Advert.

Do NOT tell your scammer he is posted here, or report their accounts as it puts others at risk!



Death of bullied teen Amanda Todd being investigated by RCMP

Scammers blackmailing people over webcam footage or photographs. Sometimes referred to as "sextortion". Your first port of call should be www.blackmailscams.com for the steps needed.

Death of bullied teen Amanda Todd being investigated by RCMP

Unread postby firefly » Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:04 am

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/7383405.bin

Death of bullied teen Amanda Todd being investigated by RCMP
The B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed that a preliminary investigation into the death of the 15-year-old shows she took her own life


Image

Cyberbullied teen Amanda Todd, whose suicide made headlines around the world, led an active online life. These myspace photos appear to have been posted in 2009
Amanda Todd, a Vancouver area teen who told a heart-breaking story in a YouTube video of cyberbullying that led to an all-out schoolyard attack, has apparently committed suicide. In stories and posts flooding Vancouver's social media networks, #RIPAmanda is trending as people post news and condolences for the teen.

METRO VANCOUVER - The RCMP confirmed Friday that a full investigation has been launched into the circumstances that led to Amanda Todd's death.
The B.C. Coroners Service, meanwhile, has confirmed that a preliminary investigation into the death of the 15-year-old shows she took her own life.
However, coroner Barb McLintock said Friday that the case will be long and complex. Investigators know how she died, but will not release that information.
"We have an extra responsibility when it's a child's death," she said, adding that once the coroner's report is complete, the case will go through a provincially mandated child death review that will look at factors including mental health, friends, harassment and cyber-bullying.
Todd was found dead in a Port Coquitlam home on Wednesday, five weeks after she posted a heartbreaking video on YouTube detailing how she was harassed online and bullied.
McLintock said after the review is complete there may be recommendations made on a range of issues, including cyber-bullying, though she noted that it would take time given how complicated it can be to deal with the Internet.
The RCMP said a full investigation has been launched into Amanda's death.
"Serious crime teams in Coquitlam and Ridge Meadows are working together, conducting interviews and reviewing any potential contributing factors to her death," said RCMP spokesman Sgt. Peter Thiessen, in a news release Friday.
He said investigators are monitoring social media, and that Coquitlam Detachment's victim services are speaking with the teen's family.
"This is a devastating tragedy, which impacts the community as a whole. Our deepest sympathies go out to the family and friends of this young person," he said.
Bullying ranks second, behind substance abuse, for youth issues identified as concerns for the RCMP, he added.
Police are asking people with information related to the investigation to share it via email at: AmandaTODDinfo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.
Meanwhile Friday, an outpouring of public support and empathy for Todd's family and friends was posted on social media websites from people around the world.
The news made international headlines and was covered by CNN, Washington Post and the U.K.'s Daily Mail, to name a few. Countless messages of empathy and outrage were trending on Twitter and several Amanda Todd memorial sites were set up on Facebook.
Two memorial pages called RIP Amanda Todd each had more than 4,000 "likes" as of Friday morning.
"She is a beautiful young lady. I am in tears over this," wrote Jennifer Fincher, while many other Facebook users said they hoped she was with angels in heaven.
But not all the chatter was positive. Mike Mace, whose own Facebook page says he is a member of the Canadian Military, faced a flurry of shaming comments after he posted a negative comment mocking her death.
In the comment, he suggests that it's not the bully's fault that she showed her breasts and gave out her private information on the Internet.
"You should be ashamed of yourself," wrote Amber Garofano in response to Mace's comments. Another woman, Ashley Soucy posted, "have a heart."
Offensive photos were also posted on the memorial pages, including one with a person holding a gun to the head, stirred up controversy. One Facebook user called Joseph Lopez posted a picture of Clorox bleach with a caption that read "it's to die for," and in response to the outrage wrote that he was doing it because he thought it was funny.

In September, Amanda posted a video to YouTube entitled My Story: Struggling, bullying, suicide and self harm.
In it Amanda does not speak, but instead holds up to the camera pieces of paper on which she has printed her story, one phrase at a time. She documents a painful tale of being harassed through Facebook and shunned at school, leaving her feeling alone and suicidal.
At one point she talks about harming herself and going home and drinking bleach.
Though there was some negativity, most of the comments, however, alluded to how sad people felt after watching her video. Many people identified with bullying and shared their own stories of being abused in school.
The tragedy sparked much discussion online Friday about cyber-bullying and what can be done to eradicate the problem and how to provide support for the victims.
The Vancouver Sun is joining that discussion. The Sun is hosting a day of dialogue on bullying on Facebook on Friday.


http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/arti ... lice-probe

Suicide of B.C. girl in YouTube clip sets off police probe

VANCOUVER—A video glimpse into the life of a now-dead teenage girl who said she was being relentlessly bullied has prompted a police investigation, expressions of concern and a renewed call to end such cruelty.
RCMP said Friday that serious-crime teams are working together, conducting interviews and reviewing contributing factors to the death of 15-year-old Amanda Todd.
They’ve also set up an email account for anyone with any information to pass along — amandaTODDinfo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
“There are a number of areas within the Criminal Code that could be applied,” Sgt. Peter Thiessen said in an interview, though he declined to name what the sections were.
“Those involved in bullying, depending on the form of the bullying and what the end result of the bullying is, certainly can result in criminal charges.”
But Thiessen added it’s “extremely difficult” to get the evidence police need and that’s why officers are asking for the public’s help.
Thiessen also confirmed Amanda Todd’s case has “some similarities” with an investigation police conducted into a rave in 2010 in the same Fraser Valley area where Todd lived. A teen complained she had been drugged and sexually assaulted while partygoers filmed the sex act and then passed the pictures around on social media.
Thiessen would not say what the similarities were between the two cases.
Sex assault charges were stayed in the rave case, but a teenaged boy who posted some of those images online was charged with making and distributing child pornography and distributing obscene material. He was sentenced to 12 months probation earlier this year after pleading guilty to the latter charge.
Another man is also charged with making and distributing child pornography in that case.
“Our investigators are certainly looking at all areas, including social media, past conversations, postings, past actions on social media by everyone and anyone who may have come into contact with Amanda,” Thiessen said.
An official with the B.C. coroner’s office confirmed preliminary indications suggest Todd took her own life earlier this week, just a month after posting a haunting video on YouTube describing both cyber and physical bullying.
During her nine-minute video, Todd explained via hand-written notes that while in Grade 7, she was lured by an unidentified male to expose her breasts via webcam. One year later, she said she received a message from a man on Facebook threatening that if she didn’t give him a show, he would send the webcam picture to her friends and family.
She said police later told her the man followed through with his threat, and she plunged into anxiety, major depression and drugs and alcohol.
“My boobs were his profile picture,” she said of the cyberbully’s Facebook page.
She said she tried to kill herself twice.
The video ends with her note: “I have nobody. I need someone.”
The Internet was flooded with tribute sites for Todd, and posters took to Twitter and Facebook to express their condolences and to excoriate bullies.
“I just watched her video and I wanted to say, here on a public forum that, I’m sorry Amanda Todd. I’m sorry you had to go through all that, I’m sorry that people are that horrible and cruel, I’m sorry you had to experience being that alone and I’m sorry that you had to end your life so short of its potential,” wrote one person on the site entitled A Legitimate Tribute to Amanda Todd.
“You’re in a better place now beautiful,” wrote another.

Merlyn Horton, executive director of the Safe Online Outreach Society and a former youth-outreach worker, said the education system needs to teach children as young as six about the powers and pitfalls of the Internet.
While adolescents have always experimented with sexuality and exhibitionism, today’s youths are using communication tools that can have consequences significantly different from those experienced by any other generation, she said.
In fact, Horton said some studies suggest 20 per cent of teens who were surveyed have taken nude or semi-nude images of themselves and posted them online.
Adults must teach children and teens that everything posted online is public and permanent, they shouldn’t talk to strangers about sex, allow people to take sexual images of them or tolerate harassment, she said.
Horton said the highest-risk age group is children 10 to 14, the same age bracket Todd was in when the webcam images were taken.
“They’re sexting, they’re very naive, they don’t have, you know, the risk assessment skills or the ability to really realize what consequences are, or they’re open to flattery,” said Horton. “There’s all sorts of ways for children that age to be manipulated.”
Horton said police and politicians are taking the issue seriously, but the problem can’t be legislated away.
“This is a culture and an online community, and what it’s going to take is values-based conversations with adults with their kids about online conduct,” she said.
“We have to learn how to deal with this environment.”
SFU criminologist Brenda Morrison who studies bullying said the issue needs to be reframed from an institutional problem that requires an institutional response to a problem that needs to be solved by the community.
“I think no one stood up for Amanda when she was being bullied,” said Morrison. “So what does it mean to step up and offer Amanda care when she’s feeling down and she’s being bullied in public? Where was her community of care on the Internet?”

Morrison said anyone is vulnerable to bullying

“But once we’re in a downward spiral our negative self-talk can be so detrimental to us. And especially around issues around sexually, it cuts us at our core. Other kids pick up on that, we get labelled, the label becomes self-perpetuating and can end in tragedy, as we all know now.”
The B.C. government on Friday reminded children and families help is available if they are feeling alone and have suicidal thoughts.
The government outlined half a dozen phone numbers, including a 1-800-SUICIDE helpline, where people could call to get help.
B.C. Premier Christy Clark noted her government previously announced an online reporting tool about bullying and an app for smartphones will be launched in a month.
She said part of the equation of tackling bullying is to stop seeing it as the same as any other dispute at school.
“In bullying, it’s not that kind of dispute. You’ve got a perpetrator, you’ve got a victim. The perpetrator needs to be punished and the victim needs to be supported and protected from further retribution from the bully. It’s a unique kind of dispute.”


http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article ... answer-for

Amanda Todd suicide: The Web has a lot to answer for

"I can never get that photo back, it’s out there forever.’’

Forever has outlived Amanda Todd.
That photograph she regretted so profoundly, the image that haunted, can’t hurt her anymore.
The dead don’t cry or cringe.
Friends and strangers weep for her now, of course they do. Perhaps there is also remorse among those who tormented the girl — but more likely, more honestly, alarm that they will be exposed.
The cabal of bullies which badgered the teenager into suicide has left its spoor on social media. And, as Amanda elliptically reminds, their fingerprints are out there forever — on a hard drive, a Facebook wall, the Twitter detritus — and can be retrieved.
The cursed Web has a lot to answer for.
It is an inanimate thing, hardly even an object, more a fourth dimension where just about anything goes, no matter how vile and possibly even criminal. Courts have barely started to catch up with the phenomenon of cyber menace, parameters of privacy laws, execution of search warrants for Internet subscribers.
If there was a bridge previously too far to cross ethically, at least among the masses who don’t consider themselves brutes because they never laid a hand on anybody, didn’t stalk, it’s been breeched on the Web.
A whole generation has grown up lacking the restraint demanded by face-to-face encounters. They’ve embraced the concept of non-accountability, of slagging without consequences. That makes them no different from adults who go online to slime, yowling into cyberspace. But teenagers hurt more deeply, have fewer coping skills to deal with rejection and humiliation. They even think suicide is a kind of holding purgatory for lost souls, not grasping the finality of self-destruction.
For Amanda, the 15-year-old girl who took her life on Wednesday, just weeks removed from posting a heartbreaking video on YouTube about social alienation and shattering unkindness, the preying was not merely online. Her clot of pestering pursuers, youths who wouldn’t let her be, attacked in person as well, ambushed her on the way home from school, left her moaning in a ditch.
But the malice began years earlier, online. And she couldn’t escape it, not by changing schools, not by moving cities, and not by crushed attempts to reinvent herself, be born again as a girl different from the one who’d made some mistakes, youthful errors of judgment. A past that was not really so very objectionable hounded her in the present, and in the ether presence, of harassers.
I wonder what those abusers think now. I wonder what, if anything, they’ll tell their grandchildren years from now, about the time they drove a fragile girl to kill herself. More probably they’ll never speak a word of it, bound only to each other by evil secrets. And when the outrage dies down, I suspect they’ll be forgiven, because they were young and rash and didn’t mean to do such grievous harm. But they did mean it, surely; they’re not children, they weren’t just passively provoking.
When I cover trials of young offenders who’ve committed serious crimes, I always wonder: Where did they come from? What made them this way? Where were the parents and teachers and more right-thinking friends? But these are quantifiable crimes — a youth with a gun or a knife and so often palpably damaged themselves.
On social media, the harm slithers between the cracks of self-confidence, it undermines and eviscerates. Apart from the victim and the culprits blasting missives — sometimes from the realm of anonymity, sometimes as identifiable aggressors — who among us even knows when a child is suffering from cyber bullying? Many are not inclined to tell, though Amanda did.
She told everyone in that forlorn, nine-minute YouTube posting, shuffling her thick clutch of flash cards, the camera capturing only brief glimpses of her face, such a pretty face, while “Hear You Me” by Jimmy Eat World plays softly in the background.
At that point, Amanda had already once attempted suicide by swallowing bleach, had transferred schools, moved from one parent’s home in Maple Ridge, B.C., to another parent’s home in Coquitlam.
The ache without end is clear in the sentences she wrote, phrase by phrase per flash card, documenting years of bullying and shaming. It started in Grade 7 with an ill-advised and embarrassing topless photo circulated to friends, relatives and schoolmates. She’d sent it out, at the urging, apparently, of her friends. Such a minor indiscretion and so common a rite of exhibitionism among teenagers today, but this picture came back to bite Amanda a year later, on the Internet and, later, affixed to a boy’s Facebook page.
Harassment continued at her new school and then exploded into vicious taunting, baiting, following a brief involvement with a boy who, turns out, already had a girlfriend. As a pack, that couple and their friends assaulted her, the attack apparently filmed — because everything is preserved on cellphone video these days. Depressed, she took to cutting herself.
Bullies continued to vilify her, posting photos of bleach, wishing her dead. They were remorseless and pitiless.
Yet she was strong, Amanda, until she couldn’t be strong anymore. And even then, she displayed a charity that was never afforded her.
“I’m struggling to stay in this world, because everything just touches me so deeply. I’m not doing this for attention. I’m doing this to be an inspiration and to show that I can be strong. I did things to myself to make pain go away, because I’d rather hurt myself then someone else. Haters are haters but please don’t hate. . . . I hope I can show you guys that everyone has a story, and everyone’s future will be bright some day, you just gotta pull through. I’m still here, aren’t I?’’
Just a few weeks later — what happened? — she wasn’t.
So now the tributes, the condolences, pour in and Amanda’s video has gone viral. She’ll never know how many people cared, would have cared.
Her legacy is in the aftermath of tragedy. The B.C. coroner announced Friday that an investigation has been launched, warning that it will be long and complex, and the public should not expect instant answers. Barb McLintock said issues ranging from school and mental health support to cyber and social media bullying would be explored before any “reasonable and practical’’ recommendations could be made.
But how to reasonably and practically suppress the vomitorium of venom on social media? How to recondition teenagers numbed to the splatter of hatefulness?
How to convince them: Look a person in the face.
Social media is a tool without any conscience of its own. Yet it has become, in the hands of juveniles and the embittered, a malignancy.
There’s nothing to be done for sad Amanda anymore. Look around, though. Is there an Amanda in your house, in your class, among your Facebook “likes’’ or — shame on you — “hates”?
And try, for a change, the sound of silence. Not one mean word.

Just hush now.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOHXGNx-E7E[/youtube]
Help yourself by helping others - report your scammer here.
Google can be your best friend;use it if you have doubts about someone met online. If someone met online only asks for money, no matter what reason, it´s 100% scam.
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=26504
Image
User avatar
firefly
"Nut job" admin.
 
Posts: 70956
Joined: Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:27 am
Location: in a parallel universe

Re: Death of bullied teen Amanda Todd being investigated by

Unread postby Wayne » Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:14 am

This is an incredibly emotional subject. As such we've taken the decision to lock this thread and show only what has been reported in the news. I'm sure your thoughts and prayers will be with her family right now as they suffer the loss of a child under such tragic circumstances.
Click HERE for webcam blackmail/sextortion help.
Do NOT email me for sextortion help. Use the link above. If you ignore this, your message WILL be deleted.
Image
User avatar
Wayne
Site owner/"cruel and sarcastic" admin.
 
Posts: 58347
Joined: Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:13 pm


Return to Blackmail/Sextortion - www.blackmailscams.com

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 31 guests