Cyber bullying---it aint just targeting kids anymore:
A Villa Hills Kentucky girl, has alleged in a lawsuit, former friends made her life a “living hell” by posting various things online such as her alleged drug usage, alleged multiple sexual partners and her having a baby, killing it and burying it in her back yard, escalating to the point where she wanted to take her own life, according to the victims mother.
Feb 2007---11 Suspended for Cyber bullying, North of Toronto,Ontario, for targeting high school principal ....
Postings in Facebook included sexually explicit, derogatory and demeaning remarks about the school Principal which resulted in at least 11 male and female students at Robert F. Hall Catholic Secondary School being suspended for up to eight days.
- March, 2007, VICTORIA, Australia has banned student access to video-sharing websites
Sites such as YouTube, have been banned access by students in the 1600 state schools, in a bid to tackle the growing problem of cyber bullying.
Last year, a 17-year-old girl being tormented by a gang of 12 youths was widely viewed on YouTube. It showed youths urinating on the girl and setting her hair "alight".
Experts suggest cyber bullying accounts for almost 90 per cent of school abuse.
(Please see Cyber bullying page for more information)
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It's frightening how evil kids can actually be. It's bad enough on the school grounds but now kids have to deal with bullying being posted for the world to see. It's horrible.