On Saturday, October 27th,
2012, a thirteen-year-old girl was found dead from an apparent suicide days
after she had told her friends that she had been debating taking her own life.
She was the third suicide victim in the month that had been attributed to
cyberbullying. A few weeks previous, a fifteen-year- old was found dead as a
result of constant harassment on an internet site called, ask.fm. Her body was
found in a wooded area without a note. In an unrelated incident across the
globe, another teen girl took her life as a result of bullying online. This was
the most noticeable of the three deaths because the victim created a YouTube
video portraying the abuse she encountered. It included claims of blackmail,
stalking, assault and bullying. This video was seen over 14 million times
online. In response to the newest of the suicides, family and friends created a
facebook page as a tribute to her. The page offered condolences and also called
for the website Ask.fm to be banned. Thousands have supported this claim and
have written on the page.
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