Her name was Amanda Todd and she was a fifteen year old student from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. A few years ago, she met a man online who took a picture of her breasts while they were video chatting; this man threat her and told her that if she did not ¨put on another show for him¨ he will send her picture to everyone she had known.        Amanda refused to his indecent offer and as he has said before, he found all of Amanda’s classmates through Facebook and sending them the photograph.

After this, Amanda and her family moved in to a new home and she turn to Drugs, Alcohol and Sex as a sort of escape from all of this trouble she was in. She was alone in the world, she did not have any friends and her classmates disliked her. This is when she tried many times suicide to quit the pain she was feeling, but she failed in each of her attempts.

A year later, the men reappeared creating a Facebook account which had Amanda’s topless photo as the profile picture; he contacted the majority of her classmates and she was again the joke of the school; she changed of school for second time.

A year later, Amanda started talking with an old friend that was in to her; this friend asked her to come over in where they had sexual relations while his girlfriend was on vacations. The week after this the girlfriend found out and together with some of her friends, she attacked Todd at school by punching and throwing insults at her in front of all of her new classmates.

Following this attack, Amanda tried suicide again by drinking bleach but her parents found her on time to take her to the hospital. After Todd got home from the hospital she looked at every offensive and abussive messages that had been left in her Fac out very offensive and abusive messages all around Facebook; her parents made the decision to move to another city and take her far away from all trouble.

The messages and teasing in her new school continued and despite taking anti-depressants and receiving psychological attention she was still feeling miserable.

On October 10, 2012, Amanda was found hanged at her home.


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