Canadian Amanda Todd who had committed suicide due to cyber bullying
Cyber bullying and web harassment are been reported very often, and had led to serious consequences. There are thousands of cases where naked pictures has been published which affects the privacy and those innocent people find it very difficult to live in the society with respect. Yet, no punishments have been given and we hear a gradual increase in this type of them on a daily basis.
15 year old Amanda Todd who had been living in British Colombia had committed suicide on the 10th of this month when she has been unable to tolerate the distress caused by the Face Book web site any further. The video which she has published on ‘Y Tube’ requesting not to commit the wrong that had been done to her to anybody else made a huge impact on the society and the whole world has started to talk about this case.
Cyber bullying has started due to a mistake she had done when she had been 11 years old. She has started to chat with an unknown guy through the internet. He who ad first been a friend of the Face Book had later spoken to her on Skype as well. To a request made by him, Amanda had shown her breast on the web cam and the guy has recorded it which had been later used to bully her every day.
This guy, who had taken a video of her beautiful body, had threatened her saying that he will use it all over the web. He who had been having distorted instincts, had forced her to show her naked body. When Amanda had not agreed to him, he had spread naked photographs of her, all over the place where she has been living. The photographs have been passed around among her friends and school which had made her depressed.
She who had been ashamed of this incident has removed her name from the Face Book and the other internet social networks. Since she had been cornered from the school, she had finally changed both her residence and the school. But as due to depression, she had got addicted to drugs and alcohol.
During this time, the guy who has had the photos of her opened a new Face Book account on her name and he added his lecherous friends and displayed chats and her contact numbers and address. Thus, many men called in search of her and some even visited her home.
Due to continuous bullying and harassment, she decided to change schools. After some time, she met another guy who became very close to her. She didn’t have a clue as to what he was up to. They fell in love and taking the best out of the opportunity, he used her and dumped her saying “I knew who you were; I have seen you on the internet. That’s why I did this to you….” Amanda got into a major depression as she was cheated once again and this time she could not tolerate it anymore.
Since she was bullied again in the new school, she and her family decided to change their residence once again. Amanda had attempted suicide thrice by taking poison. Even though the family was able to save her life on the first two attempts, they failed on her third attempt. She passed away on the 10th of this month leaving a note saying that she needed to get rid of depression.
Before, leaving forever, she left a very important message on the internet which was the cause of her death. That was the story of her mistake. She said “I can never get the photo back.” After Amanda’s death, the guy who had been bullying her had been found by the police and he had been 32 year old person who had been residing in Vencor.
Amanda’s mother, Carol says that there should be an institute to help the people like Amanda who had been harassed on the cyber space and she has started a Trust Fund on that regard.
Before, Amanda’s death, she has told the whole world about the dangerous effects of revealing one’s personal stuff and details on the internet.
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