Nov 29 2008
Moral Guilt - The death of a 13-year old
After all that has been said about how children bullying other children; about how it affects a child to the point of mass homicide and individual suicide (as seen in the surge of school shootings over the years), a parent steps in to bully a 13-year old girl, which eventually drove the 13-year old girl to commit suicide.
In short, the 13-year old had shown the grown woman’s daughter some attitude and discomfort. Now I have worked around children for the last seven years and have raised two children myself, plus I have been a child in this life. I know for a fact that’s the way of life as a teenager, plus I’m not so sure that the grown woman’s daughter did not cause some of the trouble herself coming from a mother like the grown woman because 9 out of 10 times if the child has issues you can look no further than the parents to find out why.
Anyway, so the grown woman and two other people created a fake 16-year old male identity, approached the 13-year old on-line and started a relationship with her – this went on for a time and finally the 16-year old pretend boy, dumped the 13-year old girl and told her that “the world would be a better place without you”.
I will never understand how people can be so cruel to each other. Now this grown women had nothing better to do with her time than to get involved with her daughter’s life to the point of attempting to totally humiliating a 13-year old.
First, she made the little girl feel loved and wanted by a pretend older boy and then, acting as the older boy, she breaks up with the girl and tells her that the world would be better off without her. This was a heartless act committed on an impressionable child just starting out in life and feeling love/infatuation for the first time.
Sometimes a break-up can be a hard thing to deal with as an adult let alone a 13-year old who thinks the world is a good place and that people, for the most part, can be trusted. This vindictive, heartless, immature, grown woman should have been convicted of involuntary manslaughter and should be put in jail for a period of time, she should be branded a convict and never would that title have a truer meaning.
Instead, she gets convicted of some cyber crimes which may even bring probation or community service as her only punishment. This act that she perpetrated against a child, demonstrates a calculated act upon the mind and the spirit of another human being, a child at that.
I tired to tell myself that maybe her biggest punishment is the thought that she would have to live with the knowledge that she caused the death of a child. But you know, any “grown women” who would play those kinds of mind games with a 13-year old child knowing that this is the age when girls (her having been a teenage girl once herself) are maturing and just beginning to come into their own sexuality and a sense of themselves as individuals; she did not know somewhere in her bored, unhappy, vengeful mind, the dangerous possibilities of what her actions alone would do to this child, let alone the final words of “the world would be better off without you” – I think she had more than a clue as to the outcome.
Those words were just the icing on the cake, just the right flavor to push the cake’s rating over the top, or in this case, the words that pushed this child over the top and caused the deed of suicide.
Manipulation of a person’s mind is a dangerous thing at any age, but the manipulation of a child’s mind is just wrong. I have to ask myself – where are we headed, how you living and where is the heart of a person who would do this type of thing to a child and be allowed to walk away with a slap on the wrist and a powerful, but negative, lesson to her daughter.
And that’s the way I see it!!
