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Originally Posted by cynic

Read it, Sweetie, the parents had tried to get their daughter to stay off of the internet...but try doing that with a 12-13 year old.....all of their social lives are on the internet.....they had talked to her about this boy (that the adult woman was pretending to be a 16 year old boy interested in the girl) and tried to get her to not correspond with him.

The day she killed herself, her mom was at the dentist's....she had tried to get the kid to come with her, but the kid was determined to find out why the "boy" didn't like her any more and by that time "he" had a lot of other kids talked into bullying her online.....she called her mom at the dentist and the mom kept telling her to sign off and the kid kept saying she would.....the mom left the dentist office and by the time she got home, she and the Dad talked to the girl and thought she was settled down.....when they went up to get her for dinner...she was hanging dead.....

What more could they have done?

When I was 13, my mother didn't have to "try" to get me to do anything. If she said "you are coming with me to the dentist", then that is what happened.

The mother could have terminated the kid's access at any time by locking down the computer she was using. Unplug the computer from the internet and take the cable with you. Take the COMPUTER with you. Disable it any way you can. If she'd really wanted that kid off the net, she could have made it so she couldn't sign on at home.

To me the mother has to bear some of the responsibility here. She had a child who was severely depressed even before this whole MySpace debacle. Did she ever get her any help?