[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Livia

How about if she's not mentally ill? How about if she put her family through a year-long campaign of mental abuse because she's just a vindictive bitch?

I don't think 20 months is excessive, she'll probably be out before Christmas and it might make similar idiots think twice.

But she is.. It states in the article she is.

[armand.kay]

they actually jail people for trolling

[Z]

Originally Posted by armand.kay

they actually jail people for trolling

The internet is quickly becoming more regulated and I think that can only be a good thing. For too long it was an unregulated war zone of disgusting behaviour and I think making people accountable for what they post online is a very good thing.

[user104658]

For trolling herself, no. For example if she'd made up completely fictional people for sympathy.

But for attempting to frame people... of course it should be considered a crime. It's defamation, for a start, and it can be really damaging both socially and financially for people. Not to mention the stress and frustration she's caused the people involved... and the strains she'll have put on other people's relationships. She could have caused serious harm.

It's bad enough when it's a minor thing like this - my partner had a run-in with a group of people on a "trollish" facebook page and THREE of them made fake accounts with her name and pictures and used them to post there... even using pictures of our daughter in profile pictures. It was nothing "serious", just childish crap, but it was still incredibly frustrating. They abandoned the accounts within a day or so but, of course, those accounts (with "I'm a ******", etc., all over the profile page) still obviously came up under facebook search with her picture attached to them, for months, because facebook was pathetically slow to remove them.

Something like what happened in the article would absolutely enrage me...

[Nedusa]

Didn't she used to be on Eastenders...????

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Nedusa

Didn't she used to be on Eastenders...????

Ahh come on, ol' Hev was a stunner compared to this one...

[lostalex]

This is actually pretty common. There have been many cases of people victimizing themselves, like that lesbian waitress recently who claimed she didn't get a tip because her table was homophobic, also there are many examples of black people claiming they were targeted by racists by someone hanging a noose outside their door, or scratching a swastika into their car, only to turn out they did it themselves.

Some people get off on painting themselves as a victim of bullying for the sympathy. It's a shame because these stories always over shadow the stories of people who really are victims.

[AnnieK]

It's like a new version of Munchausen by proxy syndrome.