Outrage Over Mom's Tweet of Grief

That's quite sad.

I still don't understand how trolls can be so cruel and soulless. Its as if they threat online posters as machines and don't realize there is a human soul on the other side of that computer.

Trolls should be completely banned from ever using the internet.

If you look at the timeline, I am inclined to agree with McGraw. Seriously. I KNOW it's sad that her child drowned. That is always a tragedy. There is no denying that she is upset right now. However, look at the timeline - she was clearly not paying enough attention to her child by the pool. Didn't she hear a splash or anything? Was there a fence around the pool with a child-proof gate as required by Florida law? This isn't the first time a case like this has happened, and in the others, criminal charges were brought against the negligent mother.
McGraw was immediately lashed upon because she asked if there was any verification. That set the 'mommybloggers' on fire and they went nuts about it. The thing is, the blogosphere has been lied to and cheated multiple times. There's nothing wrong with being skeptical about a story initially at all, especially when people start taking about donations right away. (Reddit, which is considered one of the more intelligent social boards, was recently hit with a heartbreaking tale of woe and people were talking about donations)
What further tarnishes my opinion of the mommybloggers is the fact that several of them DMd Mcgraw with stuff like "I hope your kids die" and leaving fake bad reviews for her stuff on amazon.com. How trashy of them. More tweets can be found saying "Rot in hell, bitch" and "enjoy meeting Lucifer."

Shame on you, mommybloggers. You are now no better than a bunch of internet thugs.

Oh, and I did just find this: http://tinyurl.com/ylbm74g - ""Fog is rolling in thick scared the birds back in the coop," Ross tweeted at 5:22 p.m. on Monday.

At 5:23 p.m., her son called 911 to report that his brother, 2-year-old Bryson, was floating unconscious in the pool."

While she was tweeting, her *other son* was the one that was calling 911. She was obviously oblivious to what was going on. Didn't the older kid yell "Mom! Mom!" or something?

This is why you never take your eyes off of a two year old child that's wandering around your backyard when you have a pool.

Wow. I am stunned. Seriously?
Really?
How evil and cruel can some people be out there?
Think before you speak or type your comments.
YOU CAN BE SUED for this type of harrassment in public, just as easy as you can be online and in a forum or blog.
I am surprised that it hasnt happened yet.
Just because you sit behind a fake name or AVATAR, does NOT mean we cant find you.
We can.
So think next time you are rude, cruel, mean, spiteful, hatefull or jealous.
The woman lost her child for christmas sakes.
Have some compassion.
REGARDLESS of whether or not she was networking, tweeting, or he**, I dont care if she was a drug addict...SHE LOST HER CHILD!
Send her some compassion and love?
Or are you so evil and conservatively lost that you have forsaken her too?

We all know such bitter people in real life, but they are generally too cowardly to say anything without the mask of the internet. But on the bright side, consider that the same mask is available to us all, yet only minor few use it in such a pathetic way.
A similar (kind of) think happened to a friend of mine. While at work, a young girl drove out in front of him, and he hit and killed her. He called 911 and then the emergency center at the office. Later people muttered about why he called the office. He called because he just killed a kid, he was alone, and he was going crazy. He wanted the sound of a familiar, hopfully friendly, voice. He was grasping at whatever he could.

its sad that people could even think of saying horrible things like that. but at least some people have done the right thing and stood up for her. some times the general population is terrible and they follow the mob mentality even if it is wrong.

my heart goes out to Shellie & her family.. toddlers are so fast & so easily distracted by new and exciting items..

as a mother of two grown & a grandmother of 5 grandsons.. i know this so well... i'm unable to tweet from my iphone when i am babysitting, life happens much too fast to let a moment slip away just to tweet.

i do hope she finds peace... this will be a horrendous holiday season for her & loved ones. i recall one of her last tweets was of her mother chiding her for putting up a fragile tree with a two year old running about ... not sure if she has deleted that one, but it was heartbreaking reading her timeline that day.

If the pool is not in use AND you have small kids, keep it covered!...imo

I don't know. If she was the only one in the backyard with the child and it was in the water long enough to drown and die what the hell was she doing? I've witnessed my biological sister consistently become so distracted by social networking that she blatantly, visibly neglects her 4 year old daughter. Thank Todd nothing serious has ever happened because of it, but I really feel like it's a matter of time before a big accident happens. It's enfuriating and tragic. I wonder how much Twitter did have to do with this accident. Hopefully not much, otherwise the guilt will haunt her forever.

Some of the people commenting here really need to check the facts. They were not using the pool. She was not tweeting while her child was swimming...and the pool was enclosed.

Whether or not Shellie Ross's decisions and choices that day played a role in the death, she is a grieving mother and deserving of sympathy, not vicious attacks. As it stands, it seems that what happened was she sent her 11 year old inside with her 2 year old while she finished up a few chores--not that she was ignoring her child while tweeting.

As far as these alleged dms threatening the life of "McGraw's" children, I doubt they exist because "McGraw" seems primarily interested in promoting her self-published books. If anyone did in fact send her dm's like that, I agree that is awful and should not have happened. But I stand by the statement that "McGraw's" behavior was hate-filled and disgusting.