Such a Sad, Sad, Story

Rebecca Sedwick was 12 years old. She had been suspended from school once for fighting with another girl over a boy. After other girls ganged up on her on the internet, she was hospitalized for slitting her wrists. She withdrew from school after another incident where she said a girl pushed her and tried to get her to fight. She was enrolled in a different school, one that she liked, this fall. But the cyber-bullying continued -- until Rebecca went to an abandoned cement plant, climbed a tower, and jumped to her death.

The police say Rebecca's computer revealed search queries for how to get blades out of razors and how many over-the-counter drugs it takes to kill a person. One of her screensavers shows her with her head resting on a railroad track. She had an online friend she had met at an airport, and she told him she planned to jump, yet he told no one.

My question -- why weren't the parents monitoring her more closely after at least one suicide attempt? Why didn't they take away her internet access to stop the effects of the bullying? A child can't be cyber-bullied if she doesn't read what's being said. Did the parents know about this friend she met at an airport? Did the parents never look at her computer or her phone? How did a 12-year-old get to an abandoned cement plant by herself? 

I know this is Monday-morning quarterbacking, but it seems to me that someone wasn't watching closely enough this obviously deeply-troubled little girl.

"Online bullying drove girl to suicide, officials say." The Dallas Morning News; September 14, 2013; p. 6A.