Could I Get Opinions on This?

[Weedhound]

I just read this story and am so amazed by it that I'm honestly not sure what to think.....beside being horrified by the entire thing.
Could some of you let me know what you think about all this?

FOXNews.com - Mom: MySpace Hoax Led to Daughter's Suicide - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312018,00.html)

[killerweed420]

It takes all kinds I guess to make up our population. Any adults that pull this shit should be dealt with severely. This is one of those times when a parent should be allowed a little retribution.
If I sat on a jury where they were trying to confict a father of beating the hell of the other family I would say Not Guilty. Occassionally breaking the laws are ok. And this would be one of those cases.

[zebulon]

Terrible.....poor girl

[Weedhound]

I found it amazing as well killer.....for a PARENT to actually sit and do that.....to a kid....ANYBODY'S kid....I'm so blown away by the thought that I can't quite grasp it.

And there is no LAW against what these adults did? I can't believe it!!

[Dmo18]

i cant even speak right now. if i could choose between the the girl who started the fake profile or her parents to die in a car wreck.......i choose all three

[Spoken Word]

Hmm.. You are right, it's horrible for a "family" to do that but you have to think about what we don't know. Maybe this girl Megan, "a 13-year-old who suffered from depression and attention deficit disorder", had done some "negative" stuff before this whole thing. I'm sure the family didn't want her to kill herself but there's always two sides to the story.

The "fooseball table" makes me think they were friends. That this isn't just about Megan and "josh".

But in the end, what's important is that she commited suicide and the people that lied to the 13 year old should be held responsible.

[Breukelen advocaat]

What the adults did was reprehensible, but if that girl was unstable enough to kill herself because of an an online chat with a a stranger she would have done it eventually anyway.

[Spoken Word]

On second thought.. Maybe the parents didn't have anything to do with it. It was just Megan's friend and her mother is just taking the blame for her.
This sounds like typical middle school behavior gone wrong. It just worries me since it's so common and I don't think it's the first time it has ended like this.

[Weedhound]

Oh I agree that there was obviously ALOT of instability in that young girl and really no "one" thing causes someone to commit suicide. I'm much more horrified with the behaviour of the parents involved in helping the hoax...and what they are teaching THEIR children about how to respect other people. Is this REALLY what humanity has become???

[Weedhound]

On second thought.. Maybe the parents didn't have anything to do with it. It was just Megan's friend and her mother is just taking the blame for her.
This sounds like typical middle school behavior gone wrong. It just worries me since it's so common and I don't think it's the first time it has ended like this.


I like this response....this tells me that it feels so wrong to you that you are thinking up reasons that maybe it didn't happen.....I certainly wish it hadn't as well.

[beachguy in thongs]

I read it aloud to my girlfriend, and, couldn't get past the third paragraph.

edit: I went back and started reading the fourth, and, couldn't finish the first sentence.

[jeepboi]

kids are cruel apparently as are some of their parents.

the girl wasnt stable to begin with but apparently her parents were having trouble too, so all in all. the other child and parents are maggots, and the girl that died needed to be surpervised a little better.

sad story though.

[VoidLivesOn]

Bored Suburban Parents + Myspace = Little girl suicide.

Fuck whatever that little girl did in the past, the parents who made the fake profile are fucking imature, loser ass low lives. And they should be charged with something. I also think if ol' girl found some boy on myspace as a justifiable means to kill herself, then her death wasn't in vein...apparently. Because god knows what she would do after her first real life relationship. Oh well.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

What the adults did was reprehensible, but if that girl was unstable enough to kill herself because of an an online chat with a a stranger she would have done it eventually anyway.

I disagree. People with severe depression are always prone to killing themselves, but plenty still don't go through with it. It takes a trigger, and in this case she gained an emotional attachment to this friend who suddenly ditched her, posted all over the place that she's a an obese slut and such, then reinforced her already low self-esteem by telling her the world would be better off without her. This can be an immensely bad emotional blow, especially to a 13 year old girl.

[Spoken Word]

Yes, but why in the world would adults want to do this to a 13 year old child? It sounds like some middle school prank. And I'd bet that the other child is around the age of 13 as well.
you are completely right about one thing, I wish this for no one. A terrible loss.

[Nochowderforyou]

How do I feel about it? It's just another fucked up thing to add to the list of pointless crap done by human beings.

[Reefer Rogue]

My opinion is that Megan was rash in her decision. I don't think they should be charged.

[Bluberrybudboy]

There was a movie with a similar thing going on. I can't remember the name but i know the girl from spy kids was in it. I felt so much hatred for the ppl torturing her. Its so cruel and i don't know how any person could ever do that kinda stuff to another

[mfqr]

Here's my honest opinion on this matter...

The person posing as "Josh" did not mean for her to commit suicide, it just does not seem like they were thinking "Oh, well, she's depressed. Let me go talk to her for a month under the name 'josh' and make her like me. Then I'm going to tell her that she's cruel, and she'll commit suicide!"

I don't see why they should be prosecuted. What could the charges be, they did not force her to kill herself, she did it herself. Let's say that you were making fun of some kid in a chatroom one day, and then you hear later that he killed himself because he took what you said seriously. Would it be your fault that he committed suicide, even though you did not know he was suicidal?

The question is, I guess... did the family that was tricking this girl know she was suicidal?

I just don't know how you could bring a case like this to court. I mean, you can take anything to court, but I just don't see how the person who did this could be proven to be guilty of anything other than deceiving a 13 year old girl into thinking she was talking to another 13 year old boy.

And for the record, I don't think it is their fault. The girl committed suicide. Could anyone show me any conclusive evidence that she committed suicide because "Josh" told her she was cruel, and was not going to talk to her? How do we even know for sure that she committed suicide for that reason?

I think the girl's family is going over the top here.

Again, what could the person who posed as "Josh" even possibly be charged with anyway? Certainly not Homidide... and certainly not Manslaughter...

Personally, I think the family who is threatening to prosecute the person who posed as "Josh" is stupid. They're just in grief, and pissed off, and are looking for any way to get some satisfaction.

[delusionsofNORMALity]

i don't see how any of you can make excuses for such scum. i may be one cold hearted son of a bitch, but when i heard this story on my way home this evening it made me feel physically ill. i read above some of you saying that the girl was unstable and that her parents should have watched her more closely. do any of you remember 13??? is there such a thing as a stable adolescent? i would love for someone to find a way to prosecute these bastards, but chances are they'll just move to another town and live their lives as is nothing had ever happened. whatever happened to the concept of taking personal responsibility for your actions? the kicker to the story and a true glimpse into nature of these monsters is that they had the audacity to file a police report over the foosball table incident after hiding their own crime against this family for six weeks.

[Weedhound]

Well I see your point.....just don't agree with it My understanding of the story (so far) is that the two girls were friends....then not friends for whatever reason. And yes, according to the story the parents who were involved in the hoax WERE aware the victim had mental issues.....they knew the family well and the FAMILIES had been friends. Don't know if this changes anything but there it is.

I think ANY adult who manipulates a child ( or is even AWARE that THEIR CHILD is pulling said shit) is no better than....say.....perhaps a pedophile. They are manipulating and lying to kids in order the screw them.......one way or another.

I don't for one second believe that ANYONE intended for this girl to hurt herself....they just didn't really CARE what she felt because they wanted to do something and so they simply did it without regard for anyone or anything else. I can EASILY compare this to the driving drunk who NEVER intended to hurt anyone.....which doesn't make one bit of difference to the victim does it? And it CERTAINLY doesn't mitigate the behaviour of the adults involved.....or their moral responsibility either.

I'm also extremely sad for the child who initially made up the profile (it was her parents who assisted with it..allegedly) for several reasons. She not only has NO chance to ever be a decent, caring, self-respecting person with role models like that but her own parents have now mostly likely given HER the gift of mental problems to deal with for the rest of her life due to her own guilt about her friend. What lovely people.