Sorry, but evil as the woman was for doing this to a kid, I believe the charges against her rise to the level of prosecutorial misconduct.

Also, the reality of suicide is this: females rarely succeed at committing suicide, but attempt it far more often than males. That this girl succeeded is tragic, of course. But to claim that bullying resulted in her suicide is beyond the pale.

Tough as it might sound, I'd like to know just where were the girl's parents? Suicide doesn't "just happen" with no warning. A child this age obviously had serious problems that may or may not have been diagnosed and treated. It is certainly easy to understand why a parent of the child would want to psychologically "shift blame" to the bullying mother. Whatever gets one through that kind of a horrid tragedy...but to take it to level of prosecution is crazy.

And if people truly wanted to put an end to most suicides, we would pass serious, strict gun control legislation, which could prohibit people suffering from mental illness to gain access to firearms.

That would also put a big dent in school shootings, too.