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CNN explains the case a lot better than I could. The very short TL;DR version is that an eighteen-year old dude who was already probably at least somewhat suicidal had an (online) girlfriend who sent him a whole bunch of text messages encouraging him to do it.
Eventually, he followed through, and now she's on bench trial for involuntary manslaughter.
My first thought when the case was first publicized, and still is, is that that's nuts. She didn't kill him. But at the same time, she's clearly fucked up pretty bad and probably does deserve some kind of punishment. But did she break the law?
Reminds me a little of all the cases where girls (and sometimes boys) kill themselves due to social media bullying. Those have been arrested and prosecuted from time to time, but in almost all such cases, there was another law broken, i.e. child pornography, etc.
I'm curious what people think.
Eventually, he followed through, and now she's on bench trial for involuntary manslaughter.
My first thought when the case was first publicized, and still is, is that that's nuts. She didn't kill him. But at the same time, she's clearly fucked up pretty bad and probably does deserve some kind of punishment. But did she break the law?
Reminds me a little of all the cases where girls (and sometimes boys) kill themselves due to social media bullying. Those have been arrested and prosecuted from time to time, but in almost all such cases, there was another law broken, i.e. child pornography, etc.
I'm curious what people think.