Look up the text, she did not think she was helping, she knew full well what she was doing.

Sure, we can’t use mob justice even when our loved ones are murdered. We are civilized, or so we’re told. That’s why she’s having her day(s) on court.

What’s undeveloped in teenage brains is judgement and impulse control, none of which factor in here. This wasn’t one impulsive act, like telling him once in frustration, “fine, go ahead and kill your self”. This was deliberate, coldly calculated and carried out methodically, over a long period of time. She appears…

Neuropsychologist here. First, let me be clear that I am NOT diagnosing this woman. I’m not speaking about her individual nuances. I’m going to clear up some muddy water about typical brain development.

Not that we need to incarcerate her for retaliatory reasons - this is a person who actively encouraged another person to self-harm. At the very best, she’s guilty of criminal negligence (neglecting to take action to prevent someone from inflicting self-harm) and needs a wake-up call and some counseling. It’s possible…

She persistently and repeatedly guided him through every step of the way, including telling him to get back in the truck.

Does it normally take a teenager months and months to make a judgment call? Because she’d been pressuring him to kill himself for a long time. It was no snap decision.

Yeah, I have to agree with you. I know the story focuses on the girl who urged her boyfriend to kill himself. But I see few mentions of the boy who took his own life. Or how his family might be feeling right now, I can’t imagine what goes on in the mind of a mother who’s son took his own life. I have no compassion for…

My four year old son makes nonsensical decisions. He has temper tantrums, he lies, he tries to get under our skin all the time. But when he sees someone hurt, he helps. When he sees someone scared, he gives them a hug.

Ok, I can not understand the sympathy shown towards this person. This isn’t normal teenage bad decision making. This is lengthy, planned manipulation that resulted in the death of another person. I am a high school teacher. I work closely with teenagers and get to know them quite well. Yes, teenagers lack some…

nope—if her oppositional defiant disorder had been addressed when she was younger, she may have been able to develop some human empathy. as it is, she is likely now has full blown antisocial personality disorder and will be a sociopath for the rest of her life. unless it is addressed at the very latest in the early…

Charles Manson never laid a finger on a single person.

That’s not how sociopaths work. They don’t grow out of it. You don’t know what you’re talking about here.

No, no, no! The “teenagers are all dumb” defence does NOT work here - she knew EXACTLY what the fuck she was doing! My 16 year old niece may have crazy temper tantrums sometimes and find every adult to be, like, soooo embarrassing, but she would never urge someone to murder themselves with repeated, insistent,…

Thank you. This is not one mistep. This is a pattern of conversations in which she pressured him to purchase the means for his suicide and then guided him back into the car to kill himself. This is as calculated and thought out as it comes.

Come on, “nonsensical decisions” are sneaking out, having parties when your parents aren’t home, or standing outside 7-11 asking people to buy you beer (I may be outing my own teenage years, lol). Spending months urging someone via text to kill themselves goes way beyond the “teens gonna be teens” allowance for…

she’s also a teenager who makes nonsensical decisions with an uncompletely developed brain.

Right. Do we all not remember what it was like to be 17 or something? She’s not a fucking toddler. I realize there are all sorts of fuzzy legal arguments to make about her being a minor and also having an undeveloped brain, but at 17 you fucking know you’re not supposed to tell someone to kill themselves. This is way…

I strongly doubt that she will get anything from this except for sympathy *for herself*. This is not normal teenage behavior. Normal teenagers do fucked up things. They bully, they tease, they point out flaws and they even casually tell people to “kill yourself” (although the internet has taught us that sadly, adults…

She may have legally been a minor, but there’s no magical change that happens from the age of 17 to 18. This wasn’t a bad decision in the moment, it was calculated and happened over a span of months. She even texted a friend once she knew the police had her phone that she would go to jail because she was responsible…