Amanda Todd: Police Searching For Online Predator Who Bullied 15-Year-Old Into Committing Suicide

young girls: you WILL be labeled a whore if you show your business….

Parents need to start early intervention and talk about everything from self respect to bullying and proper internet usuage. Talk to their kids and monitor internet. We live in a cruel world and sick people out there. It's not the same as we were growing up.

I hope they catch the guy.so sad how so many people bullied her .she didnt deserve to be treated badly.r.i.p amanda todd

I do not blame those kids that have repeatedly gone into school with guns and shot a bunch of people. This is the start of that. Some break, others burst. It's just sad…

Sad.

2 little 2 late. Maybe they should have done this before she killed herself.

Heard the guys name is garret that stalked her

Garret Roden

I don't understand,after she moved she still had a Facebook so he could find her?

what the hell she doing flashing a stranger?

no, he created a facebook page with the flash picture as the profile

The person that shared rhe photos should be charged with a crime or several in my opinion! I will pray for her and her family! Bullying has to stop it is wrong and its been going in for centuries….maybe the small minded individuals and hateful people will come to a realization and stop….. one can only hope and dream

if you did it before maybe the girl is still alive today..

I seen this young ladys video last night and my heart goes out to her and her family. Its so easy to be sucked in at her age. I hope they catch they creep and throw him in jail. also I think the kids who played a part in this should also be charged and all internet use banned for good.I have always told my girls that if someone starts the bullying on them to just kick their butts and it will let them know it isn't flying with them.

Its sad what happened but no child or adult should ever be bullied no one is perfect and she was a young beautiful girl who took her life because of stupid people who could of just left her alone be no they need to say something then spread rumors and make it even harder for the young girl who was dealing with enough from this stalker

Computer in full view of adult supervision would prevent nude pictures.This girl could have benefited from a family oriented lifestyle where supper together, doing homework, a little tv and a limited time on computer not in bedroom but in family area and limited time on the silly phones parents get their kids. Parents are not doing their job.

This just breaks my heart. There should be no tolerance for bullying in schools every where and severe consequences for those that bully other kids. In my opinion bulling is a form of torture. And to all those people on facebook making pages disgracing and making fun of this girl should be ashamed of yourselves she killed herself because of people like you let her finally have some peace.

Poor girl, wished somebody helped her earlier. Hope they find the person fast who made her life horrible and that he gets punished.RIP beautiful girl!!!

Everyone should post things about this loser!!!

My thoughts exactly!!!!!!!

Parents. Should. See. What. Are. There. Children. Doing. On Facebook. And. Should. Be. Noisy. There. So. Many. Strangers. Now. U. Can't. Trust. Them. Wake. Up. Parents

This sick scumbag will get his in the end. He will be judged

society doesnt really show that it is frowned upon. look at girls gone wild……

i know. the more technical we get the dumber some get. ET is just laughing at us right now.

some people find any reason to bully and its up to parents to keep track of what their kids do. at 15 kids do things, and society does not really frown on them they say put them on birth control teach them about safe sex. no teach them about abstinence.

i got bullied in school most my life but i also fought back too. ppls with mess with other far any reason. mine was i was too short and skinny as a kid. never stopped me for standing up for myself when noone else would help me.

Yea but it said "he found her again"

Someone needs to make the guy responsibles life a living hell for what he did…

Yeah, I see that now. There are many search engines that provide personal information about a person. All a person needs is a first and last name as well as a recent city and bam, information is available. More in depth information, however, like phone numbers and stuff like that has to be paid for, however, I don't think that the guy who did this cared, and willingly paid the small fee.

I can't say it any better than this! This story is so very sad

They should of done something before it was to late! She was just a child when she made this mistake I'm sure it was an older man who talked her into this.

But she's 15,she didn't have credit cards or a lease or phone in her name…bills are usually how those searches work. The only way to find a 15 year old is social networking. Maybe she just thought it was done

What was her relationship with her dad?

It becomes easy to do things like that when someone is flirting with you or coaxing you and they seem interested in you. Young girls are very impressionable, especially the ones without a dad at home

This is tragic, and it is too sad that a vulnerable child could be lured into a situation that has such devastating consequences. The ones who bullied her, I hope this teaches them that their actions do indeed have consequences and words can hurt much worse than being slapped in the face.The lack of empathy and compassion in todays youth is really rather frightening to me, and it is something that needs to be taught, parents are totally dropping the ball when they raise young adults to be so harsh cold and judgemental. I have no sympathy for those who bullied this girl and I hope they catch the creep that set in motion this terrible chain of events.

that guy who posted the picture is nasty and needs to rot in jail for promoting child pornography I feel so bad for what happened to her , being bullied like that is so down right cruel she didn't deserve that…my heart goes out to her family.

That's perfect, every parent should do that from the min.there kids start to using internet!

You mean what the hell was she doing? She's dead now. The better quiestio is where the hell were her parents?

One thing that still bothers me about the story is how she was "lured".

Ladies on the internet, can you explain to me how someone would "lure" you into showing your breasts over the internet?

She's really not the angel that all the media outlets are making her out to be.

Her story is sad; don't get me wrong. I can, to an extent, sympathize with her family; my own mother committed suicide out of depression.

However, my mother didn't flash anyone over the internet, and didn't sleep with another man just to get beat up by his wife.

The way I'm looking at it, Amanda brought this upon herself in more than one way; bad decisions and a situation poorly handled is what Amanda Todd's death represents.

This guys a real piece of shit. I hope he gets what's his.

Why did Facebook even allow a naked picture as the profile picture? And why would she flash a stranger like that in the first place? Where were her parents? This is really unfortunate all the way around. Her parents should have had the police searching for this guy when they decided to remove her from her school and send her to another. Not sure why they waited for her to kill herself before searching for the guy. Everyone could have been more proactive.

Maybe someone should have told her there are consequences to sharing naked pictures of herself with strangers. Hello, really! How sad that know one had the decency to guide this young girl!

This is my opinion on this topic . The sent naked picture to a complete stranger over the Internet . My point is why do you do that

What about the kids that bullied Amanda? The ones that beat her up and wrote horrible things about her on Facebook. They should be held accountable too.

Blame the victim, are you a Republican? She was a child seeking love and approval so she made a poor decision to flash this guy for a second. Would you figure this guy to send the picture to everyone you know? Should a decision made by someone without the full ability to reason the consequences (that does not occur until closer to 18 ato 20 yrs) have this kind of affect? She did nothing wrong and was abused physically and verbally, stalked by this asshole from place to place, and finally could no longer handle the abuse and killed herself. Yeah Promit, she was a real bad girl and deserved it all and you don't deserve to breath the same air as the rest of us because you are an idiot and an asshole. I hope they find this guy and he goes to jail for a long long time. I think all the bullies that perpetuated it need to be punished as well.

Its ashame the didnt investagate sooner what a waste of a young life. My heart goes out to her family goes to show u parents need to closely monitor their kids

So he will be charged with manslaughter and distribution of child pornography. Still not enough. One charge of distribution for each person he sent it to.

I can say from my own experience when I was a teenager, it's very easy to be talked into doing something like that, especially when your self esteem is very low. Also my mother worked from 2pm to 10pm at night so she was never around when I was on the computer…It's terrible what that person did, spreading those photos…and it sucks that it takes a death to do something more!

I hope they catch him. What a creepy freak show. That was a 13 year old girl he was trying to blackmail. "Put on a show," what the fuck. He should've been caught and humiliated on To Catch a Predator.

I've been thinking about this all weekend. I'm sure Canada has some sort of equivalent to the American F.B.I. Why weren't they involved the FIRST time this person was sending her topless pics???

Agreed, however the problem should have been addressed alot earlier.

Mireya Vera Because it wasn't relevant, topless pics are sent all the time, they ain't going to call out a internet man hunt for a school girl error.

Nathan Pettit She should have done something a lot earlier

Nail the bastard for child porn she was 15, underage. And He was indirectly caused a murder so he's also an accomplice to murder he better not walk or someones gunna get shot.(XIII).

Haha yes u are exactly right Jack

Why don't you all stop pitying Amanda? She's dead now. There's nothing you can do about it. Stop pitying her and making her dead body famous when you can be saving that girl or boy that gets bullied daily at school. Instead of coming home crying and throwing a tantrum about how Amanda killed herself and how horrible it is, which it is, don't get me wrong, and go talk to that kid sitting alone at lunch. Help the kid that some jock knocked over. Help the kid that just got slammed into the lockers. Stop pitying the dead.
Amanda Todd showed her boobs out of free will. No one made her. She had sex with a guy that had a girlfriend and she knew it. They bullied her because of her actions. She was 15 years old. I'm sure if someone had sex with your bf/gf, you'd be pretty angry too.
You all could be saving a life right now but instead you're on the internet crying because a girl you don't even know killed herself. Yes, they should find the guy that showed everything the picture of her boobs, but it was Amanda's fault for showing them in the first place. She knew what could happen if she did. It's the internet.
So once a gain. STOP PITYING HER. GO SAVE A LIFE INSTEAD OF ONE THAT YOU CAN'T SAVE. She's dead. She's gone. There's not a thing you can do about it. But that kid that's sitting alone at lunch? The kid that had their books knocked out of their hands? That "nerd" everyone laughs at? You could save their life. Sharing Amanda's story is going to make those being bullied think it's okay to kill themselves. They'll become famous because of it and make people care. That's wrong. You should all care that they're alive, not dead.
Get over yourselves and fucking help someone that needs help.

Whot goes around comes around. When them bullies have there own kids how would they feel if sombody was to bullie them. Such a sad story.

Why does it take someone to die before investigation even begins no one ever worries untill we find a child dead that's the law for you its a shame what happened to Amanda Todd but this should have been taken care of before she died not after you could of saved her but now your worried but wasn't then

I can only hope that the person responsible for this is caught and severely punished. It is an act of a pedophile. She was a 15 year old girl. She is dead because of the acts of this individual. To the bullies that tormented her—-I hope that you are tormented with this for the rest of your lives. It is also because of your stupidity that this poor 15 year old girl is dead and will never walk this Earth again. How could anyone be so mean? I hope you all learn a lesson. To Authorities——too bad you didn't act BEFORE Amanda took her life.

I hope they find these doush bags & face the justice system!. One thing for sure nobody has the rights to mess with kids!, kids belong to Jesus & they will be in Jesus arms once they leave this world!.. I hope her family finds peace to remember & honor her in a day of remembrance in her name!…

Hope

Lots of people make stupid decisions and do things they regret later. Especially teenagers who think they are invincible and despite all the warnings we give them they still dont realize the dangers of the internet. What she did was dumb but no one has the right to harass and bully someone over a stupid decision they made.

The. Periods. Only. Cause. Annoyance. And. Do. Not. Help. Get. Your. Point. Across.

And kids do stupid things It isn't about not trusting them… it's about teaching them to do the right thing in the first place. Also the parents of the bullies should be questioned as well.

I heard that there is more than just one guy because this wasn't just a one time thing. She went on the webcam and flashed lots of guys.

wow……weak

exactly, she was an attention whore. nobody should be feeling bad imo. it seems like it was a hobby to her.

she shouldn't have done it in the first place

I mean your bound to be blackmailed when you send a lot of guys nudes.

I agree to an extent about how it may be confusing to be lured online but she was in 7th grade! She probably wanted attention and probably wanted to be complimented… I was in her spot around her age too. Self respect is something you learn as you mature and get older and sometimes you need to make mistakes to figure things out on your own…

Words just can't describe any of this! Would like to know how this guy was able to post, as a profile, naked photos in the first place. I hope they track this guy down. And to her "friends" who shunned and bullied her, you are just as bad. What she did was stupid, she was a kid. But for all of them to continue to hound and shun her for a mistake that I bet many of them probably made as well… SCREW YOU! You should all face charges too! I hope the wheel of Karma quickly rolls over your lives. Just incredible stupidity and cruelty. To Amanda, I hope you are at rest! To her family, my heart and condolences go out to you all!

Not the Angel she's made out to be? Dude, she was a 12 yr old girl when she flashed someone online. Also, please note that the information you are basing your views on are the same facts everyone shares. We are all aware of her mistakes, as she herself was aware and made public in her video. There are thousands of girls, just like her, that do silly things like her. They don't end up with a stalker like she did, nor the subsequent hatred that she endured.

I say go after her parents for not teaching her its not a very good idea to flash strangers on the internet….

She was 12 when that happened. You have to realize that MANY young women get targeted by oftentimes older men who are pedophiles pretending to be young boys, and they say the right things to manipulate the young girls. If it was a young man, not an older man, he's likely a budding sociopath. Either way, I hope the Royal Canadian Mounted Police nail the dude!

Dawn Cincotti-Posner He had somehow obtained all of her family's names. He probably realized when she moved that she went to her mom's and it wasn't so hard to find mom.

Shayna Caves: evidently you haven't heard that two wrongs don't make a right? Perhaps not wise, yet I know most people make foolish mistakes in junior high. It's just they don't get a persistent stalker creating FB pages and dragging your mistakes in front of you and everyone continually. Don't stand up for the bullies or the stalker. Please.

Dude there's a post on facebook that went viral because it's from someone who knew her. There was a list of things that isn't mentioned on any other media outlet because it would shine a negative light on this girl.

Look, I don't wake up in the morning to say that 15 year old girls who committed suicide are all devilish whores, and that's certainly not what I want to describe Amanda Todd as.

However, I'm just trying to figure the whole story out with the information I've been given. Is all the information true? I can't verify that. Will the media's version be skewed? Definitely. Am I always right, and am I necessarily right about this? No, I don't know for sure.

I'm just saying what I deduced.

She made some bad decisions no doubt, and the situation WAS poorly handled. Didn't her parents notice anything wrong? I mean come ON, she tried to commit suicide! TWICE! There are so many red flags that imply there were many other things wrong in her life apart from these pictures and the bullying she faced.

yeah..i'm confused..it's all bubble gum and ice cream to distribute child porn until the child commits suicide…where were police then…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCisyB711jc&feature=plcp

Andre B Stokes Same thing I was always bullied and Look at me naw. I'm a semi professional gamer with 4 sponsors and going strong, yea sure Im skinny and weak, but I make way more money that half of the dicks that bullied me lol.

>I play for EnVyUS. btw !

Clearly her parents didn't have much to do with her or she would never have been on a dang webcam at the very early and young age of TWELVE!! RIDICULOUS and so pathetic. In disgusted at this whole story and harsh it may seem, her parents could have prevented all of this!!

Oh yeah. Not sure about the laws in Canada but thats child pornography that the guy spread around. She was under 18. I hope they find him. My heart breaks for her. No one should go through that. They need to get the kids in her school too for harassing her as well.

Where in the living hell are the "HIB" laws?

http://bit.ly/RvsxKL

I said WHERE not what are.

I find the "stranger" theory a little far fetched… This was someone she new… well enough to flash him/her. It doesn't add up that a complete stranger on the internet forced here, by coming out of her monitor, I assume… to get naked, while at the same time going through her address book and taking down all her contacts information to later send the pictures… Seems too unlikely.

I agree they should of done this way before this happened and the kids that hurt her in any way should get some jail time too … r.i.p hun.

I found the guy's twitter

its only in New Jersey where it is harsh, everywhere else its not as enforced

Thats bs

It doesn't add up no matter what angle you look at it from.

Are you telling me her parents never ONCE noticed anything wrong? Not when she tried to commit suicide the first time, or the second time? I mean come ON, are there no red flags for anyone?

This story is full of holes; if her family was sent her naked pictures, then wouldn't SOMEONE notify the police? It is child porn after all, and that is a very serious crime.

I'm not saying she got what she deserved, but there sure as hell is more to this than naked pictures –> blackmail –> stalker –> depression –> suicide.

And that's just it Shayns Cavest you are repeating what you heard. Do you know this for sure. DO YOU HAVE EVIDENCE? DID YOU SEE HER DO IT FOR YOURSELF? You are doing the same as the others who bullied her, and with what you said you are bullying too cause you are repeating what you heard not what you know, and it's probably been a lot of people repeating what they heard which is gossip, lies repeated or told to fit another persons dislike for another person. She moved 3 different times to get away from the bullies,.

wow. kids of today believing everything they hear. plain stupid and shallow. make use of that organ inside your skull. It's there for a reason.

Stupid slut is what she is.

I am sorry for what happened to her I tried n the past to kill myself to pain killers to end it I think I was 22 or 23 years old so I can relate to some of the stuff that happened to her if I was there I would so fuck up everyone who did that to I care not for my life I jus don't others to go through this so I say R.I.P. amanda todd u r loved by those who care and by those who share ur pain beautiful angel

?!

This new young generation of kids are a bunch of big time pussies! My time we all got bullied we all got made fun of, thats life we all grew up just fine we all never tried to kill each other or hurt it each other it didn't matter!

Lol smh!!!

Well, from what I've read, she flashed some guy when she was 12 then he exposed her pics a year later and stalked her. Then, she slept with a boy who had a girlfriend later on her life (whether it was on purpose or not is unknown to me) which you would think would be the last thing she would do after being. Then, she was made an outcast by a group of children after she had sex somewhere between the ages of 12-15 (which no kid should have sex at) who were alleged to be the a group that included both the guy and the girlfriend of the guy (Tell me you wouldn't beat a girls ass for sleeping with your man).
She basically did inapropriate things more than once and was bullied for them, then she decided to kill herself. As far as I know, she was only beat up once…

The point I'm trying to make is that she shouldn't have killed herself… People have endured far worst, it's this generation that's full of weak minded children who cry if you don't tell them their shit don't stink.

She flashed someone online at the age of 12 / Guy threatens her by exposing her unless she does a little show.

She sleeps with another girl's man somewhere between the ages of 12-15/She gets punched by the girlfriend and told she's worthless and left in a ditch (which she could've easily walked away from).

She basically put herself into these situations by doing inapropriate things at such a young age.

All I'm saying is that she didn't have to kill herself over that… The children of this generation are so weak minded that they'll cry if you tell them their shit stinks. Are we supposed to encourage this type of behavior just so they don't threaten to hurt themselves?

The first thing I would've done as a parent would've been to take her computer away for flashing strangers, after hearing she had sex, military or catholic school, instead, we all want to feel sorry for her because she was a young beautiful girl who made "mistakes".

you right…

Police in Canada are NOW " in a frenzied search"? Are child pornography and child predators not considered a more immediate concern-like years back when this occured?

Like seriously though what kind of little girl sends naked pictures to some random dude

whoah i didnt fucking say that!

Parents!! Smh on them for,allowing her to exposed herself like a hoe

I am so sickened by the lack of humanity the bullies who felt so entitled to judge and harass this girl. Shame on them. Aren't parents teaching their kids empathy anymore? "Do unto others as you would have done unto you" is something that all parents should be teaching their teens. If these kids looked at their own lives and the world took aim at them, they might not be so quick to judge. I hope the guy that stalked Amanda is put in jail where he belongs. As for the others, the lack of conscience, humanity and ethics is a disgusting example of a society that indulges ego and entitlement.

She was a child making dumb decisions! I'm sure we all have made dumb stupid mistakes as kids and still do! She made some poor choices, but did not deserve to be degraded by the asshole kid who pretended to like her while he had a girlfriend then had sex w her and had his girlfriend and her friends beat this girl! None of Amanda's action warranted the hell she endured! She did not deserve to be humiliated and beat and BULLIED! Her teen years should have been some of the best care free days of her life and not hell! RIParadise Amanda!

sounds to me she was more a victim of an early start to child pronography.
doesn't help though with the rest of them out there harrasing her into killing herself.
something should have been said the minute she discovered those false pictures!

Isn't there a way to get into Amanda's Facebook find the messages from her Stalker (look even in Archived) and somehow pinpoint where exactly that computer is getting its internet connection.
Or someone could have saved the text message that was forwarded & trace the number from who/where that text was sent from?
I know this is probably already something investigators have looked in to but its worth a try.
Plus she was bullied a lot how do anyone know if SHE killed herself?

Agree! I believe that they should serve a very long painful sentence!

I don't understand why her parents werent there for her more. They KNEW she needed someone. Yes she did say she felt better that last week or two (whatever it was her mother said) but EVERYONE knows it takes a long time. Shame on the parents for abandoning their precious daughter.

I, myself has dealt with a lot of anger/depression & I do push my parents away when I am, but NEVER would they watch me go through such horrible pain for so long & do nothing about it!

she was a child who made a mistake. People aren't perfect. Especially young people. There is something called mistakes. Also why is nudity something to be so ashamed of.

Of course they noticed. She herself said she was taking therapy and anti-depressants. Also, after the physical altercation, she went to go live with her mother. That tells me the parents were trying at least. As for the police being involved, they were. She got a knock on the door at 4am, remember? She, as a child, decided not to press charges. Of course there are holes; that's life. If it was a perfectly formed story, THEN I would wonder.

It's interesting how many guys on here are saying she brought this on herself because she flashed an older man. As if you have ANY idea what goes on in a 15-year-old girl's mind. She wanted attention and sought it out in all the wrong places. The fault lies with the man and the bullies at her school. If she made a profile on a dating site, met someone from it and then had been raped would you still say it was her fault? Seems like you would.

Honestly do any of you truly know? Kind of contradicting your statements.

what I would like to know is how many more teens have to die before the world realizes.
they could have been saved if people had taken the time to let them know they weren't alone..
that there were people who care that they didn't have to suffer alone…please help me support those who are suffering.
and like my page….together we can make a difference.

I just saw the pafe of danielle king one of the bullies dark little girl with a cold heart.
She is still posting ugly things. Police should look at her page

Profile**

I think when they find this predator, they should lock him up, Then he could see all the nudity he wants, and be the inmates bitch, he deserves that, for ruining a beautiful young girls life.R.I.P. Amanda.

I still don't get who everyone is rallying around all of this. Someone kills themselves every 15 seconds, but only certain attractive young white girls are held on pedestals for suicide. She was "lured"(bullshit) into flashing her boobs online, slept with a guy who she knew was in a relationship, was bullied for it, and killed herself. Why not rally around suicide cases more deserving of our attention?

I deal with death on a basis with my work but this story really got 2 me..this beautiful young girl that made sum mistakes just like we all do was bullied so badly that she couldnt take it anymore and ended up comitting suicide..all the kids that told her 2 do it over and over are now sayin omg were sry and guess what..its to late asshole..i really hope they find this SoB that started this whole thing and see how long he lasts in jail

I know right!

I think bullys should get more concequenses for bullying the should have to register kind of like a sex offender it should stay in their record so.. maybe just then ppl woudl start understanding how serious this is…

This is a good example on why kids should not have unsupervised internet access. None of this would have happen if parents put a stop to giving kids phones with full access to the WORLD WIDE WEB it makes me sick that it happend and even sicker that no supervision was given. Its easy for kids to create profiles saying they are of age and mingle with perverts and pedafiles.

Yea not only that but come on this chick had a profile picture showing her boobs…..where were the parents when all this was taking place???

well said.. but wth? u just posted this and go and "like'd" a guy'sl post that says nasty stuff about the same little girl?

Yep agree

if she was sleeping around with an older married man why wasn't he charged for statutory (not sure of the spelling) rape or child molestation as she was only 15??????

does anyone in this day of age know the right to say "NO"? getting sucked in at that age? she SHOULD have had enough brains to shut the pc off when being in that situation or report it to somone in the first place before it ever started!

anonymous – the hacker group – has already found him and posted his info. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/16/amanda-todd-bully-anonymous-suicide_n_1969792.html

The guy is a PEDOPHILE!!! It is totally irrelevant what the child did or didn't do. Children are NOT held responsible for the acts of a pedophile. Get a brain, will you?

You ask "Ladies"? This lovely girl was a child by any definition. I'll return that and ask "Dude, how can you be so stupid?"

Kids can easily go to a friends house and use the computer there.

Your ad-hominem attacks add nothing to this discussion.

If the only thing you can say is "you're stupid". please take your ad hominems elsewhere.

Except Joanne, this news article is actually pretty incorrect. No one was "bullying" her. What they did was post information about Amandas well know secual proclivities: See Amanda wasn't tricked into appearing naked by some guy, Amanda was a well known digital exhibitionist on Cam4, blogtalk & a couple of other video chat places. She even got kicked off of blogtalk for appearing naked & masturbating on webcam.

Amanda moved alot because her actions got back to her offline life. She ended up killing herself, because her own actions made her a social periah, which she couldn't stand.

In fact if i were a slightly more malicious person i would say that she probably had a serious undiagnosed type b personality disorder: Specifically "Histrionic Personality Disorder."

Suffers of HPD excessive need for approval and inappropriately seductive behavior, usually beginning in early adulthood. Amanda hits all of the red flags.

This article is misleading in that it makes Amanda sound like the victim of focused premeditated bullying, when in truth she was the victim of her own silly choices.

How do you know all this about Amanda?

Its all part of the public record for anyone who wants to spend a few minutes researching it. It was terrible that she killed herself, but it was by her own hand that she died. In fact if you spend a couple of minutes thinking about it, everything that happened to her was nothing to do with bullying & everything to dow ith Amanda recieving the inevitable negative consequences to her own actions.

That fact is that the negative consequences of her actions did not apparently spur her own to change her future actions & the fact that she continued doing stupid things, kind of suggests, an undisgnosed personality disorder as a base root for her actions.

You want to call what she recieved "bullying" fine, i chose to see it as what it is "inevitable consequence of ones own actions."

Take the time, do some research & find out what the real facts are.

Honestly, I agree with you. There has to something more sinister in volved to cause someone to take their own life. Committing suicide is not an easy thing to do to oneself. I dont believe any amount of bullying could cause someone to commit suicide, I believe it stems from self hatred. Most likely caused by the inability to control themselves from doing something they knew was wrong. So yeah, I definitely see your point.

Crying for attention and help.

Amanda didn't sleep with any "men." She was a CHILD. She had sex with another CHILD. She made decisions like a CHILD. She had the brain development of a CHILD. For that she deserved to die?? Do you have kids?

Hey, d-bag, we didn't have the Internet. The kids today are living in a vastly different world than we did in the 70s-80s. It is infinitely harder to be a teenager today, and the ways in which kids bully each other now are infinitely worse and way more far-reaching than they were in our day. Try to stop looking at this through a soda straw and see the big picture. *rolls eyes*

I don't think you read my post carefully.

She slept with another girl's boyfriend; in order to show that I do know what it's like to lose a love one, I compared my mom's suicide, and said she didn't sleep with another man.

Please read my post carefully before replying.

I'm also 17, just 2 years older than what she is. I've known what porn and sex are since 6th grade. Many kids in my area have.

However, that doesn't mean they took the actions that Amanda Todd did (not even flashing someone over the web, just being on a shady chatroom is something most of them wouldn't do)

To be completely honest with you, the only time I have ever heard a story in my school of a girl sleeping with another girl's boyfriend is in the circles of people that deal and do drugs.

Amanda Todd did say she did drugs and alcohol to cope with depression, but that does not mean that she didn't go further while on a high, or while she was drunk. (These are all inferences that I am making from what I have experienced and from what I have heard from kids who do similar things at school. Do not take them as facts, but do not disregard them as opinion either.)

Adults and kids are going to look at her story and think differently; it's only natural.

Adults, especially those with kids, will have a strong feeling that there should have been more adults involved and more action taken, and won't place blame on Amanda, or describe her as merely "irresponsible", which is quite a euphemism considering what she did.

However, kids around my age already agree that she was irresponsible, and while her actions certainly lead to an uncommon scenario, she herself plays a role in her demise.

Feel free to differ; it is only natural that you will.

Audra Johns I never once said she deserved to die. I only said that she played a role in her own death.

Actually not really: People take there own life for any number of reasons. My working hypothesis is that Amanda just couldn't take the negative attention in her real life any more, which is common with people who suffer from HPD (an all other type B personality disorders).

In fact people who suffer from HPD are likely to make exactly the kind of choice Amanda did to finish it all, when backed into a corner. HPD suffers live lives of permenent drama & frankly there is nothing more dramatic then making a video about being a victim of bullying, then killing yourself, passing the blame on to anyone who points out that the only person one was a victim of was ones own bad choices.

They MURDERED that girl they should be executed.

here's something all of you who object to what i'm saying should read:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=450288318346122&set=a.343930028981952.76745.343919148983040&type=1

I also encourage you all to read the comments of Matthew Lane's comments, which are below this discussion.

why should a guy go to jail for a 12 year old who flash her boobs if he was threatening her she as all the right to call the police and all. Where was her parents during all this while she was in a chat room who in the world let her their 12 year old daughter talking to strangers online at that age? really people

What scares me is that the police knocked on her door the first time around to tell her the pictures were being spread. They should have taken action right then and there to find the guy, not after she killed herself. They are just trying to save their own behinds for not investigating it thoroughly the first or even second time.

Hope they find the baster and beat him down to a pulp.

@ laura cleavland- agreed. they started teaching this stuff in grade 4, before webcams even became popular. (don't get naked in front of anybody other than a person of trust, or something like that, and to know not to have sex with someone you just met.)

grew up in the 90s and 00s. got bullied all the time. had internet. didn't pose naked when asked by complete strangers. was held down and fed grass by 2 bullies in grade 6. brushed it off and told them to fuck themselves and got in trouble for swearing. sent home and got spanked by mom. went back to school the next day, moved on with life. they weren't punnished for their actions. they're still dumb as fuck. one of them actually HOPES he gets into a fight when he goes out drinking, and the other, while he's calmed down a bit because of his even dumber wife, is probably going to die by age 30 in some sort of accident with all the reckless shit he does. the problem isn't the technology, it's the attitude. kids today don't get punished for anything. therefore, they don't learn what's right or wrong. now, this in particular is a hard thing to prepare for, but you have to tell the kids right away that there are bad people out there, and knowing the signs when something is wrong. they think they're invincible. they aren't.

also, while i hate the bastard who asked her to get naked in front of a camera and recorded it, i don't blame the wife of the man she had (consensual & willing) sex with for beating her up. suppose someone slept with your husband. would you tell her not to do that and get her some therapy, or would you bitch slap her and tell her off? and when you react like any other normal human being and lose your cool, how will you react when she calls you a bully and commits suicide, blaming you? just a thought.

It's a true story!

^ I agree

And yes you are correct

Rachel Guetschow when you look at girls on girls gone wild you don't think oh i want to be just like them you think ew what a stupid slut Amanda knew what she was doing and did it because she wanted to because she was getting attention she knew it was wrong you cant blamne a man for reposting something that she had already put on the internet for everyone to see

^ it's in news reports and public records research it come on people are you telling me throughout amanda todds entire life you dont think she ever bullied anyone and are you telling me if a girl slept with yuo husband or boyfriend you wouldnt think she was a tramp and hate her guts and if a girl constantly posted nudes on the internet and masturbated for men online you would want to be her friend you guys are all just trying to look like good people but its fake

Really people do you thin a girl of her age is going to go on youtube and admit to the whole world she did something wrong no sorry she is going to sugar coat it to make herself look good amanda todd it a liar and all of you are idiots for thinking that everything you hear is the exact truth.

They probably had more important issues to deal with it. It's not that I don't sympathize, but at the end of the day, she took her own life. She was probably mentally ill.

That's funny coming from you

how so

I think someone's a little jealous

i think someone is getting booted off of my friendlist again

She was actually 12 when the pics were taken. I don't understand how the guy could got so long away with repeatedly spreading child pornography.Also, personaly I don't like stop the bullying campaign that started after her death.Come on, you all know asking people to be nice to each other won't do anything.And the sad thing about this campaign is, that it basicly failed to acheive anything bigger that claiming "BULLYINGS BAD MMMKAAY". The whole thing would not happen if police had been effective in tracking down this guy, which showed to be not impossible to do, after Anonymous found him in couple of weeks.

You are a dumb ass, Amanda WAS in fact a VICTIM, sure she flashed a camera but in AMERICA that's not the end of the world… she was FIFTEEN YEARS OLD she received constant bullying by both the man and her classmates. A girl beat the holy hell out of her and she went and hid in a ditch… when her dad found her and took her home she drank BLEACH and was taken to the hospital where her life was saved but after a few days at the hospital when she returned home, she didn't find "I hope you get well soon" on her facebook page but pictures of bleach and ditches and people like YOU saying that she isn't a victim and deserves no sympathy. TEENS LIKE TO EXPERIMENT too bad we're not in the 1800's where your points might be valid and I would be publicly executed for saying something like this to a pussy like you. I hope you know that most teens today have sent pictures of their genitalia to others and have sent videos, the difference here is that instead of those being deleted and never seeing the light of day… they were revealed to the WORLD. Have you ever heard that once something is one the internet it can never be completely removed? It's true, those pictures of her are still out there if you were to dig deep enough. It's sad that they still are out there and even after she killed herself trying to escape assholes like you who believe that she's just a whore who got what was coming to her you still have the gall to say she's not a victim and act as though her death is NOTHING.
Amanda WAS a victim of premeditated bullying. Did you know that the man who put those pics of her on the internet was blackmailing her with those to get her to put on little "shows" for him? She was trying desperately to keep those pictures hidden from the world and yet, they still got out because that heartless bastard had no intention of keeping those pictures to himself. He acted as though he had a personal vendetta against her but the worst part is, he had nothing. She was as much of a victim as girls who are ENSLAVED in sex trafficking. She thought the man cared, he treated her like his little princess and said everything that she wanted to hear and she was in LOVE. He, on the other hand was not in love, I don't understand his motives in what he did but he DESTROYED her life. Those picture may be real, but they weren't meant for the world to see. Matthew Lane, you yourself probably have taken an inappropriate picture of yourself in your lifetime, masturbated, watched porn, and possibly filmed it. To be honest, what Amanda did was pretty smart because in most cases a video chat isn't recorded nor are still pictures taken during the chats so Amanda was trying to do this WITHOUT there being a bunch of evidence of what she was doing. I will be 17 next month and I can not imagine living through the pain she had to endure between attempting to take her life several times including an over dose because she was so DEPRESSED from what not only that bastard did to her, but also what her peers did to her. Nobody should have to endure having somebody beat them up (bullying dipshit), being used and abused both physically, mentally, and verbally. This poor girl suffered from both anxiety and depression cause by her pictures being posted on the internet. I am truly sorry for this poor girl and all she had to endure in her short 15 years. To all of you out there criticizing what she did… Remember that if Amanda were your child, your friend, or a family member of yours… You would not want to see people who know NOTHING of what they speak of or of the circumstances that lead Amanda to commit suicide to be talking as though she woke up one morning and decided that she wanted to ruin her life and eventually dispose of it herself because she would build up agonizing pain and depression due to her "need for attention" and was going to attempt to kill herself because that made her SOOOOOOO popular the first time! NO SHE DIDN'T DO THAT! SHE WAS FINE BEFORE THAT BASTARD RUINED HER LIFE FOR HER! I hope he suffers a fate worse than death! I hope he lives a LONG AGONIZING life in prison because pedophiles and bastards who prey on young girls like her and cause them to commit suicide, they don't last long… I hope he is put in general population and charged with the child pornography, cyber bullying, MURDER, and I'm not sure what thy classify it as but hacking and gaining possession of all of her medical, and school records. This isn't okay and because of this man, she is dead. Yes, her classmates helped to provoke it, but had it not been for him they wouldn't have been telling her to go drink more bleach and TRYING to get other girls to beat too Amanda up. I hope Amanda rests in peace, the poor angel didn't deserve any of this. I wish her life hadn't been wasted and I wish I had been given to honor to meet her…I've talked people down from suicide before and they're still living. I wonder if I could have for her too? maybe not, her bullying was on a much wider scale than just a high school, it was internationally. I hope this clears a few things up for you because bullying is many things and even me threatening you in the slightest, is bullying so maybe before you become an expert in defining bullying and mental illness, GO LOOK THE SHIT UP nobody wants to see an ignorant ass like you posting stuff about the poor girl like this. She had a life and it was taken from her all too soon. Don't you agree? You blame her need for attention while I pay attention to the REAL problem at hand; her peers and the mystery man who posted the child pornography on the internet.

FIND the person that posted it already..FIND FIND FIND.