{"id":489467,"date":"2010-03-30T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100329\/1533388770.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-30T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T14:32:00","slug":"teens-face-felony-charges-over-girl-who-committed-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/489467","title":{"rendered":"Teens Face Felony Charges Over Girl Who Committed Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a case that at least brings to mind the Lori Drew<\/a> lawsuit, prosecutors in Western Massachusetts have figured out how to charge nine teenagers over the suicide death of a fellow student<\/a>. Like the Drew case, there’s an emotional issue here: which is that the bullying and the suicide are horrible stories, and it’s a situation where certainly people have a natural inclination to want to punish someone<\/i>. But it’s a lot trickier than that. Punishing people because someone commits suicide sets a really dangerous precedent<\/a> that could encourage more kids to commit suicide — thinking that it will get their tormentors “punished.” Now, there may actually be much more to this case — and some of the charges at least suggest there’s a possibility of additional activities, such as statutory rape, that happened with some of the teens. However, all of the news reports seem to focus on the fact that these charges were brought because of the suicide.<\/p>\n

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In a case that at least brings to mind the Lori Drew lawsuit, prosecutors in Western Massachusetts have figured out how to charge nine teenagers over the suicide death of a fellow student. Like the Drew case, there’s an emotional issue here: which is that the bullying and the suicide are horrible stories, and it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}