They Killed a Kid.. #@*!!

A daily routine of mine is to eat lunch with my 84 yo mother. As she is a fan of "The Young and the Restless" (she calls it the "The Young and the Wretched") I usually watch large portions of the program with her.
Yesterday as part of the story they killed off a child who had been with the show for 8 years. Camryn Grimes who played "Cassie Newman" joined the show as a 7 yo in 1997. She was one of the few children in the cast who didn't suffer from "rapid aging". She actually played a 15 year old. (The 17 year old who was charged with her murder was actually born in the script since Cassie was seven).
I don't know if Camryn wanted to leave the show for other opportunities. Even if she did they could have substituted another actor in her place. But Noooo....! Head Writer Jack Smith went on record saying he killed off the Cassie Newman character to "test the marriage of her parents Nick and Sharon Newman". These two have been married nine years and have had 5 or 6 extramarital affairs between them during that time. Wasn't that enough testing?
Jack.. you could have sent her overseas to a boarding school to get rid of her. No.. You had to kill a kid.
Jack Smith -- you're a jackass.