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Originally Posted by Joshua Nightshade  Pushing an impressionable teenager into hurting themselves through emotional manipulation is what this woman did. She all but supplied the rope for that child to kill herself with. |
If that were really true then we should be imprisoning every cruel teenager who teased and treated a classmate like shit until it pushed them over the edge. It was a terribly cruel prank this woman pulled, no doubt, but it was not a criminal act, and making it one would open up an enormous can of worms that's best left sealed. It also wasn't her actions alone. Is she also responsible for Megan Meir's chronic depression? As much as that might feel like a satisfying conclusion it's overly simplistic and unrealistic. Kids can be incredibly cruel (believe me I know. I had a big target painted on my back through my pre-teen and teenage years), and sometimes adults acting like children can be incredibly cruel, but she didn't kill that girl. The only one responsible for that is Megan Meir. The law simply can't be abused as a tool of revenge, and if this had stuck and she went to prison for it it would have been a miscarriage of justice.