What astounds me is that parents who know their kids are being threatened, taunted, etc., online, don’t think of pulling the damn plug! I guess it’s basically the same mental paralysis that makes some parents keep sending their kids to a school that is giving their kids condoms, or isn’t teaching them to read, or where they are being bullied.
School is a hoax! A deadly, soul-killing, body-killing, expensive hoax. The longest-running, most expensive, and most successful hoax ever foisted on the American People.
Shoot, the Meiers probably thought that this penpal relationship with Josh was the best thing since sliced bread. No more worries about their moody daughter. Or so they thought. What if instead of a cruel hoax, he was a stalker? a rapist?
Not just an American phenomenon. C. S. Lewis' painful memoirs of "Belsen" come to mind.
“What astounds me is that parents who know their kids are being threatened, taunted, etc., online, don’t think of pulling the damn plug!”
How dare you inject common sense into the discussion! LOL! This kid was a psychological mess long before the on-line hoax took place, and this girl’s mother was nutz to allow this on-line romance to continue based on the alleged Josh never calling or coming over to meet with her daughter. How naive is that? This family I smell, was a mess also, as evidenced by the quick divorce that took place after their daughter’s death. As to the Drews, they tried to make overtures to discuss the matter, but were rejected. Who knows what their side of the story truly is. This whole thing smells. If I were the Drews, I’d pull up stakes, move out of town, and contemplate the dangers of the internet and their possible culpability on taking a bad joke too far.