This is one of those difficult cases where the woman is ethically and pragmatically as guilty as any murderer out there (in fact, her actions are more heinous than all but first degree murders), but convicting her of outright murder would potentially open a pandora's box of what constitutes accountability for encouraging suicide in the future; I imagine in time we'd see people across the country, from kids accused of bullying to boyfriends/girlfriends accused of being emotionally abusive and so forth, suddenly dragged into court under accusations of having encouraged or in some way caused the death of someone else without even having been present.
The judicial world is the one place where "slippery slope" is not a fallacy... I certainly won't feel bad for the girl regardless of what happens, but it does concern me where this sort of thing might lead.
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