a perfect example of something similar in RL, only it did not yet lead to any injuries.
Just giving (unprofessional) legal advice to people I know has convinced me never to do anything with criminal law...
Just too depressing.

I am finding women like the parable of the tounge...both are an "unruly evil which no man can tame".

That's all I have to say about that Forrest. :know:

I'm torn on this case. On one hand, that was a pretty mean thing to do from the defendants side. On the other, that judge and jury set a dangerous precedent for users of the internet that might affect everyone. A catch 22 with this case.

Agreed.

I sure as hell wouldnt want my kids getting onto 4chan or /b/.

Lory Drew yes a sick person wasn't responsible for megan meiers suicide. Megan Killed her self. She did it and no one else.

Megan was also sick. Her parents missed all the signs. That is their consequence for their error in raising their child.

Lory Drew a sick person needs help just as much as Megan did.

Both people equally are not normal.

We all use bogus names and images of who we are on the net. Are we sick criminals too?

We can't isolate ourselves from the worlds bad influences but we can educate ourselves to survive in it better. Megans parents didn't give their daughter strength to survive in this sick world.

In my eyes Megans parent are the ones mostly responsible for Megans fait. Lory was just the final fuel to the raging fire.

Lory isn't a criminal here just a screwed up person with major issue that needs professional help.

IMO, the women who instigated the ficticious boy online is nothing more than a kid who has not grown up. She should receive some sort of punishment for the very least in breaking the rules of the myspace site. As for the girls parents, I feel for them however, 13 year old on a computer needs to be monitored. As we have come to find out, the internet is a new found place for preditors of all kinds of whack-os.

Wolfehunter, I think you are bit harsh on the girls parents. Todays child is exposed to everything and I mean EVERYTHING. Parents today can and do spend their time looking out and doing their best to keep the crap from seeping in. Our liberal society takes everything to the edge and likes to see if they can get away with it. When I was a kid movie ratings were G, PG, R and XXX. Now it is PG-13 in the mix which is really a gray area of what is acceptable for a 13 year old and what is not. Hollywoods perception of PG-13 is very much different then my perception of a PG-13 movie. Do I look before I say yes to my 13 year old? Sure do. Case and point, the movie Twilight is out and my daughter wanted to see it with her buds. I cased the movie, saw a review that stated no sex or violence. Read a few more reviews and made the decision this movie was fine for her to see. So, I was able to look after my daughter for her best interest and her young impressionable mind. However, there are things I can not get to before it happens. For example, the internet. No matter how many pop up blockers I have, some twisted arse looking to peddle porn for a dollar gets through. It happened to 10 year old. She popped in on a kids website, up pops a porn site with naked women. She did not say anything for 3 days. My wife and I did not know about it until she came crying to us that she saw a naked women on the kids website. No matter were a parent turns, sex and sexually related items, advertisment, ideas are all over the place. It is simply out of control and most parents do their best to keep it away until that day explaining it their child arrives. It is very hard today as everything media related has become a free for all. The internet has become a tool for the worse in some cases. This case is a fine example. This women was thinking like a Jr High School girl who was doing her best to play mind games. It worked and sadly so. She has some mental problems of her own that need to be addressed. For a women this age, this is purely a case of deceit. Letting her go free should not happen however, living with this stigmata of not being trustworthy will follow her for the rest of her life but somehow in her twisted immature mind, she will pull a OJ Simpson and really start to believe she had nothing to do with it. Furthermore, if I was an employer and she showed up on my doorstep, she would not be using a computer at my place of business. Who knows what she is capable of on a computer. She will wear her scarlet letter 'S' from here on out.

The thing is, most people like her distance themselves from the other person behind that screen, Why get offended by someone a thousand miles away?

Also

20/f/CA wanna go have cyber sex Xabba. :p

I think you and I are the only ones who see this. I haven't seen any mention of it anywhere. I may be way off base, not knowing the details of the case or the charges. From what I read, violating "Terms and Conditions" on a website is now a criminal offense?

Terms and conditions are there for a reason. It is just not print to be ignored like most do before the box is checked....'I Agree'. It is the fine print on the internet. Is it any less valid then downloading music and not paying for it? I believe the same terms and conditions are the same yet a woman was successfully prosecuted in the courts for downloading illegally and sharing for free with others on the web.