The case spurred a national conversation about cyber-bullying and the stresses faced by homosexual students.
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However, they also express understandable worry that the internet is filled with predators and cyber-bullying.
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Since describing the campaign against her, she has been shocked to discover that cyber-bullying is widespread.
Megan Meier, a 13-year-old from Missouri who committed suicide in 2006 by hanging herself because of unrelenting cyber-bullying.
The scheme comes after TVP officers recorded 800 cyber-bullying incidents in the last three months of 2010 alone.
He has now recently qualified as a 'cyber mentor' for charity Beatbullying and helps other victims of cyber-bullying.
During the pilot all cases of cyber-bullying flagged by a school or parent to an officer will be investigated.
More prolific are complaints about fake profiles, private impersonations and cyber-bullying are investigated.
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The deal would have required 600 hours of community service as well as "counseling associated with cyber-bullying and alternative lifestyles, " according to a letter sent by the Middlesex County Prosecutor's office dated Nov. 28.
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Yet many people feel that kid-on-kid malevolence has become a kind of epidemic, given the prevalence of cyber-bullying and, in particular, the unnerving stories of teen-age suicides that have dominated the headlines in recent months.
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Calzaghe, from Newbridge, Caerphilly county, who has already helped launch the charity's UK-wide Cyber Mentors campaign, a social-networking site staffed by more than 700 youngsters who offer advice to their peers about bullying.
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