When I first started reading this story, I thought it was just a simple case of a childish prank gone horribly wrong.
It was a childish prank, but it was not perpetrated just by children. There were parents involved.
A 13-year-old girl made friends with a boy named Josh on Myspace. Eventually Josh rejected her, and she hanged herself. (There's way more to it than that, but that's the overview.)
The prank: Josh didn't exist. Someone made him up specifically to mess with this girl.
That's not so unusual, unfortunately. What's remarkable is that the Josh prank wasn't just a mean trick between kids. It was a neighborhood family. The parents were in on it.
Unbelievable. It's kinda tough to get kids to sort out their problems rationally if their parents are going to pull shit like this.
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Wow. That is horrible.
ReplyDeleteThat is terribly sad. Thank you for posting it. I posted it on our "bunco" website, as I know many parents allow their children to chat online. I've even heard stories of meanness from K, who is rarely privy to these interactions as I don't allow her to chat (except with her cousins on the penguin site).
ReplyDeleteI've just been trying to figure out what motivates an adult to contribute to that kind of behavior.
ReplyDeleteI suppose I really don't want to know. It probably has something to do with not having been allowed to sit with the cool kids in the lunchroom when they were young, or something pathetic like that.