I feel bad for this girl, I really do, She was a beautiful girl, and she would have been fine once that blew over, those people who were making fun of her and throwing stuff at her should get there head kicked in, If I was friends with her or she was in my family god may have mercy on them but I sure wouldn’t, and for her ex thats just a little kid move to do that, I am really surprised I havn’t read anything on him getting beat up or put in the hospital, This was just an innocent girl who made a wrong choice and then was brought to such a low level from being subjected to all that negative B/S it brought her to that point, May god be with you Jessica, and your family as well.

Excuse me, but there is nothing innocent about an under aged girl who allows anyone to take nude photgraphs of them. Let’s call it how it is. On the flipside, how immature is it for an exboyfriend to slander someone in that manner? Clearly this man has not been raised properly and deverves a beating. This whole story disgusts me but please don’t go and tell me about any kind of double standard as if men are totally immune to public embarrasment by women.

I think the double standard works both ways. In the case of boys, I notice a disturbing attitude among some parents of my acquaintance that boys are feral, untrainable and uncontrollable. Talk about the bigotry of low expectations. And I’m sure that parental attitude plays into the antisocial behavior of some boys. I grew up in an ethnic/religious milieu where boys — like girls — were expected to be self-disciplined, industrious and respectful; it’s not an impossible standard, and it’s too bad that more parents and other adults supposedly in authority don’t step up and demand those behaviors of all children.

Alan West:
are you suggesting that she deserved what happened to her, because she was not pure? I’m sorry, but my faith tradition has a story that speaks EXACTLY to this. See there was this woman, and she got caught doing something she shouldn’t have (there is not mention of the man, btw) and a crowd gathers to condemn her for behavior, some even wanting to throw things at her. And there was this religious teacher that was coming through town who was respected, so the crowd asked him what to do about it. He sits there a while (I have often wondered what was going through his head) and stated the the person who had never done anything wrong, never made a mistake, was the one that could throw the first stone. The crowd knowing they had been caught in hypocrisy, left the woman alone. I think the saddest thing about this story, at least the way that I have seen it told, is that I don’t see Jesus in it.
Also, why is it that you use “girl” when talking about the victims, and “man” to refer to her ex? I assume, since he sent the pictures to others in the school, that he is around Ms Logan’s age.

I’m often ridiculed as being a caveman for not supporting the distribution of condoms to teens, but this is a huge part of the issue that I have been hammering for years. To condone promiscuity, however grudgingly, is to condone the loss of intimacy involved in sex. The sacredness of the act is divorced from the sacredness of the actors.
I’m not at all surprised by sexting. It’s consistent with the mentality that holds the other as a depersonalized object of pleasure. I agree with Alan that this pig deserves a beating, and a savage one at that! But we can’t have it both ways. Promiscuity and self-respect are incompatible.
“t’s bad and stupid for the girls to let themselves be photographed naked but isn’t what the boys are doing about ten times worse?”
No. The one is consistent with the other. If young women don’t respect themselves enough to prevent themselves from acting like little whores and porn starlets, then they shouldn’t be at all surprised when young men treat them like sluts. Porn’s nature is to be shared.
LutheranChik nailed it. No Carter McNeese, no one is suggesting that she deserved it. But, however unwittingly, she participated in a subculture that does this sort of thing.
These sorts of things get decided BEFORE the clothes come off.
This should serve as a wake-up call to our daughters. Men will treat them with as much respect as they demand. The losers will move on to easier marks.

My heart goes out to the parents of this beautiful girl. It is my understanding that she took the photo of herself and sent it to her boyfriend. I am not condoning that action, but who hasn’t done something they have regretted in their youth involving the opposite sex? Unfortunately, her mistake became very public and visual. I wonder how many of the girls who taunted her had become intimate with guys but judged her action more harshly. Jesse obviously felt extreme remorse for her actions – does her ex-boyfriend and the girls who caused her so much pain feel equally remorse or responsible for their actions?
Where where the other kids’ parents in all of this? What a sad commentary about our society where we have pushed young girls into judging themselves by their looks and sexuality. And,what are we teaching our sons – no responsibility or respect for a previous girlfriend? I have a 21-year old daughter and an 18 year old son and this story just rips my heart out.
(By the way – Alan West – it is exactly your attituded that caused this poor girl to commit suicide. I suppose you have lived your life above reproach and witout sin, giving you the right to judge others.)

What does it say today that a boy who dates a girl,then sends her nude photo to other girls in order to cause her to be ridiculed? Where did his parents go wrong, he obviously was not taught or did not witness how a gentleman is supposed to behave. Unfortunately this young gal also didn’t know how a lady is supposed to behave, hence the nude photo in the first place. I feel sorry for our kids today, because they seem to have become so evil (which is adults fault, we are the ones that have created the decadent and violent porno media they are surrounded with every day)and so desperate to be seen as “sexually attractive”// we can blame that on our culture making porn mainstream instead of for adults only.

Alan West, where are your morals? Although the girl did act inapprorpiately that by NO means justifies the boys action. He exploted her to all his friends, as if she were not human. This little pervert should be held responsible for her death and should be punished by the fullest extent of the law and be show absolutley NO sympathy or mercy.

The behavior of the boy and the girls at the school was ten times more despicable than anything Jesse Logan did. Her death was partly caused by the ring of hypocrites surrounding her. Haven’t you all read the story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery? Sheesh!

She posed for the picture. She was wrong.
The boyfriend took the picture. He was wrong.
The boyfriend surrendered to his hatred. He was wrong.
The boyfriend posted the picture for everybody to see. He was wrong.
However…
Was she required to kill herself? Was that the only option? Was that the appropriate option? “Of course not,” is the only answer.
She had the last clear chance to avoid death. It was a stupid “answer” to her problems.

WOW…you certainly deserve the name “Mr. Incredible”.
As in…incredibly inane, incredibly obtuse, and incredibly shameful.
No one doubts what the boyfriend did in releasing the texted photos in public without her permission was horrible and condemnable…but it wasn’t the photo itself but the disgusting and horrible slut-shaming of this poor girl that ultimately drove her to suicide.
Perhaps we should, rather than pile on her body and soul for her suffering, train our anger at the people who demonized her for merely being a woman and especially this society that allows women who are proactive in defending their sexuality to be verbally, physically, and mentally abused.
This is ultimately what sex hate leads to.
Anthony Kennerson
Lafayette, LA

Lots of comments making me out to be immoral and judgemental. All I can say is anyone who uses those terms about me is guilty of exactly what you are accusing me of. This is indeed a very sad story, however, how many people are ridiculed, bullied, and publiclly embarrassed in High School. Now, how many of those people solve it by committing suicide? If this is all it takes to push someone over the edge, there would be a lot less people on this earth. Yes, the boy/man/reptile who sent the pictures is a bad person, perhaps among the worst, but he absolutely did not kill her. His life will be hell for sure, but the lesson to be learned lies with raising children to be strong and self confident.

Alan,
For what it’s worth, I get what you were saying and I agree with you. Don’t get rattled by the hostility aimed at you. I’ve been called an anti-Semite, homophobe, bigot, pedophile protector, etc by the shrill voices of those with no use for reasoned discourse. Shrug it off buddy and hold fast to the truth ;o)
You and I share the same vision, these matters are addressed in how we raise our children. For that we need to be uncompromising. By the way, we need to make judgments. The schools conflate making critical judgments (discernment) with judgmentalism. That’s a huge part of this mess and the attacks on you.
God Bless

Immorality leads to shame and remorse. Her shame and remorse were so great she chose to kill herself. That was wrong, of course. Every actor in this sad drama is deeply wrong.
And the solution is not to teach our children to be strong and self confident, but to be moral, decent and honest. To choose to delay sex until marriage, to respect other people’s feelings and dignity. Even when their own ego and self love is at stake.
We tell our children not to smoke, categorically. Why not tell them not to have sex? Which leads to shame, disease, and out of wedlock pregnancy, or abortion? I’d much rather my kids take up smoking!

she was weak!!
everyone gets called names in school and harassed, man up and issue some beat downs!!

The real problem is that we make such a huge moral panic in this nation about child sexuality. The FACT is that it’s human nature for someone who has hit puberty to have sexual thoughts and feelings, and for society to tell them that these feelings are dirty and shameful causes more harm than anything else and is responsible for the sexual dysfunction in this country. To the poster who is against passing out condoms because they “condone promiscuity” children WILL have sex, and there is NOTHING you can do to stop them, anymore than you can stop them from eating, drinking, or breathing. It is attitudes like that that are responsible for teens not knowing what to do and getting pregnant.

==… it wasn’t the photo itself but the disgusting and horrible slut-shaming of this poor girl that ultimately drove her to suicide.==
“Drove her to suicide.”
“Drove her.”
“Drove.”
In other words, the way YOU understand things, or want the rest of us to believe you understand things, she had no other choice, that she was not in control of herself, that somebody else controlled her into killing herself, forced her. To YOU, she was clearheaded enough to sort THAT out. Beautiful.

==Why not tell them not to have sex?==
Don’t we???

==Why not tell them not to have sex?==
We already do. We do so profusely. They, however, think they know it all and, wanting not to be treated as the children they are, do what they want, though, as children, they aren’t big enough to handle the consequences. Families have to handle them, and the children don’t think about THAT consequence.

A simple advisory e-massage from an outsider altered their behaviors by about 40 percent, if so, how effective their parents’ close attention and care will be ?

As a woman, I know that sending personal information to others, provides a huge opportunity for my info to be shared publically so that’s why i just do not do it. Its really simple. Teenage immaturity is an age old-occurance….it only seems to be a problem in this case because this young lady took her life. Once she sent him the pictures, they rightfully became his to do with what he pleased. The important thing to remember is that NO ONE can make u take your own life. Its completely an act of self!…….just like sending nude pictures of yourself is an act of self. I feel that this girl sent the pictures because she wanted to and in the end, she took her life because she wanted to. Its very sad that we lost someone who seemed to have so much potential, and I hope that this encourages other young girls to make better decisions.

Ever notice that those who say they are depressed want YOU to help them feel better about being depressed by your confessing their depression, that they wanna stay in depression and they need you to justify it?

Teenagers forget parents and alot of teachings we have given them.
This culture we are raising our children is more terrible then we have faced in our time. 20 years ago our parents “heard” about our antics they didn’t see them firsthand on myspace, facebook etc. or on phones. Parents are content to let everyone raise our children. I have children and the two most important lessons I learned were “If you let others teach your children then its other people’s values they are learning” and ” If you have a child that is out of control when they’re toddlers then they will be the same in ten years”. I have taught my own children my values and hope they cling to them, but I know they might not this girl made a mistake and instead of letting go away there were girls and boys who thought they were better and had a right to judge, those are the one responsible. They should be held responsible and if it was one of mine I would still feel the same way

thats very sad…no matter how bad ur actions may be, no one can be judge for that like those people judge jesse. she was a girl who just made a mistake like anyone could’ve made. still, it is sad that lots of teens are sexting and there are many consecuences for that…parent should be a little mopre carful and try to be involved as much as they can in their child’s life. speccially when they become teenagers…

This has outraged me and many others.. and a very good point is made. Where does the boyfriend come in? He is the main one behind it all and even sent out her personal pictures, the one she had trusted him with. Even more so this is what happened when her mother didn’t quite take her daughter seriously until it was too late. Adults just don’t seem to take in what they say — and all because they have no job or aren’t 25? But I believe her mother tried, in the end it was just to much. I wish nothing but guilt to those girls and the boy that did this to her. Jesse Logan didn’t deserve this, I mean think if that was your child being push so far as to take her life. I thank her mother and Jesse for making this all public to teach others about the pain it has caused.. to try and stop this madness. It is a shame and I feel for her family, they’re in my prayers.
** By the way, I am simply a 13 year old from a small town. Please think and take hurting teens, children really, seriously when they seek your help.

==Where does the boyfriend come in?==
He shouldn’t have sent out the pictures.
== He is the main one behind it all …==
No, he isn’t.
None of this would’ve happened, had the girl not posed for the pictures. The lack of Morals led her to pose for the pictures.
==… and even sent out her personal pictures, the one she had trusted him with.==
She should have had better sense. She didn’t.

Mr. Incredible,
Her death could have been prevented had her boyfriend had the sense of keeping intimate-private conversation to himself. Obviously, he had no common sense to take pride for how his girlfriend was trying to satisfy him. Yes, it was a dumb move by the girl, but how old was she? Not even old enough to drink alcohol legally. On average, people who reach that legal age have proven NOT to be too bright, Mr. Incredible.
There is just a boundary as to how stupid you can be to not know what is right and what is wrong. She was wrong for sending him a photo of herself, but she sent it ONLY to him. What about the boy? Was he right for sending the photos out to everyone else? Does two wrong make a right? Is it cool after you have sex with a girl to go around and tell ALL your friends the details about it? Do you FEEL more of a MAN to brag about your sexual encounters with your girlfriend or wife? What’s the difference between this and receiving nude photos of your significant other and passing the photo around to everyone? None, both are under the same frame of intimacy.
Are you not suppose to be trusting your significant-other who you may be sleeping with in the first place? I can see your point about “lack of morals” to mean something if she was with a bunch of different boys, but this was shared only to one other person.
The “MORAL” of this message is that both parties had FAILED to be responsible and the consequence caused by the girl’s SIGNIFICANT other led to the eventual death of the girl’s existence.
Please study a little bit about depression and about relationship before you attack the subject. I believe you are one of those who think you are stronger than everyone, but yet you feel the need to put everyone down. Mr. Incredible, I explain to you because your thoughts and intension may have been appropriate under other circumstances but this was definitely not it.

why are these girls sending these photos out. Have a little dignity. I mean I have a 14 yr old boy who received 10 photos of a girl topless, unfortunatly, he sent them to 5 friends. Now he is facing felony charges, being labled a sex offender and being expelled from school. These photos were not sent at school. Her parents are threatening to press charges. I think it is both their fault. Kids need to be educated about what can happen or will happen. It is completely crazy to face these charges. Some sex offenders don’t even get this treatment when they should. Also, I guess I should press charges for their daughter sexting these photos to my also “sweet innocent” son.

The root is the girl taking the pictures. If they never took the pictures the guys could not spread them. All the blame should be on the girl for being stupid and the guy should bare none.

Don’t blame her mother or there will be problems from me !

I can”t believe that just anyone can comment and make statements when they have no idea what the facts are…you actually wrote that she only sent the picture to one boy…how do you know that…cause I believe that to be untrue…the pic was sent to more than one boy ….the boy that is being accused didn’t originally send it out..the people being sued are not the people that tormented her..they talk of all the torment at school but did not sue one kid from the school??? I feel for this mother but she really needs to get couseling and stop trying to torment her daughters friends that are still alive….just because she cant deal with the fact that her daughter had some very serious mental issues and did this to herself It is a sad situation teach your daughters to keep their clothes on

well sometimes girls think tht there a need to do this then guys might like them more and they dont think how this will affect them after but i dont think ppl have a right to judge her at all. she made a mistake . everyone makes mistakes.

It is amazing how the Logans have been able to say lies about the whole situation and the media runs with it before it has even went to trial. Mrs Logan has blown this out of proportion. Jessica was sending naked pictures for years to lots of boys for several years. My boyfriend being one of the those. She was only upset because this time her Mom found out. She tried to lie about sending it to her. Her Mother and her are not innocent. She has sent pictures not only to my boyfriend but to others among other things. Kids are afraid to come out and say anything because she has threatened them.

i have a friend of mine that recieved one of those pictures and i will say that it is not the only pic out there. he has multiple. however he does not text them. they are personal. boys don’t always send them. if they do then it is because they are upset at something the girl did. how about we all just wait till we are of age. anyone think of that????

i have some what of the same story i went over to my cousins house and i went in her house and i was looking for her and i found michel her 5 year old son and i was like where is ur mom and he said she was looking in the closet for something and i went over to the closet and i found her died in the closet i was really horabble