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RCMP: Those posting hurtful messages on web pages for Amanda Todd run risk of being criminally charged
VANCOUVER/CKNW (AM980)
James Lewis | Email news tips to jlewis@cknw.com
10/13/2012

The RCMP say more than 400 tips have been received in connection with the death of Amanda Todd.

The 15-year old took her own life this week -- after years of bullying -- much of it online.

But even in death -- Amanda is still the target of heartless online abuse.

From online trollers posting hurtful messages and images on pages dedicated to Amanda's memory.

RCMP Sergeant Peter Thiessen says those people run the risk of being criminally charged.

"The family, the police, the community in general are really quite outraged by the conduct of many on social media."

More than 20 full-time investigators are assigned to the file.

Thiessen says tips have been coming in from all over the world -- although he couldn't speculate on reports from Amanda's mother -- that Amanda may have been the online target of an American pedophile.

Meanwhile, Premier Christy Clark says parents need to have a bigger focus on watching their children on social media.

"We have to educate parents about how important it is that they 'friend' their kids on Facebook. You need to be a part of their online life! You need to be dropping into their e-mail every now and then, particularly when they're younger and they'll let you... I recognize that's harder as they get older... but you need to be engaged in your child's online life."

Clark was speaking with Sean Leslie on CKNW's The World Today Weekend.


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  1. Vancouver Sucks posted on 10/13/2012 08:55 PM
    Bullying = Terrorism! Simple as that! All the people responsible for this should be brought to the stiffest of punishments! Bullying needs to be one of the most serious crimes. It's also a hate crime.
  2. RonE_1902 posted on 10/13/2012 10:54 PM
    These sick people should be charged and made public.

    A very disgusting and disturbing example of further criminal behavior to come from these miscreants.

    Make an example of those involved now, rather than later.
  3. SalV posted on 10/14/2012 08:26 AM
    How lost and empty can you be to continue to do this.

    Don't know what type of childhood these bastards had (not a very nice one) and it's obvious they are too far gone in their sick little brains, so just jailed them and let them rot.
  4. RegA [deleted] posted on 10/14/2012 09:09 AM
    Go after the pervert that started this poor girl's miserable life's path, and fix his wagon. Grade 7? for Pete's Sake. I truly wonder how the USA treats this sort of thing? The Americans seem to have a way of punishing all wrong doers sensibly, where here, up in Lotus Land, we make a big stink, and do nothing. Reminds me of an old immigrant boss I once had, that would comment, in his broken English, in times of desparation, "it's important, so forget it!"
  5. AnneH_4 posted on 10/14/2012 10:50 AM
    I think the converation should keep going and going until the authorities do something. In the past when children have killed themselves there is a lot of discussion - the story dies down - and the monsters go unpunished.

    For people who terrorize their fellow school mates it is a joke and it seems that there is absolutely no remorse

    i know people are saying that the perps have had sad childhoods but many people have had bad unbringings and they manage to overcome. We cant make this is an excuse.

    I am sorry for those who were abused but the cycle has to stop.....
  6. lican posted on 10/14/2012 11:13 AM
    Here's a thought.....Why do parents allow computers/phones...etc in their children's bedrooms? You would not install an unlocked door to the outside in your child's bedroom.Your children should have as many rights as you allow them.Parents need to stop being their children's "friends" and start being the parent's.Till they reach adulthood you make choices for them because its what you think is best.It's not a democracy.Your children need to know that no matter what happens......my parents have my back.
    Life does go on without the internet!
    1. DakotaD posted on 10/14/2012 11:16 PM
      @lican can't blame it on the parents or the internet. only to those who miss use the internet as there own way around the law.
  7. EvelynH_7777 posted on 10/14/2012 07:29 PM
    It is too bad that facebook doesn't share the same opinion as the RCMP - that Amanda is still being harrassed online. Apparently they say that the facebook page, 'Do You Even Bleach' does not violate any of their terms of service. Kudos to You Tube, however that did take down a distasteful video. It looks like their terms of service reflect a more humane sensibility.
  8. DeceitinDrugsD posted on 10/14/2012 08:35 PM
    What about the person/s, who are posting the
    photo, which drove her into suicide.

    She was a 12 year old child and people are making
    judgement about her.

    Pathetic and disturbing!

    The action sof one disturbed person has raised the
    ugly head of themany more lurking on the internet.

    If anything, Amanada Todd's death is not in vain.

    Hopefully, it will be a lesson to young people of
    the devastating aspects of internet and
    hopefully will open the eyes of many more youth,
    who are not aware of the dangers of giving too
    much info about themselves on the internet.

    Amanda Todd's 5 min of being on a webcam turned
    her life into anquish and pain and eventual death.

    It's insanity!
  9. DakotaD posted on 10/14/2012 11:13 PM
    very sad story, wish it didnt happen. but this country is based on freedom of speech and with the creation of the internet, that just made it that much more free. i wish people would realize everyone is human and no one deserves to go threw what she or any of the other countless one who both already went threw it and are going threw it now. but with the open free-ness that is called the internet this is gonna keep happening. cause yes some may be arrested but some will get let off of there charges too because of all the loop holes and freedom they have on the internet. but i do beleave they have enough to arrest the guy who took the pic and started it all by spreading it .
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