Comments on: Personally, I’d blame the parents

By: nicole2905

nicole2905 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:22:28 +0000

i knew chanelle, not very well, but i saw her before some football games, footy clinics and we would always stop and say a quick hello.
you have no right to post something like that about a greiving family!
if you had every felt the pain of losing a loved one you couldnt have brought yourself to type this. your are clearly a cold- hearted man who has no respect for anyone.
if chanelles mother wants to blame the internet for her daughters death then let her do it! whatever will help a brokenhearted mother deal with what has happened!
i dont care if you agree or disagree with this approach, to even think something like that is disgusting!

you are whats wrong with this world!

By: nicole2905

nicole2905 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:22:28 +0000

By: davud

davud — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:00:34 +0000

It's just that most of the focus is on the parents and News Ltd seem to have largely escaped your wrath.

By: davud

davud — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:00:34 +0000

It's just that most of the focus is on the parents and News Ltd seem to have largely escaped your wrath.

By: kimberlyelizabeth

kimberlyelizabeth — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:50:13 +0000

It started as a minor situation, of course the mother would have been supportive, but ask any teenager, most will say they have been bullied. It is logical for her to blame the internet, as the messages sent over it were the ones that convinced the girl to end her own life, if the internet had been eliminated from the situation, it wouldn't have gotten to this extreme stage and ending in a death.
I really don't think you should be judging this when you aren't personally involved and really have no clue except what media has told everyone.
I myself didn't know the girl, but I know a very very close friend of hers, I think I would understand the situation a little bit more then you would.

I'd appreciate it if you would get the facts right before blaming a poor mother who has lost her child.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:27:12 +0000

I'm not pointing the finger at this girl, not would I. Her loss was a tragic loss that should never have happened. However a mother who glibly blames the internet and ignored the bullying she received that led to her suicide…well, it wasn't exactly helpful ,was it.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:25:04 +0000

Yes, and you did everything a good parent should do and I congratulate you for it. I also feel terrible that this girl died, but likewise I feel angrythat her death occurred because her parents dismissed schoolyard bullying as nothing important to begin with then blamed the internet…while actually saying that they don't blame the girl who was harassing her daughter online.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:21:25 +0000

I'm sorry, but this sort of tripe in newspapers damages the message that should be getting out about teen suicide. Other parents with kids in trouble read this and get the idea that the internet is to blame, ignore the real problem, and then we tragically lose more kids. If this post saves only ONE life by correcting the failure of News Ltd publishing this to begin with, then I am better for it, and so is society.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:17:16 +0000

No, what's inappropriate is a mother blaming the internet when she ignored her child being bullied.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:16:34 +0000

She was being bullied by her classmates…at school and online, actions that her mother ignored and dismissed out of hand. The internet didn't kill the girl, her classmates drove her to it. End of story.