Posted on 11/19/2007 10:11:44 PM PST by Ptarmigan
Prayers for ALL of these people. I think they surely need them. I hope Megan rests in peace. I think any mother such as Mrs Drew who has to get involved with her daughter’s life to the point of setting up a fake online account & playing games with a girl who they already knew & had issues ought to be totally ashamed of herself. Why parent’s need to take on their children’s fights is beyond me. I think of the cheerleader mothers, the scocor mother who hit the old man etc. This is just plain sick, twisted & evil.
If you haven't already seen it, there's more in the earlier article.
I must be missing something. My two boys, 17 and 15, are doing just fine with no email, no MySpace accounts, no IMs, ... no personal accounts of any kind online. They've never had any. They don't need any.
So, I'm left wondering, especially since it was so bad and it went on for 3 years(!!), what on earth prevented this mother (and child) from simply shutting off all the avenues for all that "cyberspace bullying"?
I don’t see how technology is outpacing laws. Harassment is harassment regardless whether it is verbal, phone, or Internet.
I wonder if the fact that she could have turned it off anytime she wanted to prevents it from rising to the level of harassment.
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