Amanda Todd Suicide

But if people cant recognize that children make mistakes, then I guess those people should ridicule them to death and beyond......

A person can make a mistake. However, if they make that same mistake a second time (or in her case, who knows how many dozens of times), they did not learn from it, and deserve no sympathy. Making mistakes is fine, because you will not do it again if you have any common sense; either you got constructive criticism on how to avoid it and recognize that it's much easier to do things a different way, or you were ridiculed and want to avoid the embarrassment. However, she seemed to be too much of an attention whore to let a little thing like common sense get in her way. Things escalated far beyond her ability to control, and she killed herself because of it.

Some people want to escape genuine plight, some people have the delusional fantasies of "at least people will like me at my funeral", and some people, people like her, think life is so terribly hard it's impossible to pick up the pieces when in reality the hole was dug entirely on their own.