Emotional manipulation of a minor by an adult that results in death should carry some kind of criminal punishment.

Teacher, if you lean on me to do my homework one more time, I’ll kill myself.

Sure she may have had other issues, but thats why a grown women shouldn’t be playing emotional hardball with someone else’s kids.

you’re opening a huge can of worms here… while despicable, this girl had issues that could’ve been triggered by many different things. My daughter went to school with her and there’s much more to this girl than being harassed by a dumbass neighbor.

this is just stupidity. no crime here, move along.

Well unless you mean crime in the moral sense instead of the legal one, but given the context, it’s clear we are talking about the legal sense here.

And in that sense you are, sad though it might be, wrong. If you look, they prosecuted her for violating the terms and conditions of myspace and committing internet fraud (or something along those lines). So they didn’t even have a crime that they could trumpt his up to fit into. Whether someone should write a law making the specific harrassment of a minor where the harasser should reasonably know that it would cause significant emotional trauma a crime, is a different debate than whether it is, in fact (meaning under current existing law, a crime.

At civil law there is a cause of action called “Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress.” Doesn’t that seem like exactly what happened here? So really this is exactly a civil matter, because thats the only body of law that has seemed to address this issue.

Words matter.

Call it what it is: electrocution.

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I said this on here once and someone corrected me.
Electrocution is killing someone with electricity.
Dictionary seems to support this.
But that leaves a gaping whole in the English
language that there is no word for electrically injuring someone
as punishment or to get them to comply.

One time, he got a ticket and the officer wrote the wrong court date on it (it was a Sunday) and he entered the police station yelling

“Officer _________ is an idiot. He can’t even write a fucking ticket.”

He tells this story with great enthusiasm. It’s hilarious to him.

Should the cops, as public servents, just take it like a similarly-treated fast food worker should? Yeah.

But I do wonder if my brother’s behavior is making incidents like this MORE likely because if I had to pull over people like my brother, I’d probably turn into a mean SOB too.

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who wouldn’t exactly cry if some cop punched her brother though she recognizes it would be wrong. But the only revenge I’ve seen the cops have is to be very quick to pull him over for minor infractions, and to detail his behavior with drama and enthusiasm whenever a cop is asked in court how my brother behaved at the traffic stop.