Cyber-bullying takes its toll on teenager

           

                   Amanda Todd

On the 10th of October,Canadian girl:Amanda Todd has died in her home in Columbia,England,just weeks before her 16th birthday.A man said she was attractive and he wanted her to flash when she was online so she did and sent the man a topless photo of her when she was 12.The screen shot of her posing topless has cause leading to fights at school, a struggle with drugs and alcoholand online bullying.She changed citys and schools, but the trouble still followed her,Amanda's mum said "the intenet stalker she flashed kept stalking her."Everytime she moved schools the stalker would go undercover and become a facebook friend.The stalker went online to the kids that went to the new school Amanda was at now tell the kids ,he would be starting school next week and say he needed friends.He eventually gathered people's names and sent Amanda's [topless} video to her new school.Then she wouldn't go to class when she was at school.'When she got home, she wrote she drank bleach it killed me inside and I thought I actually was going to die.'said Amanda.She was taken to hospital to flush out the bleach,she was taken to hospital again after an overdose.Mrs Todd said Amanda had spent time in hospital in September, and was slowly starting to get better. She went out with friends, she went to the mall, she said to me, 'Mum, this is the first time that I feel normal again. I have had the best day ever.'Then all of a sudden few days later she died.

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