Reason #11,378 that MySpace Blows

Besides being a breeding ground for sexual deviants, obsessive wrestling fans, and tone-deaf Italian immigrants, every once in a while the bizarre world of MySpace will produce a terrible story like this one. You can read it if you have the time or I'll just give you the cliff notes.

-13 year old girl who gets bullied in school and has huge self-esteem issues
-Parents allow her to create a MySpace page under their supervision
-Meets a boy who leaves a lot of nice comments on her page and falls in love
-Self-esteem issues go away
-Boy starts calling her a fat slut
-Self-esteem issues come back
-Parents take away MySpace
-Girl hangs herself
-A year later (now) it is discovered that the boy never existed and was actually the mother of another girl in the neighborhood performing some sadistic hoax.
-Parents want justice but there's no law against what the mother did
-Parents go on media tour crying to every Matt Lauer and Larry King they come across

I think it's an interesting case to say the least but I'm not really sure if the woman deserves to be legally punished or if having to spend the rest of her miserable existence knowing she engineered a hoax resulting in the suicide of a 13 year old girl is punishment enough. What you say?

Comments

[DFS]

"if having to spend the rest of her miserable existence knowing she engineered a hoax resulting in the suicide of a 13 year old girl is punishment enough. What you say?"

that assumes she has, I dont know, a conscience.

[Art Vandelay]

Heh. Not necessarily a safe assumption I guess.

there are some horrible narcissistic "adults" out there

[AFS]

You are one sick and lonely person if you have to pretend to be a teenage boy to play tricks on the computer to someone. Come on...kids have it hard enough these days, as parents and adults we are supposed to PROTECT our children, not hurt them or cause them to hurt themselves! She is sick and needs to be punished some how, let the punishment fit the crime!

[Art Vandelay]

let the punishment fit the crime!

What's the crime though? Unfortunately being a sadistic twat isn't against the law.

[Roger]

Let a Judge and jury decide what her punishment should be.

[VANESSA]

SURE I WOULD BE MAD AND SAD BUT I SILL WOULDENT HANG OR KILL MY SELF

All I can say is I'm completely disgusted that parents of a friend of Megan's did this to her and there is no law to throw them in jail! Unfrickinbelievable. My thoughts and prayers to out to the Meiers.

[Crazy Joe Davola]

What draws these random people in? Not that they are not welcome...as long as they don't use all caps to type.

[gina]

what that girl done was really stupid but their had to been signs of depression that parents could have seen to get this girl some help. Depression has to be treated seriously.
My heart goes out to the meier family they really do have a tough road ahead of them.

[me]

does anyone know of anything that we can do?

[Assman]

*smelling blood in the water*

i really think the lady should go to jail. thats sad. and i dont think she would want any bodydoing that to her kids.

[Art Vandelay]

does anyone know of anything that we can do?

What do you have in mind?

*smelling blood in the water*

You prayed for this, didn't you?

[Katie]

I think the mother should have her children taken away. If she is treating other peoples kids like that I could only imagine how her kids are treating other kids. We all have to be positive role models for kids growing up otherwise the world is going to be a terrible place to live in.

[Assman]

Let a Judge and jury decide what her punishment should be.

Yes. Right after a Police Officer determines what her crime is.

You prayed for this, didn't you?

Considering that Salma's breasts made it on the site today, I'd say that my AofG prayers are starting to get answered.

i think that the mother should b punnished by the court with jurys.she is a wicked woman and i believe the family of the deceased must get justice.my prayers are with them,now im scared of giving my 15year old a computer of her own.

[Smiley]

I think parents who sign there child on myspace when they are not old enough is wrong to begin with. The mother that made up a fake name should be punished. That was very wrong. She should put herself in the other parents place and think about what she did. This could of been her daughter.

[johhny]

SUE THIS.. IDIOTS WHY ARE YOU NOT MONTORING YOUR KID RETARDS. IT IS 2007 NOT YOU KILLED YOUR KID

Parents of MySpace hoax victim speak out
Nov. 19: TODAY’s Matt Lauer talks to Ron and Tina Meier, parents of a teen who took her own life last year after being harassed online.

[nolan]

if u ask me she should go to jail! u can't get much sicker and sadistic as that! she made that girl commit suicide, just because she wanted to make her feel bad or what ever her sick plan was! i think it's messed up that she goes and called that girl all this stuff then the girl kills herself, and she sits back and does nothing about it... she goes on living with the fact she killed soem lil girl... that sick!

[Lefty]

Nobody can "make" anyone commit suicide. What this woman did was dispicable, but certainly she couldn't have been planning on a suicide. There is no shortage of people who are ready for suicide. The names someone might call them before they go isn't the cause. Maybe we should be looking at her parents. Why did this girl have such terrible self-esteem issues in the first place?

I think that the mother that did this should face some kind of consequences. There surely has to be some law that was broken here. I'm don't think she wanted something to happen to the girl, but who knows? To make up an identity and then to say horrible things makes one wonder.
Some adults can be very sick.

[Assman]

SUE THIS.. IDIOTS WHY ARE YOU NOT MONTORING YOUR KID RETARDS.

If I had a kid retard, I'd probably montor it too.

IT IS 2007 NOT YOU KILLED YOUR KID

Yeah, back in You Killed Your Kid, gasoline only cost $1.50 a gallon.

[Jessica]

Wow! i really don't know what to say to that! what kind of sick woman/ mother would do that? i dont think she needs jail but she does need metal help..badly!

[Assman]

i dont think she needs jail but she does need metal help..badly!

Ted Nugent may be available for lessons.