Rehtaeh Parsons' Suicide After Bullying
Just terrible - on Apr. 10, a mother took her 17-year-old daughter off of life support after the teen hung herself a week earlier. The mother claimed that her daughter took her own life after being raped by four teenage boys and subsequently bullied by classmates for it afterwards. Keep reading for more details. Ref. Source 5
Rehtaeh Parsons' Suicide After Bullying (Hover)
Cyber-bullying is getting out of hand and the only real way to stop it is make sure kids that login do so with some sort of ID system so they can be traced. That will make them think twice about saying anything hurtful. I'm not a tech geek but I bet there will be some way around that too. A vicious cycle.
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Yeah, that's the upside down world in which we live now. A girl gets raped and, instead of getting support from the classmates, she gets bullied because of it. Simply disgusting. How is possible that the western school system can't recognize and point out situations like this one?
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