For instance “keeping quiet” isn’t something i’d be considering after i knew someone had just driven my daughter to suicide.

But yes it’s a terrible situation, although it sounds like the parents were quite aware of what was happening.. Surely they could’ve done something to stop these people interacting with their child.

From the sounds of it the other family was quite mentally disturbed as well, Idlely and knowingly destroying a young girl. But I know situations like these rarely end up being that clear cut.

“The parents of the other girl’s family and a few people from the community all joined in on this online harassment.” It sounds more like she’s had a tough time with a lot of people, than a specific incident that ‘killed’ her. Infact it sounds like the typical schoolyard group teasing that kids have been going through for eons, just delivered online.

Children (and yes adults too) can be very cruel with their teasing, and here in Australia we’re some of the worst at it. I was both an ‘overprotected’ and ‘overachieving’ child, and I’ve been teased more than once with material that could’ve driven me all the way to suicide. That is, if I hadn’t grown the confidence to dish it out back where it came from, or the maturity to know that sometimes in life, I will find someone that won’t like me, and if they don’t want accept me for who I am then they’re simply not worth my time. Theres plenty more people out there, and plenty of them will.

To look over my own past, if I had’ve committed suicide, the blame (if not on myself) would NOT be on the people that teased me, but my parents for not teaching me or allowing me the room to develop the skills to protect myself early enough in life. I’ve seen 7 and 8 year old kids with these skills, which I didn’t develop until late into high school, and some 30 year olds I know still don’t have. It’s purely up to upbringing.

If anything I look back now at events during my school life with a fondness, for it was these ‘bullys’ that forced me to face my fears and made me become the man I am today.

In the end the ability to be insulted by someone, and look them back in the face and tell them no, you’re wrong, I’m f***ing awesome, is the very definition of self-confidence. The very lack of which is what killed this girl.

I certainly couldn’t blame MySpace and I’m still not convinced at blaming the people that did all this to that poor girl either. I’d love someone to show me a person who’s gone through life and never been teased. Hers may have been particularly harsh and ill timed, but I don’t see anything thats happened to her thats exceptionally unusual from what happens to thousands upon thousands of other kids.. It’s the modern day rite of passage. “Survival of the fittest” even as I mentioned before.

“Children are being KILLED WITH BULLETS & BOMBS and their parents can’t do nothing about it, while another child gets insulted a few times while her parents could have but did nothing.”

Very well put! I think that sums it up nicely. In the end there was very little Myspace or a 3rd party could’ve done to help this girl, but plenty the parents could’ve done. Infact they were the only ones in a position to see what was happening and do something about it. Their blaming others is understandable, but unfortunately just not honest. They were far from helpless bystanders, they just didn’t do enough to save her.

Also just for the record, I may subscribe to ’survival of the fittest’, but I also give my $35 a month to ‘Save the Children’. The kids that are dying without even a chance to succeed – thats criminal.

Circunstances are clear “basil”, kid was on the verge of doing the suicide routine and a tiny push was all it took. What facts do you want me to consider? The kid was a grade A loser and proved it with flying colours. And i would bet you know about as much as me so why do you get off on telling me to stop writting?

And i’m a “computer geek”? What do you know about me you moron? Do you know what i do for a living? what interaction have we had? Cuz i sure don’t remember

I bet you don’t even know what survival of the fittest really means and you’re getting ape on me? LOL… Please don’t kill yourself too, i could never live with myself afterwards… Oh wait… I wouldn’t give a crap…

stop writing a load of platitudes when you obviously know very little about the circumstances

as for survival of the fittest, you’re a computer geek ffs

I was only stating the entirety of the facts since a lot of it was left out the story and a lot of people commenting were saying stuff that went against things in the actual reports (parents not caring about her, not close to her, not monitoring computer usage).

I do admit that bullying by peers is something that people just have to deal with, but bullying by adults who pretend to be peers and say things they know (and yes they knew) would trigger a bad reaction in her brain? Hell, that’s just a tad bit demented. Had she been a little older or even made it to dinner she may have learned to cope.

Well, then if the girl was so far gone this could have happened anytime. The internet has zero to do with the fact the girl was suicidal and the parents raised her to be a freaking EMO… If teasing led to her suicide it could have happened anytime anywhere. The stuff you described sounds the opposite of leaving your child without assistance. The parents sheltered the kid so much that they basically made sure she would be in very poor shape to fight off agressors.

Face it, no amount of protection will ever save a weak minded individual from blaming the world and do the suicide coward way out. This is a stupid law and will NEVER be enforced.

“Society needs to develop SOME method whereby people must actually FIGHT to survive (ie, survival of the fittest,) or we’re literally going to pity ourselves to death”

No need. There will always be some way of selection. Like “commit suicide if the kid next door makes fun of you online”. Honestly, i see little need to coushin all of society to make sush weak/unfit people survive. If they do survive (highly unlikely) what will they, in the future, do to their kids? Perhaps drown them in the tub or something! Waste of resources.

I feel for the parents of the child (losing a child must be horrible) but maybe next time they’ll raise a fighter instead of such a loser.