Charities have warned of an increase in cyberbullying after an inquest this week disclosed that a teenage girl killed herself in February just hours after receiving an abusive and threatening message on a social networking site.Jeremy Todd, chief executive of the charity Family Lives, said the online bullying of Natasha MacBryde was “awful and unacceptable”. The 15-year-old was found dead on a railway 150 yards from her home in Bromsgrove in Worcestershire. On Thursday a coroner called internet “trolls” who left abusive messages on an online memorial page to the teenager “vile and disgusting”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/22/cyberbullying-rise-warn-charities
Cyberbullying on rise, warn UK charities
Charities have warned of an increase in cyberbullying after an inquest this week disclosed that a teenage girl killed herself in February just hours after receiving an abusive and threatening message on a social networking site.