This is Jesse Logan. The late Jesse Logan. Who last year opted to take nude pictures of herself with her cell phone and send them to her boyfriend. Which is called "sexting". When they broke up, the scumbag BF decided to forward those pics to a bunch of classmates. Who in turn had more than a few snide remarks to make to Jesse.
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In July of 2008, Jesse hung herself. Her mom, Cynthia, is understandably distraught. And wants to sue the High School for not stopping the students from badgering her daughter, literally to death. You can read MSNBC's report on it here. Why they waited until this week to run the story 7 months after Jesse's death is beyond me.
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Okay, Jesse's death is a tragedy. Kids were cruel and nasty when I was in high school; I'm sure they're much crueler and nastier nowadays. The loss of a life with so much potential cannot be understated. However...
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Jesse's mom uses these words to describe her daughter : "vivacious", "fun"; "artistic"; "compassionate"; "a good kid". Well, I'm sure that's the personality she presented to you, Mom. But the fact that she sends nude pics of herself to her BF tells me she has another side that's anything but shy, sweet, and innocent. And a good portion of the blame and responsibility is yours for being totally clueless about your daughter's activities and character. There's not a lot the high school can do when your own daughter is the initiator of the pics.
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Mumsy also has the lawyers looking into the possibility of filing child pornography charges, since Jesse was under-18 when she sexted those pics. Ironically, the criminality belongs first-and-foremost to the photo-taker, Jesse. Of course, she's dead so obviously they won't be serving her a warrant. One wonders if Mom would be so anxious to pursue this route if Jesse was still alive.
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Bottom line - while the ex-BF is a total douche, and I hope the high school classmates suffer a lifetime of guilt for what they did; if there is any criminal negligence here, it falls on the head of the Mom, not the school. And Cynthia, if you really want to prevent this from happening again, I'd focus on the unbelievably stupid, self-destructive practice of sexting, not on the meanness of your daughter's classmates.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Sexting
This is Jesse Logan. The late Jesse Logan. Who last year opted to take nude pictures of herself with her cell phone and send them to her boyfriend. Which is called "sexting". When they broke up, the scumbag BF decided to forward those pics to a bunch of classmates. Who in turn had more than a few snide remarks to make to Jesse.
.
In July of 2008, Jesse hung herself. Her mom, Cynthia, is understandably distraught. And wants to sue the High School for not stopping the students from badgering her daughter, literally to death. You can read MSNBC's report on it here. Why they waited until this week to run the story 7 months after Jesse's death is beyond me.
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Okay, Jesse's death is a tragedy. Kids were cruel and nasty when I was in high school; I'm sure they're much crueler and nastier nowadays. The loss of a life with so much potential cannot be understated. However...
.
Jesse's mom uses these words to describe her daughter : "vivacious", "fun"; "artistic"; "compassionate"; "a good kid". Well, I'm sure that's the personality she presented to you, Mom. But the fact that she sends nude pics of herself to her BF tells me she has another side that's anything but shy, sweet, and innocent. And a good portion of the blame and responsibility is yours for being totally clueless about your daughter's activities and character. There's not a lot the high school can do when your own daughter is the initiator of the pics.
.
Mumsy also has the lawyers looking into the possibility of filing child pornography charges, since Jesse was under-18 when she sexted those pics. Ironically, the criminality belongs first-and-foremost to the photo-taker, Jesse. Of course, she's dead so obviously they won't be serving her a warrant. One wonders if Mom would be so anxious to pursue this route if Jesse was still alive.
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Bottom line - while the ex-BF is a total douche, and I hope the high school classmates suffer a lifetime of guilt for what they did; if there is any criminal negligence here, it falls on the head of the Mom, not the school. And Cynthia, if you really want to prevent this from happening again, I'd focus on the unbelievably stupid, self-destructive practice of sexting, not on the meanness of your daughter's classmates.
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Yeah, this popped up on our news yesterday, too. I don't think the mother's responsible, either, because it's very possible the girl was sneaky, and parents can't know everything. Frankly, the blame really lies with the girl. She's the one who took the pictures and mailed them out. I'm sure she'd been told by many adults that sending out naked pictures of yourself is stupid. I certainly hope she had been.
This reminds me of the case last year of the mom who created a fake myspace profile, talked to her neighbor's daughter in order to find out what sorts of cruelty was being done to her own daughter, and then "broke up" with the girl. When the girl committed suicide, the parents sued the neighbor for making the fake myspace profile. Totally ridiculous. What about all those people posing on myspace as fictional characters or dead authors? Yeah. Fake profiling is not illegal, and the mom didn't encourage the girl to kill herself.
Wow, awesome, awesome, awesome post! I seriously could not have agreed with you more. WTG for bringing up something that the media "overlooked".
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