Personally I think she should be charged with conspiracy to commit murder. 1) She engaged other people in her criminal enterprise with a directed goal of causing this girl to commit suicide. 2) It is no different than cutting the brake lines on someone’s car then claiming “Hey, I just cut the brake lines. If she hadn’t started the car then she’d be alive. You can’t possibly hold me responsible for her death.” That’s a BS defense, and I think a competent prosecutor could absolutely make the case that her actions constituted a criminal conspiracy to kill that girl.
Prosecutors combed through the entire state legal code and said that she didn’t break the law. That’s why this is in federal court. What she tried to do wasn’t homicide by any respected legal started from Old Testament law, to modern American law. It was trying to convince someone to kill herself.
Cutting the brakes on someone’s car is quite different from what happened here. The person whose brakes are cut has no control over the actions which lead up to their death, thus making it murder. Psychological manipulation is still just manipulation. There was nothing stopping Megan from just blocking “Josh” and ignoring his words, except her own lack of willpower (understandable, but still not enough to make Drew a murderer).
