End of Keeping Faith

I recently finished reading Keeping Faith. It was an overall very moving and meaningful book. One part of it that I really enjoyed reading was the chapters that were about the trial of who got full custody of Faith. I really enjoyed this because it really teaches you a lot of things about the law in general, and in this case a lot about munchausins by proxy and other kinds of different conditions. To me, it was like watching a movie, and the whole time rooting for Mariah. After watching numerous episodes of Law and Order: SVU and taking government last year it made it even more interesting to read this whole hearing because I understood how everything worked and could definitely picture it as a law and order episode. There were many emotional parts of it, including when they had Faith walk into the courtroom after her near death experience in the hospital followed by a coma. I won't give away the ending to this book because I think it's definitely a book that everyone should read. But I will say Jodi Picoult never ceases to amaze me with her writing and how she makes you understand everyones complicated side of the story.

Myspace Trial

I read an article about a mother who allegedly made a fake myspace of a boy named Josh, to see if Sarah Drew, her daughter's friend Megan, had been spreading mean rumors about her daughter. After trying to get back at Megan, Sarah Drew's mother proceeded with telling Megan to kill herself and that the world would be better off without her. Soon after, Megan was found hanging in her room with a belt and died the next day. This is the first cyber-bullying trial for the nation. Instead of being blamed for Megan's suicide, the mother is only being charged for violating the myspace terms of service. I think this is stupid, and she should be charged with homicide because she clearly created a person who Megan would fall for with the intent of turning on her. I think she fully knew the consequences of it all. Being an older adult, I think she should be held fully responsible for convincing a young gullible teenager to kill herself, and anything less is ridiculous.