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How a cell phone picture led to girl's suicide
October 23, 2010 at
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Also, as a person who was bullied relentlessly for over 5 years, I can tell you that it is horrible. I know how she felt. You really think that sometimes just not being around would help. Sometimes you think that they are the ones who should hurt. I absolutely see why kids snap and harm themselves or others. It is a shame that the social worker did not follow up and neither did teachers or even her friends.
Or digital cameras!
Or 35mm cameras!
Or polariod cameras!
Make underage relationships illegal!
Make scarves illegal!
Make breasts illegal!
Anymore illogical ideas?
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She's a child.
You two just earned a spot on my ignore list.
This is exactly how this kind of thing happens. Children should be forgiven a certain amount of mistakes.
What kind of grown person uses the word "whore" to describe a 13 year old girl? I guess the answer (for me) is - not the kind of person I want to hear from.
It was literally in her own hands. Blaming other people isn't the key.
What type of 13 yr old girl texts a pic of her tits out to her bf?
Judging by other debates that you and I have had, you don't make the best decisions for yourself at the age you are now, so I'm confident when I say that you probably didn't make the best decisions at all times when you were 13.
It's a moment in time. She was 13.
What kind of grown person blames a child for a moment in time?
The Ignore List grows.
Judging by other debates that you and I have had, you don't make the best decisions for yourself at the age you are now, so I'm confident when I say that you probably didn't make the best decisions at all times when you were 13.
It's a moment in time. She was 13.
What kind of grown person blames a child for a moment in time?
The Ignore List grows.
I'm sorry.. what decisions do I make that aren't good now? And actually I was a really good kid up till college, but I'm glad that you're "confident" you know my life better than me.
Call it blame if you want to... I'm just pointing out the obvious. She chose to take and send the picture... she chose to end her life.
You cry out about people blaming her for the actions SHE committed, yet you have no problem assigning blame to everyone but the person that actually committed the actions.
Though in all fairness, to be called a "camwhore" she'd have to do it repeatedly.
Judging by other debates that you and I have had, you don't make the best decisions for yourself at the age you are now, so I'm confident when I say that you probably didn't make the best decisions at all times when you were 13.
Exactly. Lots of people of all ages make stupid mistakes and children don't have the life-experience to know that not everyone can be trusted. The poor kid thought she could trust her boyfriend with a naughty picture and he betrayed her and she could have just taken it as a learning experience.
Instead, it was all blown out of proportion by hundreds (maybe more) other kids, who weren't involved and shouldn't have had anything to do with it. If it had stayed between her, her boyfriend, and a few other people, she probably wouldn't have become so distraught, but to her, it probably felt like the whole world knew and the whole world thought these terrible things about her...and always would.
As we saw from the college kid who just took his own life, even older people make these same "moment in time" decisions, so why would it surprise anyone that a child would make a decision like that?
And why would any thinking adult propagate the idea that she was anything but an experimenting child?
No wonder our kids treat each other this way. Look how adults are willing to talk about kids and the names they're willing to throw around - how they're willing to question the character of a child who tried something out once and got caught.
I'm sure that you three (in my quotes below) were all angelic when you were 13 and never did anything that you could have been embarrassed over, if it had come out in the news. I mean, surely no one with a videocamera could have caught you...oh...I don't know...playing with yourself? Stealing? Playing doctor? Vandalizing? Setting something on fire? Beating someone up? Getting beaten up? Doing something that could have called your sexuality into question?
Just something small. Nothing big.
But it could have been taken out of context and made into something big by kids (and adults) with nasty dispositions, who wanted to ruin your life. Just because it didn't happen to you doesn't mean it couldn't have happened to you.
Stop asking for them.
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