Cyberbullying is where someone affects annother person psycologically in a hurtful way through the internet.
Article link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/us/03bully.html?_r=1
Article Title: Judge Throws Out Conviction In Cyberbuillying Case
In Los Angles, a federal judge had thrown out a case on cyber bullying. A Missouri woman was harassing a 13 year old girl on a fake Myspace account which had lead to her suicide. Instead of the maximum sentence of 3 years in prison and a $300,000 fine, she received a year of probation and a $5,000 fine.
I believe this woman Lori Drew should have been sentenced the maximum sentence. She was truly responsible for the hanging of this 13 year old girl for the things she had said to her. It is very irresponsible of that judge to give her such a light sentence. What makes me very angry is the fact that Lori had left the room smiling about her light sentence.
She was hanged in her room. A statement was made by Lori that “the world would be better off without you.” Then the 13 year old replied that “you are a person worth dieing for”, then hanged herself.
Her mother must have noticed a change in her daughter’s behavior. There is no way that she would just go ahead and kill herself over one statement made to her. This must have been over time and I believe the parents should have been paying attention on what her child was doing on the computer.
This case does not apply to me personally, but it happens every day. There were 2 cases of teenagers hanging themselves in the Roanoke valley for Cyber bullying. It is turning into a very serious problem and should be handled with harsh punishments.
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the person that did the bullying should have got a harsher punishment
ReplyDeleteit is sad that the older lady has nothing better to do than make a young kids life hell.
ReplyDeletewhy would a older woman do that
ReplyDeletei just dont understand
good story
I believe that names should have been mentioned. Still the older woman got off way too easy. I believe jail time should have been required.
ReplyDeleteThey should have given the woman a much larger sentence than what she got. She did horrible things to that girl over Myspace. I agree with Tyler.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe a women would make a little girl do that. She should have turned it into the police instead of her killing herself. That women should get a long time in prison, because we don't even need people like that out on the streets.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe a woman could get away with that. I would atleast think she would of got a couple years in jail.
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