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Also in response to his death, reigning Miss New York Kaitlin Monte founded an online petition to bring the issue of cyberbullying (known as "Jamey's Law") to New York legislators. [13] Shortly after, State Senator Jeffrey D. Klein proposed new cyberbullying legislation. The two joined to launch the New York Cyberbully Census.
Sulli (1994–2019) (born Choi Jin-ri), age 25, was a South Korean actress, singer, model and ex-member of f(x). On October 13 or 14, 2019, Sulli died of suicide by hanging, due to depression caused by cyberbullying. Amanda Todd (1996–2012), age 15, was a Canadian high school student who died from suicide due to school bullying and cyberbullying.
Megan Taylor Meier (November 6, 1992 – October 17, 2006) was an American teenager who died by suicide by hanging herself three weeks before her 14th birthday. A year later, Meier's parents prompted an investigation into the matter and her suicide was attributed to cyberbullying through the social networking website MySpace.
Todd's mother, Carol, established the Amanda Todd Trust, receiving donations to support anti-bullying awareness education and programs for young people with mental health problems. A Dutch-Turkish man, Aydin Coban, who was already imprisoned for sexual blackmail in the Netherlands , was extradited to Canada to face trial on charges of harassing ...
Following several cyberbullying cases where the victim committed suicide, states have pursued both educational and legislative approaches to combating the phenomenon. [4] By 2011, over forty-five US states had implemented laws against digital harassment, although many of these were focused on school policies for dealing with bullying and ...
Natural Born Killers would appear in theaters in the summer of 1994, just as the twenty-four-hour news cycle was tightening its stranglehold on American life. CNN came on the air June 1, 1980, and ...
Rebecca Ann Sedwick (October 19, 2000 – September 9, 2013) was a 12-year-old American student at Crystal Lake Middle School in Lakeland, Florida who died by suicide when she jumped off a concrete silo tower, just 1 month and 10 days before her thirteenth birthday.
In Vermont, laws were subsequently enacted to address the cyberbullying problem and the risk of teen suicides, in response. [2] In 2008, his suicide and its causes were examined in a segment of the PBS Frontline television program entitled "Growing Up Online." Halligan's suicide has also been referenced in many other news stories on bullying.