User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 390: The Story of a Boy, Review and Commentary/@comment-7418318-20140627131627/@comment-7418318-20140627152904

Rule or not, for me she is and always will be guilty of attempted murder in Naval Battle. Without Wendy and Chelia combining their healing powers, Lucy would have died.

Torturing Millianna for fun after she was already beaten is also a crime in my eyes. Millianna was just not eliminated from the tournament because it happened in that pocket dimension or whatever magical place and thus out of sight of the judges.

Joining a Dark Guild is a severe crime in Fiore too. And the attempted murder or Erza (twice now) is obviously also worth calling a crime.

But leaving the legal matters aside, I was more talking about the moral side of things. She hurt, tortured, betrayed and tried to kill other people for her personal advancement and entertainment. Acts like that should not just be written off with a "But she had such a sad past."

Sure it might have been Jiemma's influence that drove her to those despicable acts, but she was always in full control of herself, unlike Jellal for example. And that is why she's also fully responsible for her actions in my opinion, traumatic past or not.