Physical or mental - it's the same
If I actively shove you over a cliff, or I deliberately coerce you into jumping over it when I know you're in a bad place mentally then both of these, in my book at least, are the same. One is physical, the other non-physical, but both would make me the cause of you jumping.
My two cents? Even if she gets off, she's guilty of being a deeply horrible person going by those texts and the circumstances reported.