• Bullied Canadian Teen Commits Suicide After Prolonged Battle Online And In School
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[quote]Amanda Todd, a Vancouver-area teenager who posted a story to YouTube last month about being cyber-bullied, was found dead Wednesday night in Coquitlam, Canada. Authorities believe she committed suicide. Amanda's video tells a heart-wrenching story of the bullying she was subjected to -- both online and off. "In 7th grade," she begins, sharing her message on cue cards, "I would go with friends on webcam [to] meet and talk to new people." At one point, a stranger flattered her into flashing the camera. One year later, a man contacted her on Facebook, threatening to send around the picture of her topless "if [she] don't put on a show." Terrifyingly, the stranger knew everything about her: her address, school, friends, relatives, and the names of her family members. Soon, her naked photo had been forwarded "to everyone." Amanda developed anxiety, depression, and anxiety disorders, she says in the video, followed by a path into drugs and alcohol. She changed schools and found a new group of friends in an effort to leave behind the bullies. Then the man created a Facebook profile, using her uncensored photo as his profile picture. "Cried every night, lost all my friends and respect people had for me... again... then nobody liked me," she wrote in the video. Soon after, the bullying started again and she began to cut herself. Amanda moved to yet another school, where, after a boy began flirting with her, a troupe of girls from her first school came and beat her up. "Kids filmed it," she writes. "I was all alone and left on the ground." "Teachers ran over but I just went and layed in a ditch and my dad found me." When she went home with her dad, she drank bleach in an attempt to kill herself, but was saved after a rushed trip to the hospital. Amanda's bullying continued despite moving to a new city. Anti-depressants and counseling did little to combat the severe depression. The description on her YouTube video reads: "I'm struggling to stay in this world, because everything just touches me so deeply. I'm not doing this for attention. I'm doing this to be an inspiration and to show that I can be strong. I did things to myself to make pain go away, because I'd rather hurt myself then someone else. Haters are haters but please don't hate, although im sure I'll get them. I hope I can show you guys that everyone has a story, and everyones future will be bright one day, you just gotta pull through. I'm still here aren't I?" "It is a very sad case," Paul McNaughton, a principal at CABE, the high school she'd moved to in Coquitlam, told the Vancouver Sun. "I can tell you we feel we tried everything we could to help her when she came to us." "She was quite connected here. The staff and the students here are very much impacted. She had some very strong ties in the school and to staff in the school." A Facebook page titled Rest In Paradise Amanda Michelle Todd had nearly 11,000 likes at the time of this writing. The wall features countless messages of condolence.[/quote] [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/10/11/amanda-todd-teen-bullying-suicide-youtube_n_1959668.html[/url] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOHXGNx-E7E[/media] sad
Wow what a cunt. The guy. Not her.
Wow. Nothing was done for her? That's insane. I don't really know what to say. That's such an extreme case of bullying I'm pretty fucking shocked she was left alone to deal with this.
I hope that bastard is hit by a bus
those silent word card videos are so cheesy a very sad and tragic story nonetheless
Whoever that 'man' is that was doing this to her, no punishment is too painful for him. What a fucking worthless piece of scum.
As someone who knows about bullying and confronted my closet friends when they were bullied to extremes my heart goes out to the family. I had an cousin who bullied someone and this happened it literally fucking made him break down
I hope those bullies never forget what they are responsible for.
:(
I want to rape him to death...
[QUOTE=Sir Drone;38006113]As someone who knows about bullying and confronted my closet friends when they were bullied to extremes my heart goes out to the family. I had an cousin who bullied someone and this happened it literally fucking made him break down[/QUOTE] Good. Why people feel the need to incessantly torture someone is beyond me. Is it a parental thing or are they just inherently evil?
No matter the whole story the fucking "insert depressive music with words on little papers to make it look 2sad4u" are pissing me off big time now. It's like every kid with a problem is doing that now.
[QUOTE=Anthracite;38006423]No matter the whole story the fucking "insert depressive music with words on little papers to make it look 2sad4u" are pissing me off big time now. It's like every kid with a problem is doing that now.[/QUOTE] Well why don't you go bully them God forbid these people burden you with their avoidable videos detailing the level of duress you can't comprehend that they suffer every waking moment of their life
[video=youtube;DtEtFeaPoEw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtEtFeaPoEw&feature=channel&list=UL[/video] her only other video uploaded a week ago [video]This song inspires me, because it makes me feel like I'm not the only one that has been picked on, and nobodys alone.[/video] :(
girl from my area did the same :( also ops avatar [video=youtube;RzjFf8ywk3c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzjFf8ywk3c[/video]
[QUOTE=GodKing;38006456]Well why don't you go bully them God forbid these people burden you with their avoidable videos detailing the level of duress you can't comprehend that they suffer every waking moment of their life[/QUOTE] Usually when you have a problem you confess or discuss it with your family/best friend. Maybe the new trend is to make a video as sad as possible so you get hugs from all around the interwebs without it solving your problem in any way? I don't know you tell me.
[QUOTE=Anthracite;38006491]Usually when you have a problem you confess or discuss it with your family/best friend. Maybe the new trend is to make a video as sad as possible so you get hugs from all around the interwebs without it solving your problem in any way? I don't know you tell me.[/QUOTE] Usually people don't feel like killing themselves.
This is the worst thing I've read all month.
Man fuck humanity. In my experience anti-depressants can possibly help if the problem is just in your head and of your own construction but this had external causes that needed to be dealt with too. This brings a tear to my eyes.
[QUOTE=usaokay;38006493]You hear stories of people committing suicide over bullying, but yet, you persist on being an asshole to someone in depression. What kind of sense does that make.[/QUOTE] They're the same kind of people who see someone standing on a ledge and start yelling "Jump!".
Blackmailers are fucking sick. How can they even live with themselves? And losing respect for someone and abandoning him just because she showed her boobs on a camera once is stupid. I wouldnt even care if my friend took videos of him showing dragon dildos up his ass. I ask myself if we ever get rid of bullying. I was neber bullied luckily but honestly if someone would have started i wouldnt know how to get rid of it. I think that only a small number of people are immune to bullying. I dont know how to get it in the heads of kids and people that bullying is fucking horrible and dangerous as one can see. Did the man ever get caught?
This is like my worst nightmare, getting blackmailed and all.
I'm sorry for her.
[QUOTE=Marbalo;38006838]Admittedly she shouldn't have flashed herself, but in no way did she deserve the hurricane of shit that seemed to have followed her for months. I dont get how teenagers can be one of the most cruel age groups. Even in the area I was growing up, the occasional bully case sprung up but all it ever amounted to was a jab at someone for their weight or ugliness/shyness. Nobody would pick on a single kid for months, [I]let alone wishing their death over and over again.[/I] Different time and place probably, but this is just appalling. How can anyone, let alone a child, be that cruel to someone for seemingly no justified reason at all?[/QUOTE] I would cut her a little slack on what she shouldn't of done. 7th grade is usually around 13 years old it's not exactly hard to trick a 13 year old. but yes your absolutely right, she didn't deserve any of this. This is fucking horrifying
This makes my heart ache...
[QUOTE=Marbalo;38006838]Admittedly she shouldn't have flashed herself, but in no way did she deserve the hurricane of shit that seemed to have followed her for months. I dont get how teenagers can be one of the most cruel age groups. Even in the area I was growing up, the occasional bully case sprung up but all it ever amounted to was a jab at someone for their weight or ugliness/shyness. Nobody would pick on a single kid for months, [I]let alone wishing their death over and over again.[/I] Different time and place probably, but this is just appalling. How can anyone, let alone a child, be that cruel to someone for seemingly no justified reason at all?[/QUOTE] IIRC (and this is just a vague memory of some guy on FP telling someone else this but it might have been BrainDamageStudios so idk), kids don't fully develop morals (or maybe it was empathy?) until they're older. As much as it pains me to say it, it's just a matter of the right circumstances for it to get this far.
I have to throw in my two cents now: Why did she show her boobs in the first place anyway? [editline]Edit:[/editline] But in no way that would justify what that asshat did.
Sad. That man ought'ta be castrated.
[QUOTE=jonoPorter;38007037]I have to throw in my two cents now: Why did she show her boobs in the first place anyway? [editline]Edit:[/editline] But in no way that would justify what that asshat did.[/QUOTE] Young and incredibly naive 12/13 year old.
So uhm making a "dramatic" video and probably putting it somewhere for the bullies to see helps how? And how about not continuing to read the FB comments? I am not a specialist for anti-depression, but I think not deliberately coming in contact with people trying to hurt you is kind of important. I mean she moved to a new city, if she'd just cut off her other ties, she could be done with it, but apparently she keeps drowning herself in comments by those idiotic cunts. Besides the mistakes she seems to have made before, I really can't understand this one, it's not that hard to figure out that a new start requires actually starting new.
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