Trolls can now be sent to prison

[Alby_da_Wolf]

sapphi_snake said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

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.

It's irrelavant because this guy did something wrong, and he was caught and punished for it. What those girls did has nothing to do with what he did. This case is about himand his actions. Also, there were no complaints filed against those girls, whereas there was a complaint filed against this guy. If someone is harassing you, you need to report it.

It's also important to note that we have no ideea what exactly those girls did (it's mentioned in the article that they were teasing/bullying her, but it's unknown exactly how and why, or if it's something they could be prosecuted for). Also, even her parents say that a 'combination of circumstances came together' in her mind and created an intolerable situation for her. You can't say that it was only the bullying that got to her.

He surely did something VERY wrong! It's just that amongst all the people that bullied or trolled those dead teens, he's the one that could have done it with least consciousness of the consequences of his actions on others' feelings, let's just accept he's guilty because he was conscious enough, still it's wrong to choose right him as an exemplary case. And given his conditions and what he did, surely he shouldn't be left free, even if totally unconscious, mandatory treatment would still be necessary to protect both him and society, but even if the degree of is guilt is higher the time of the sentence should be spent curing and rehabilitating him, closing him in a jail without adequate cures will just make him worse.The father himself of one of the victims stated he feels anger and indignation, but also pity for him.

BTW, Duffy himself asked the judges to consider three other cases where he trolled dead younsters http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/man-jailed-for-memorial-abuse-posts-2354073.html Why? Does he realise he fell into an obsession he can't control and want to be stopped?

About those girls, we don't know how small or big was their contribution to push Natasha to suicide, but they had some, and bigger than Sean Duffy's one, as he had absolutely no part in it. So, again, it looks wrong that just his case become the exemplary one.