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.