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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

The suicide of a teenager harassed on the Internet moves Canada


Amanda Todd was 15 years old After years of suffering and harassment on the Internet , this Canadian teenager ended his life last Wednesday. A suicide moves his country. Monday, Canadians who wanted to honor him were known to wear blue or pink, depending on the message posted on his Facebook page, reports Le Parisien on Tuesday. Five weeks before his suicide, Amanda had posted on the Internet a video in black and white nine minutes, in which she came out on a limb, his distress, his descent into hell. Not to mention, scrolling sentences handwritten on white paper.Three years ago, she met a man on the Internet. He convinced her to show him her breasts in front of her webcam. The teenager, who was then 12 years, agreed. The shot of her bare breasts was broadcast on the Internet. His friends saw it then became the target of ridicule. "I cried every night, I lost my friends and my respect. Nobody loved me," said the girl in the video. Amanda has changed several times in school, the man continued to harass her. She fell into drugs and alcohol.  "One of the goals of Amanda was his message to serve as the other," he told his mother Carol in Vancouver Sun . Men claiming to be the group Anonymous said they had identified this person revealed his name. A bill to "create a national strategy for the prevention of bullying" was also discussed Monday the Canadian Parliament. 

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