The Story of Amanda Todd

10/15/12

               Fifteen year old Amanda Todd is the most recent teen suicide to hit breaking news. Now, a video has been found that she apparently left, as almost a suicide note. In the video, she holds up a series of cards that have her message written in marker. Also, her face is blurred out and she does not speak.

              Some of the cards said, "In 7th grade I would go with friends on webcam." The next few cards reveal that the teen began to get attention on the Internet from people that she did not know. People who told her she was beautiful, stunning, perfect. "They wanted me to flash. So I did one year later," the cards said. The teen then got a message on Facebook from a stranger who said she needed to show more of herself or he would publish the topless pictures he had taken of her.

"He knew my address, school, relatives, friends, family, names ..."

 

            Then, she was diagnosed with anxiety and fell into a depression. Her next card read, "I then got really sick anxiety major depression and panic disorder. I then moved and got into alcohol and drugs." She was constantly teased for the pictures that the man put on the internet and she started cutting. She even moved to another school and was still teased. All of these things eventually led to her suicide.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/12/world/americas/canada-teen-bullying/index.html?hpt=hp_t3