Vancouver area teen commits suicide after telling story of being cyberbullied
 

I thought this story deserved it's own thread, very sad, RIP.

i was just reading about this on fbook. so sad.


Shared the video on my facebook.. people need to know that Bullying is not alright.

was just reading about this and panicked because i thought it was a friends little sister, luckily its not but a shame none the less, heres a link on fb for those to show condolences

RIP Amanda Todd | Facebook

wow. this fuckin sucks

Cabie is where all the kids that get kicked outta school go. Heard is a nightmare there, still rip tho
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Shouldn't authorities be very diligent on trying to track down who this stalker is? If he posted pictures of her boobs from when she was in grade 7, wouldn't that be child pornography?

RIP. So sad to see that these kinds really doesn't understand the impact they have for making fun of someone and treating like it's all a joke. Hopefully this will bring some senses to those who are still bullying and getting away with it....=\

Such a fucken sad story.

Parents should have monitored more closely after the first suicide attempt. Not to mention, Dad should have removed Facebook and warned of dangers.

So many things could have been done - This all could have been prevented.

And the f'en creep who cyberbullied her with the Photo.....Wtf..cops never went further? No tracing IP address?

I went to Centennial and a lot of those CABE kids would come by. Not the best group of people to be around on a daily basis.

Cabe used to have some really fucked up juvenile delinquents when I was in school but she came back for another school year, so maybe it was still better than her previous school in Maple Ridge.

I am genuinely curious though. How does cyber-bulling happen?
Do kids publicly post hate comments on the victim's page? or send fucked up private messeges?
I am not trying to deny that it doesn't happen, just genuinely curious as bullying was always face-to-face back then.

RIP

Cyber bullying,

Same as bullying in real life but via Internet.
Posting the boob picture of her to everyone on her friends list. Creating a wall about Amanda, making fun of her et cetera. Then someone showing it to Amanda.

Many ways of kids being dicks - people that knew her should have smartened up.

Depends.

People can post photochopped pictures or post other pictures of the victim
make comments towards the victim, either putting them down or making threats against them
Make fake accounts to humiliate the victim

I blame Facebook and shitty parenting on the creeper/stalker dude.

This guy needs to be charged with child pornography, distribution of child pornography, assault causing mental mental harm/trauma, and man slaughter.

"An expected suicide"

This makes it twice as worse. Makes you look around yourself a little bit harder to see if there's anyone that you can reach out to...

Amazing how far a heartfelt "are you ok" will go.

RIP to the girl, condolences to her family.

sad...

but at the same time (not to be an ass or anything here..) but why didn't she just delete facebook so she could no longer be tagged in photos? when she started at a new school nobody from her past would be able to know about her in the new school and who her friends were and etc...

either way...sad story...hope the guy spamming the pic of her boobs goes to jail.

Cyber bullying is probably one of the most cowardly forms of bullying. This story really makes me angry at how shitty a lot of these kids can be.

I graduated from high school right before there was any facebook, so it really blows my mind at how different kids these days are.

i can only imagine the pain and suffering you had to constantly go through... no one deserves to go through this

i hope whoever was involved in this gets charged and punished accordingly

RIP amanda god bless your soul

That wording confused me at first, but I think what the author meant is that her death is expected to be ruled a suicide, not a homicide.

Regardless, RIP. Bullying always has been, and likely always will be, an issue for young kids, especially those in their early teens. I did a documentary on bullying many years ago, which focused around one kid - Hamed Nastoh - who committed suicide back in '00 after being bullied. Even a year later while interviewing his mom, you could see how much of an impact his death had on his family.

Info on him

I'll see if I can digitize that video and put it online, in case anyone wanted to see it.

Personally, I don't think there's enough help out there for people who need help from bullying. While this sort of occurrence is relatively rare, I don't think anyone should balk at support a government-funded department even if it helps only one person.

Parents need to do more especially the parents of bullies. I talk to my son who's in Grade 1 all the time about how it's not OK to be a bully or to be bullied. I try and teach him he needs to stand up for kids who are victims of it because it's not OK.

I once had a guy stand up for me when I first moved here. He was a super popular kid who went out of his way to help me when I knew nobody and had no friends. I got a chance to thank him last year after not seeing him for almost 22 and thank him for making a difference in my life. It really doesn't take much the act of one person can make a huge difference.

My best friend's seven year old is already being harassed in school because of her clothes... Seriously, I know kids can be mean, but it's not something a kid that young should have to go through.

My nephew was getting bullied in Grade 1 for the longest time... he would tell us about it (he said kids will not play with him because they say he's black), and my brother would go to the teacher, but nothing was done. My brother had to actually go talk to the principal with a recorded conversation he had with the teacher, with her saying there's nothing she can do for him, for my nephew to get moved to a different classroom.

It's sad for how people can turn a blind eye to a problem like this, especially in my nephews case, someone who had the power to control the situation.

If there was a simple solution to bullying, it would have been eradicated a long time ago...

IMO the only way there's every going to be a difference is if there's one kid who is courageous enough to stand up for the kid being bullied.

"kids can be mean" is wrong. People can be, and are mean. Again..very tragic.

although tragic,

cabe...

nuff said.

The people who go to cabe are lost causes, its just a place kids go for 8 hours a day so parents can get away from their children.

its sad that it came to this, but if a kid is going to cabe,

their parents dont care,
teachers dont care,
they werent raised to be decent people,
no one else cares.


Also like mentioned above, why not just delete facebook and all other social media, change schools, change e-mails, change phone numbers, everything.

seems like she was actually getting better, then she fucked some dude and got beat by his gf. Well that was expected.

I dunno,

I blame the parents 100% for not caring about their child, she had no way to distinguish right or wrong.

What's even worse is that the bullying is ongoing after her death through these Youtube comments of "she deserves it"

I would love to find these kids and punch their faces in.

RIP

anyone know the guys name who was leaking the photos, even that of the girl that fought her? just curious