Mom: Girl killed herself over online hoax

The crazy part is how the fictious account had been set up by a mother to see what the girl who killed herself was saying about HER daughter.

Megan's parents are now separated and plan to divorce.

How is that related? How did that happen?

Well the mother who created the false account is surely a good example for her child. This is someone who shouldn't even be a parent. Teens can be cruel to one another. She should have been teaching her daughter not to let it get to her and to move on, not spying on the girl.

I agree - how could a parent do such a thing to a teen? Some parents are complete idiots.

It told the girl she was a bad person and the world would be better without her, he has said.

'He' was encouraging her to kill herself. Assisted suicide, anyone?

Kids get picked on like this ALL THE TIME when it comes to computers. Online harassing is amusing when it comes to 'weaker' peers. Easy prey for cheap laughs at their expense. Shame she committed suicide. Sounds like she was bound for a life of victimization unless gaining some huge amount of self-esteem. Bets are she was overweight and unpopular at school.

While there may be some civil suit here, the real reason the girl killed her self is likely her own mother.

The girl was under attack on line being called all sorts of names, she suffered from depression and was likely on medications (SSRIs are not suitable for children or teenagers because they will induce more depression). Rather than the mother consoling her in her time of need, she scolded her for the language she was using to defend herself.

As a parent, I know that you focus first on your child's behavior, especially if you are strict, so I feel uneasy about blaming the mother and will simply call her actions a significant contributing factor or even the catalyst.

I also think that the parents were not forceful enough in getting access to her after she ran upstairs. Had they not allowed a lock on her door, or had they not allowed her to keep the door locked and went up after her to resolve the issue immediately, she would have been able to be pulled back off the ledge she found herself on, or at the very least, the parents could have identified a larger disturbance in her behaviors and taken her to the hospital.

There were many factors in this, but I think the mother's behavior was the catalyst that ignited the soup of activities that had been made.

Oh well, survival of the fittest.

I agree with most of the people on here who say that the parents should have been more vigilant and place more controls and monitor what their daughter was doing. I am a parent myself, 5 children between the ages of 7 months and 17 Yrs old and I understand the importance of monitoring what kids do on-line. However, both sides of the stories should be studied. We have an adult woman who is further advanced and educated than this 14 year old girl. A woman who used who used that education and knowledge to cause pain and suffering for a teenager. She manipulated this young girl and purposely hurt her in order to avenge an argument between Megan and her own daughter. How can she not be held liable in having caused enough pain in Megan's life to make her want to die? Let me just throw this in... had it been a 30 year old guy that did this charges would have probably been brought up.
I think megans family should file a civil suit if the government will not.

i think that was very childish for the parent to go online an make a fake myspace i hope that the person who i left accountable for this pays there time even if its not jail god will give them a punishment

i think that was very childish for the parent to go online an make a fake myspace i hope that the person who i left accountable for this pays there time even if its not jail god will give them a punishment

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I think they should have taken the table parts and crammed them up that b atchies rectal area and then told her to move!!!

Ok this is so sad. My niece is going trough something very similar, but the girl who portrayed a boy would send her text messages, and pictures, the boy was supposedly on vacation and died while on vacation. my niece was tore up for so long and still is then she finds out it was supposedly one of her friends who made up the boy. this girl was mad because another boy liked my niece and not her. so this sadistic girl made up a boy made my niece like him, and then said he died. she even had someone pretend to be the boys mom and had my niece call her and talk to her after his supposed death. my sister went to talk to her parents, and the father in law said she was in big trouble and that the mom would be over with her to talk to her. but this still has not happend. how can people be so sadistic

all of the sides taken on this unfortunate happening are legitimate, but come on people, does no one remember how crappy being 13 was? stuff like this happens every day, but now its so easy to blame ADD or depression or SSRIs or Myspace. and there will always be bullies. if these people hadn't gotten to her, someone else would have, and probably sooner than later. but instead of informing our youth that life sucks, we diagnose and medicate, assuring them that it will get better. and when it doesn't? things like this happen. we ALL need to take a little responsibility for this sick sad epidemic, and look back at ourselves at that age. if we did, adults like the ones involved might think twice, and when things did get tough, our kids might know how to deal.

She is a great example of motherhood. I hope she gets the 20 years

some women and a man did the same thing to me. except the fake myspace was of me and they stole real stuff off my real page. then they used the fake one to write themselves letters that were horrible to have me put into jail. they didn't come to court so the da knew they committed perjury but still didn't charge them. myspace didn't care. i wrote them several times with no response except for they found the page and it will be deleted. the people continued to write me calling me horrible names and then started writing saying they are sorry???? i still have the letters but the da doesn't care. i started to kill myself but ended up the dr wanted me in the hospital but instead put me on many pills. now i can't see hardly at all-side effects. i also had to help my daughter get $2000 so she could move to a safe place because they had started writing and threatening her. they kept trying to get her to ad them and stuff. i believe it what happened to me would have been made public and the montgomery da would have got the ip address of the account they would have had proof to charge these people. it it would have been made public maybe these people wouldn't have had the tánaiste to do this to this little girl. i know how she felt that day i still feel it. plus they made me look like the bad guy when they are the real criminal and the da can get proof just ip and phone numbers.?????doesn't anyone in this world care. i even called the press and they did nothing. i need a inexpensive good lawyer to help me press a civil case.  i know the mental pain this child went through because i have felt the same pain for the same reason and nobody cares.  all they care about is money not getting justice.  i will take a polygraph!!!  people in this world are so cruel and evil.  joyce elaine reaves oswald of rutledge, al

It is a shame that this young lady was influenced to take her  life over an internet friend/boyfriend.  For this young lady to be driven to this point she obiviously had other things going on in her life. (It seems her mother knew there were problems why didn't she take the computer away for a while intead of letting her continue to use it) Even though what the mother of the other teen did was completely wrong and cruel it all boils down to free speech and no one should be denied the opportunity to express themselves.  The way I see it is if you are going to use the internet/myspace or chat rooms then I figure that you have the following options: block the annoying person from bothering you, develop a thick skin and ignore it or simply do not use the internet.   I am sure most of us were picked on as kids/teenagers and sometimes it was pretty cruel but comitting suicide never entered my mind.