12-yr-old Milwaukee girls stab friend 10 times!
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Anonymous
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"They had something to prove to someone they found on a ghoulish website. So, two girls allegedly lured a third girl into a wooded area in Milwaukee over the weekend and stabbed her 19 times, police in Wisconsin said...The girls were trying to impress a certain "Slenderman," the complaint read. One of the girls encountered the name on a website known as Creepypasta Wiki, which posts horror stories.
Slenderman is the site's supposed leader, and to climb up into his realm, a user must kill someone, one of the suspects told police." WTH? What is wrong with these girls and why aren't adults monitoring their Internet usage?? http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/03/justice/wisconsin-girl-stabbed/index.html?c=homepage-t |
Anonymous
You answered your own question. People love to say media does not influence children but it does. Why wouldn't it? |
Anonymous
| (OP here, sorry, 19 times...for some reason it was autocorrected to 10?) |
Anonymous
| I see it myself with Instagram-- preteens posting inappropriate or abusive things. I monitor my kids' usage and also have all access to that device. I don't get why people don't do this! These girls were supposedly "friends" but I highly doubt there were no signs on social media of what was to come. |
Anonymous
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Hence one more reason we are all dying in front of our computers.
1984 |
Anonymous
| What a horrible thing to happen. Makes me not want my kids to have a computer at all. |
Anonymous
Believe me, I have this same thought at least once a day. But it's a horrible tightrope to have to walk. After all, in order to be considered well-educated in their generation, they are going to have to be tech savvy. So the only way to do it is through complete vigilance on the parent's part. I feel like it's tougher to chase my kid and her iPod around now than it was to chase her around when she was 19 months old! |
Anonymous
Yes, my kid has an ipod too. She is 8, so I went into settings and disabled a bunch of stuff. I even thought it was funny when I couldn't figure out later why she didn't have an app store, and then I realized it was because I disabled it. Safari is not enabled, and since she is so young, she hasn't even asked about it. All she does is play minecraft and a horse game. I look at it frequently while she is playing to make sure. But I am worried about this as she gets older. |
Anonymous
| Parental controls for all of these devices are free and easy to use. |
Anonymous
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I don't think this story is so far fetched, seeing how young girls act, unfortunately. Some young girls I know are made to live such a regimented life, and consequently act out at such a young age (not at their own house, of course, but everywhere else); I see jealousy, obsession and rage and it scares me as a parent. Unfortunately, this is no exaggeration, I wish it was. I would imagine it is the parents who least expect it, who have the children most likely to act out such a terrible thing. |
Anonymous
| People seems to be getting freakishly meaner and have no problem lashing out at others. |
Anonymous
+100000 Freakish is right! |
Anonymous
| Crimes happened before the internet age. Loose parenting, not the Internet, is to blame. |
Anonymous
An ipod at 8? What is she going to have when she's 10? 12? As a teacher, I am continually frustrated at the decisions parents make which affect kids' attention spans, social expectations, etc. |
Anonymous
I personally think the "tech-savvy" rationale is overrated. They aren't coding on the ipod. They are playing games, using email, etc. None of these things are really becoming tech savvy |