AllEyezOnMe Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Newsflash must have been bullied hard wow :| Newsflash did you go nude for some random in a chat room too ? Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummer4now Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Newsflash must have been bullied hard wow :| Newsflash did you go nude for some random in a chat room too ? Lol Orville redenbacher or act ii popcorn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baka Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 So if you are mean to someone online and they kill themselves you may go to jail? Or did they actually do something twisted? Never actually looked into this story really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papayas Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 So if you are mean to someone online and they kill themselves you may go to jail? Or did they actually do something twisted? Never actually looked into this story really. here is an idea. Read the first paragraph in this post on the first page before replying would help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newsflash Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Newsflash achieving societal good on a forum. My hero. Never claimed that. But those responsible for helping her story blow up are doing good. EDIT: Not worth it, AllEyez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB007 Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 You know a thread has become ridiculous when you are debating the debate instead of the subject at hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baka Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 here is an idea. Read the first paragraph in this post on the first page before replying would help. A man has been arrested in the Netherlands in connection with the online bullying of Amanda Todd, the B.C. teen who killed herself in October 2012. Officials at the Dutch Embassy have confirmed media reports that a 35-year-old man was taken into custody in January and made his first court appearance Wednesday. An embassy official said the man is accused of being behind the harassment and bullying of a 15-year-old girl from B.C., but would not confirm the alleged victim was Todd. The Dutch media organization Omroep Brabant published the news today and identified Todd as the victim in a story published Thursday. That is the first 4 sentences being generous, a paragraph. Now answer my simple question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-DLC- Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 So if you are mean to someone online and they kill themselves you may go to jail? Or did they actually do something twisted? Never actually looked into this story really. The man, who has not been identified, allegedly told the Canadian girl to undress in front of a webcam, which she did, and then he saved those images in order to blackmail her. I have to chime in here. Sure, this young girl made some mistakes but a man twice her age exploited the fact that she did make a bad decision and then tried to blackmail her. When you're young and perhaps have issues with confidence and self esteem something like this seems monumental. Overwhelming. Her parents may have tried....it's impossible to monitor what your adult child is doing 24-7. Parents work and have to leave the home. It's terribly sad...obviously, there were stability issues there and this pushed her over the edge. But it's tragic, it's not anything to condemn her for. Young people struggle with issues and although help is available, it isn't great. I know first hand. So in between the appointments that are, at best, a week apart there are 6 other days where stuff happens. And sometimes those kids can't hang on...they can't cope. It is not ok to terrorize or traumatize people. And that's what happened here - what led to it is irrelevant. How it ended is the focus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tearloch7 Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 The man, who has not been identified, allegedly told the Canadian girl to undress in front of a webcam, which she did, and then he saved those images in order to blackmail her. I have to chime in here. Sure, this young girl made some mistakes but a man twice her age exploited the fact that she did make a bad decision and then tried to blackmail her. When you're young and perhaps have issues with confidence and self esteem something like this seems monumental. Overwhelming. Her parents may have tried....it's impossible to monitor what your adult child is doing 24-7. Parents work and have to leave the home. It's terribly sad...obviously, there were stability issues there and this pushed her over the edge. But it's tragic, it's not anything to condemn her for. Young people struggle with issues and although help is available, it isn't great. I know first hand. So in between the appointments that are, at best, a week apart there are 6 other days where stuff happens. And sometimes those kids can't hang on...they can't cope. It is not ok to terrorize or traumatize people. And that's what happened here - what led to it is irrelevant. How it ended is the focus. Wise words Deb .. I am glad my kids are all adults .. parents today have it harder than they ever have .. this calls for empathy and compassion, for learning and teaching, not for exploitation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baka Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 The man, who has not been identified, allegedly told the Canadian girl to undress in front of a webcam, which she did, and then he saved those images in order to blackmail her. I have to chime in here. Sure, this young girl made some mistakes but a man twice her age exploited the fact that she did make a bad decision and then tried to blackmail her. When you're young and perhaps have issues with confidence and self esteem something like this seems monumental. Overwhelming. Her parents may have tried....it's impossible to monitor what your adult child is doing 24-7. Parents work and have to leave the home. It's terribly sad...obviously, there were stability issues there and this pushed her over the edge. But it's tragic, it's not anything to condemn her for. Young people struggle with issues and although help is available, it isn't great. I know first hand. So in between the appointments that are, at best, a week apart there are 6 other days where stuff happens. And sometimes those kids can't hang on...they can't cope. It is not ok to terrorize or traumatize people. And that's what happened here - what led to it is irrelevant. How it ended is the focus. Did the man in in question know she was underage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-DLC- Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Did the man in in question know she was underage? Not sure. But the fact that he saved images to use as material for blackmailing her (and others) makes him an ass. Should probably go out and work for a living like the rest of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB007 Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I thought about this for a while and I just realized that I'm actually more of an authority to speak on the subject then probably anyone of you. Since none of you girls have ever sent naked pictures of yourself to any strangers over the internet and none of you guys have said that you have received some. When I was young, when the internet didn't have Skype or Facebook and we didn't have webcams, some girl out of town I was chatting with in one of the many chat rooms that existed back then actually sent me naked pictures of herself, without me asking for them. I opened the email, took a couple of looks at those pics, decided she was condom worthy, and tried to setup some kind of a real meeting. I don't remember much of the story but to make a long story short I didn't get lucky. I never paraded the pics to my friends, never once did I ever thought to use them to my advantage, to embarrass her or to extort her or to threaten her in any way, shape or form. I only felt flattered and privileged. I also felt that it was my responsibility to safe guard those pics which she has implicitly entrusted me to do so. Perhaps most importantly, I never judged her. It was a small thing but it was a bit of an 'ah hah' moment to me: "Girls actually do that. I never really knew until now." I was never the type of guy that has girls falling over me everywhere I go, but over the years I started to realize what type of people judge girls' perceived-promiscuous behaviour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baka Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Not sure. But the fact that he saved images to use as material for blackmailing her (and others) makes him an ass. Should probably go out and work for a living like the rest of us. So basically he got in trouble for extortion and possibly child pornography it had nothing to do with bullying. As far as everything before that goes I feel that is on the parents and the girl herself. I am 9 years older than her and when I was her age it was still a normality for girls in the school to have naked or sex pictures spread around. We even had a few assemblies on the subject where they tried to educate the students on the risks and such. I feel I have also seen a lot of news and articles centered around how the majority of high school girls have done it. To get caught in something like this in 2014 you would basically have to have grown up under a rock and never had contact with anyone your own age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbone909 Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Another fact that people are failing to bring up is the webcam photos were taken when she was 12 or 13. This didn't happen over a short period of time ,but 2 or 3 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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