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Amanda Todd Research Paper

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“Amanda Todd was only 15 when she took her own life at her home on October 10, 2012. Just 3 days before however, she posted a video on YouTube about her story. Millions of people have seen that video and to this day, it has over 17 million views. Many people had seen this video as a call for help, and nobody did. Here is her story before she took her life. A few years ago, during her 7th grade year, she was using video chat to meet new people. One person had convinced her to show her breasts during a video chat and a year later, someone managed to find it and caused complete chaos for her. Soon, it was sent to everyone she knew, and that had caused her to transfer schools for many reasons. Her reputation was ruined once everyone had seen these pictures, she was thrown out into the dust and left for dead. This had been going on for months now, and nothing was done. Amanda was beaten by other classmates, had no friends, and she even tried to drink bleach but was saved before she could die. A few months later, she took her own life at her home in British Columbia, Canada. …show more content…

Many people were shocked on what had happened to her. Sadly, even after she died, people were still bullying her. A Facebook group page was made just to make fun of her even in death. What’s even worse was the fact that her death didn’t affect the bullies, it just made them stronger and they continued to bully her. The bulliers continued to say that she deserved what happened to her, and made fun of her story. It was soon taken down for obvious reasons. Soon, many people were involved in the search of the one who posted these pictures. Even the famous Anonymous hacking group was on a massive search to defend her, and find the person, or people, responsible for Amanda’s death. Sadly the authorities thought they were no use for the

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