So here's my reply to her most recent comments (in ):

Sorry if I'm flogging a dead horse by this point, but as someone who has been bullied throughout school, and having many friends who have suffered various combinations of violent and sexual abuse, Jennifer's childish "I'm finding this boring so I'm going to move on" approach is really getting my goat.

So one last time, then - and Jennifer, please read this carefully, and THINK about it before you respond with another knee-jerk "you're all picking on me" response.




I find it sad that you lack the empathy or maturity to even try to understand why your take on it strikes many as repugnant.




I am so surprised that anyone could continue to maintain your blinkered, never-mind-the-victim approach even after dozens of people have explained to you why it is offensive.




You're finding it tiresome? You, Jennifer, are an apologist for every bully who's even got off the hook because of their parents pulling strings for their little darling, for every criminal who went free because their father made a call to a golf buddy, and for every child molester who goes unpunished because "Uncle Bob wouldn't do that, stop telling tales".

are the sort of person who empowers those people to do what they do. are perpetuating the mindset that "we don't turn in family". have highlight in glorious technicolour one of the reasons that personal responsibility has become a rare commodity.

So please, before you "move on", answer these few questions from someone who wishes his tormentors' parents had shown the guts "Matt" did:

- You've said you'd never have been turned in "unless it was murder" - so where does the line go? Attempted murder? Child abuse? Rape? Child sexual abuse? Armed robbery? Dealing drugs? Exactly which of those crimes do you in your wisdom believe can be adequately handled at home by a parent? How long would you have been grounded if you'd, say, beaten up a pensioner and broken their jaw?

- Can you honestly look any of those who have been bullied (a term that in its blandness really doesn't adequately cover the actual nastiness of that abuse) in the eye and tell us that it was right for our tormentors to get off scot-free? Can you tell those who have been beaten, severely injured or raped - not me in this case, but several close friends - that because they weren't murdered it's all right for their attackers to just lose their Playstation privileges for a month?

In conclusion, I don't begrudge you your opinion, however repulsive and arrogant it strikes me. What I do take offence at, though, is your stubborn insistence that you are right, your bone-headed refusal to even consider anybody else's point of view, and your attempted moral outrage and "surprise" that nobody's agreeing with you.

You, Jennifer, have sided with bullies and criminals against their victims. You show no sign of understanding why that's raised some hackles, or even trying to see anybody's side of the story but your own.

At the very least, you owe many people here an apology, and maybe even an attempt to understand - not necessarily agree with, I think that might be pushing it at this point - our point of view.

Am I overreacting? Is she really right to think that one should never turn in family ("except for murder")?

The law has to be equal for everyone, or it doesn't work. At the moment it's not, and Jennifer is a shining example of why.