NEWS: Terrible Woman's Myspace Alias Leads to Teen's Suicide.

With all due respect: you were lucky. So was your mom. Period. Your experience means no less than that--because that's amazing, and I'm glad for you--but neither does it mean anything more than that.

You were lucky. Extremely so, I would say. Not everyone is, and not everyone's parents are. Have some respect--I know you think you're talking about a specific incident here, but I don't doubt that many of us know kids who have killed themselves and are extremely, extremely offended by your strident and ill-informed assertion that their heartbroken parents are somehow to blame. For every case you can find in which that's so, there are countless more in which that's not even close.

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You were fortunate enough to have a mother who, whatever her failings as a parent, was in touch with your emotional state and cared enough to do something about it when she sensed something was wrong.

If there's one thing the internet will never run out of, it's know-nothing blame-the-victim douchebags. Although it's kind of nice because they always quickly out themselves for the terrible, terrible people that they are.

Case in point.

You can't blame the parents in that way.
I know that personally I was online at that age, my Mum looked at what I was viewing and doing, but I was good at covering my tracks. It seems like this girl actually told her mother what she was doing, she was seeing more of the conversations with this "Josh" than she would of those her daughter had offline with people she went to school with.
Also, it was stated that her parents were aware of her mental issues and she was being medicated. A good many parents do not even notice these issues and put them down to being a moody teenager. To me this shows the parents did take notice and care of their daughter.

Even if the parents could have monitored a little more (which I don't agree with), they were never going to imagine what was going to happen, how can you condemn two parents who allowed their depressed daughter to speak to someone who made her happy. Of course they'd have known if the friendship ended it would be painful, but that is an integral part of growing up.

I don't believe we have any right to condemn these parents, they have lost their daughter through the actionss of a sick twisted woman, who in my opinion should have her own children taken away, how could that possibly be someone who is bringing up her own daughter in a healthy way?