The author is a child. (Score 1)

At seventeen, she is not considered a morally or legally responsible individual in my country--I have no idea where the law stands on this in Germany, but to me she is just a kid. The people I consider to blame in this scenario are the editor and the publisher. When the girl's plagiarism was proven, they should have withdrawn the book, apologized to the public, and re-released it a few months later when she had been given time to clean up the text with original passages. As is often the case of the adults who surround evil, lawless, and morally bankrupt children, they are full collaborators in her criminality and without them, she would not be able to harm anyone, including herself.