Bullies In Italy...Tread Carefully
Recently, I've been getting a slew of comments on the Amanda Todd story from people who just can't seem to let the story go for whatever sick reasons. They continue their bullying as you see on this blog and just don't know when to stop.
Not if Italy has its way.
14 year old Caroline Picchio committed suicide by jumping out her bedroom window, landing on her head. In her bedroom, police found a note to her ex-boyfriend, whose friends had been circulating a suggestive video of her, taken at a drinking party, in which she appeared tipsy and disheveled. The boys had also been sending her nasty text messages and cyberbullying her on Facebook with insults and threats. On the day she took her life, she had received 2,600 vulgar messages through Whatsapp. “Haven’t you done enough to me already?” she wrote in the letter to her former boyfriend. “How many times do I have to pay?”
Valentina Sellaroli, an investigating prosecutor in Novara, announced they would press criminal charges against the eight boys who were “making Picchio pay.” The teens, between the ages of 13 and 17, included Picchio’s ex. They are being investigated for instigating suicide and distributing pornography on the Internet.
But the prosecutor is trying to see if Facebook can be brought up on charges as well. No one has been officially named but prosecutors are trying to see if employees were lacking in removing offensive content from their site.
How will some of you respond? Hopefully with some compassion. Perhaps you will hold yourselves accountable and not harass and bully other individuals. But you bullying apologists just don't have a clue, do you? You will one day when the law is knocking on your door. Tyler Clementi's bullies found that out the hard way. Perhaps those of you that endorse this behavior will know what it's like pretty soon.
Is that what it's going to take?
Not if Italy has its way.
14 year old Caroline Picchio committed suicide by jumping out her bedroom window, landing on her head. In her bedroom, police found a note to her ex-boyfriend, whose friends had been circulating a suggestive video of her, taken at a drinking party, in which she appeared tipsy and disheveled. The boys had also been sending her nasty text messages and cyberbullying her on Facebook with insults and threats. On the day she took her life, she had received 2,600 vulgar messages through Whatsapp. “Haven’t you done enough to me already?” she wrote in the letter to her former boyfriend. “How many times do I have to pay?”
Valentina Sellaroli, an investigating prosecutor in Novara, announced they would press criminal charges against the eight boys who were “making Picchio pay.” The teens, between the ages of 13 and 17, included Picchio’s ex. They are being investigated for instigating suicide and distributing pornography on the Internet.
But the prosecutor is trying to see if Facebook can be brought up on charges as well. No one has been officially named but prosecutors are trying to see if employees were lacking in removing offensive content from their site.
How will some of you respond? Hopefully with some compassion. Perhaps you will hold yourselves accountable and not harass and bully other individuals. But you bullying apologists just don't have a clue, do you? You will one day when the law is knocking on your door. Tyler Clementi's bullies found that out the hard way. Perhaps those of you that endorse this behavior will know what it's like pretty soon.
Is that what it's going to take?
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