Shocking Teenage Deaths

There are a couple of news stories involving the deaths of teenagers that has been making headlines in Australia. 

The first one involves the suicides of two teenagers from Melbourne:

Jodie Gater and Stephanie Gestier, both 16-year-old students at Melbourne’s Upwey High School, were missing for a week before their bodies were found on Sunday, hanging from a tree in the Dandenong Ranges National Park.

From last December to February, on one of her websites, Jodie posted three odes to suicide.

These two girls got involved in some kind of glorification of suicide group on the internet and decided to kill themselves and announced their attentions on the internet.  Of course some people are demanding the government raise their kids for them:

Monitoring children’s internet use is the responsibility of their parents, Prime Minister John Howard said following the deaths of two girls who discussed suicide on their websites.

Mr Howard was asked if the government could improve monitoring of the internet or educate parents in a bid to stop a similar tragedy.

"I think the greatest thing that has to be said about this is that parental responsibility in the end is the key to behaviour by children," Mr Howard told ABC Radio.

The other shocking teenage story come from West Australia:

However, the court heard today that psychologists and psychiatrists had failed to fathom why the then 16-year-olds woke up together one Sunday morning, decided to kill Eliza, planned the deed and carried it out in such a cold-blooded fashion.

Defence lawyer Gillian Braddock, SC, said her vulnerable client, who had lost both parents by the time she was 10, appeared to have been led by her co-accused, who has been described as a disturbed and angry young woman with a fascination with death. (…)

But both girls played active roles in the murder – one strangling Eliza with speaker wire, while the other pressed a chemical-soaked cloth to Eliza’s mouth as the girl struggled and begged for her life.

The girls reported Eliza missing after they buried her beneath her house and pretended to help her family look for the dead girl.

These are two really sick girls.