It's parent blaming. Do you really think 12 and 13 year olds should have snapchat accounts without a parent monitoring them??? Hell, 12 year olds aren't even supposed to be using the site.
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I think it's much harder for parents to keep everything their kids do on a leash than you seem to, especially if both parents are working, especially when it comes to the Internet
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For this to have happened entirely in secret from parents, both the 12 and 13 year old would have needed to secretly acquire internet-capable devices with cameras and unmonitored internet connections. That seems highly unlikely.
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Not really, and if you think it is you overestimate a lot of parents' familiarity with tech and underestimate how dependent everyone is at every age on tech
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Oh, I know just fine how much dependence there is - the schools hand out iPads these days, there's a laptop shortage - however, the internet connections of those devices are monitored by the school. They would have said something to the parents at the very least.
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Again, we don't know exactly what went down and we're not really entitled to know For his part, Coleman says his dad was melting down constantly due to untreated mental illness and his mom was essentially a struggling single parent, and I see no reason to disbelieve him
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I did some crazy shit on the internet when I was 13. Kids tend to be more tech savvy than their parents, which makes it easy for them to circumvent most forms of monitoring.
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So, let me get this right - it's perfectly fine, and to be expected, for the parents of all of these kids to be *completely oblivious* to what they're doing online? That absolves the parents of all responsibility?
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Sometimes the best a parent can do is to provide education on the risks and promise to be there if something goes wrong. At the end of the day, the only person responsible for Coleman’s actions is ... Coleman. Not his parents. Not his victims or their parents.
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So we're going to give all the parents a pass here, we're not going to ask why a 13-year-old had nude pictures of herself online, we're not going to ask how a 12 year old was able to hack into her account without anyone at all noticing? You don't see a problem with any of that?
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I think it's a generally shitty situation but I also think if you're gonna turn this into a "Take away the phones!" moral crusade you're completely missing the point and making things worse
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