Dozens of tribute pages for the teen have been created on Facebook. The most popular one has over one million supporters and several others have hundreds of thousands of supporters. Police have opened a probe into Todd's death and "anyone that had contact with her" before she died.
Of particular interest is a man who convinced Todd to flash her breasts, took a screen grab of the moment and used the photo to cyber-bully her for years. Earlier this week, Anonymous, an online hacking and activist group, posted the name and address of a British Columbia man in his 30's who they claimed was the culprit.
Police called the allegation "unfounded" and said investigators had to spend "considerable" time responding to the rumors. The man identified by Anonymous denied being her bully to the Vancouver Sun and pointed to a man in Wisconsin. Anonymous has since posted the name and address of the second man.
Thiessen urged "everyone who has been touched by Amanda's story" to respect her memory by being a responsible citizen of the Internet and thinking critically about information before passing it along. She said she had to change schools multiple times because of bullying. Todd's mother attended the Netherlands trial and told media she was "relieved" about his sentence. Dutch to extradite cyber-bully suspect.
Charges over Todd cyber-bullying. Bereaved mum's plea over cyber bullying. Before Amanda Todd died in , she uploaded a video describing the bullying she had suffered.
Image source, AFP. The year old from British Columbia, Canada posted a cry-for-help video on YouTube using note cards to detail the torment she endured from classmates and strangers in the wake of a revealing topless video chat photo being released to her Facebook friends and others by an extorting stranger.
She got depressed and anxious and experimented with drugs and alcohol. She cut herself and had at least two previous attempts at suicide.
Many students have written out note cards and taken to YouTube to tell their story Alye , Kegan , Kate , and perhaps most famously, Jonah. My fear is that others who are struggling with the common and not-so-common trials that accompany the teenage years will feel that suicide is the only way to bring full attention to their struggles.
My heart breaks when I read story after story of teens who felt suicide was the only answer to their situation. I give up. There are just too many of these horrendous stories to keep up with. Research has shown that experience with bullying whether as a target or bully is linked to heightened risk for suicide. This finding is consistent with what we have found in our work over the years.
In our paper published in , we found a small, but statistically significant increase in risk for suicidal thoughts and attempts among students who were bullied or cyberbullied and among those who did the bullying or cyberbullying.
But the experience with bullying in whatever form explained only a small amount of the variation in suicidal behaviors. There are, to be sure, many challenges that teens are confronting on a day-to-day basis, and often these pile up to the point where some simply cannot take them any longer. Rather, it tends to exacerbate instability and hopelessness in the minds of adolescents already struggling with stressful life circumstances.
Did you wash the mud out of your hair? I hope she's dead,'" she wrote. Todd said in her video that she did not want to press charges against the girl who beat her up because she wanted to move on when she moved to another city and school. She moved to another school in another city, but said the torture followed her through Facebook.
Students posted photos of ditches and suggested she try another bleach. School officials would not release the name of her previous school.
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