Trolls can now be sent to prison

[Alby_da_Wolf]

sapphi_snake said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Asperger syndrome can leave the subject able to learn and do even complicated concepts and tasks, but it affects the most social life and human communication skills, so even if he were not handicapped at all either in physical abilities or pure reasonment, he can really be almost totally handicapped in human relations, not understanding irony, not getting the external signals of other people's feelings and so on. You really can't say his particularly handicap didn't affect what he did. As I wrote in a previous post, he could have learned the mechanisms of black humour and sarcasm, but not understood in what cases is inappropriate. Or the reason of his actions could be another abnormal reaction, there are a lot of different possibilities that his mental problems influenced his behaviour. And even not considering mitigating factors, both in the case of the stabbed boy and the girl bullied until suicide, he wasn't the one that committed the biggest offence. Why didn't anybody  prosecute the bully girls? Was it easier to prosecute not the worst offenders, but just the one that couldn't afford expensive lawyers?

He was deliberately posting messages on sites where he knew the kid's parents and loved ones would see them. He was harassing them. It had nothing to do with humor (unless he got a kick out of mentally torturing people, which he probably did). HE was probably seen by a doctor, and that doctor obviously deemed that his 'mental illness' did not excuse his behavior.

And I still don't understand why you keep bringing up those girls who bullied the girl who killed herself (and now the guy who stabbed that boy, who was most likely arrested). It's simply irrelevant to the case at hand. This guy was harassing the parents and loved ones of the kids that died, not the kids themselves, and that's what he was prosecuted for. We don't know anything about the girls who bullied the girl who killed herself. We don't know who they are, what they did exactly, the toll it had on the girl etc. There may simply be no reason to prosecute them. And most of all, it has nothing to do with this case, it's simply IRRELEVANT.

It's not irrelevant, read the end of the OP:

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Paul Warren, chairman of the magistrates' bench, said: "This case serves to illustrate the harm and damage done by the malicious misuse of social networking sites."

Sherry Adhami, of the charity Beatbullying, said: "Today's ruling is a monumental move towards bullying and cyberbullying being taken more seriously and sends a strong message to society that bullying, whether online or offline, is not going to be tolerated.

"It's time that stopping bullying at the source is placed higher on the government's agenda."

Judges, parents and associations against bullying meant to fight bullying, wherever it happens. I can't understand why you are so eager to acquit those bully girls, when everything we can read about the case tells us that what they did was worse.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017330/Natasha-MacBryde-Coroner-slams-bullies-taunt-suicide-girl-15-death.html

BTW in that article you can read that during the last period of her life she was the target of a clique of snobbish bully girls, so their actions were not only deliberate, but previously planned together, and this can be an aggravating factor, and that many students trolled her online too in life and kept on trolling her starting again almost immediately after her death, not just the Asperger troll, that actually, unlike her schoolmates, trolled her only after death, and unlike some of those schoolmates, never bullied her in real life.