2 arrests made in death of bullied Florida girl

[Jazzy]

Two girls have been arrested in the death of a 12-year-old central Florida girl who authorities say committed suicide after being bullied online by several girls for nearly a year, a sheriff said Tuesday.

The girls are 12 and 14, and they have been charged with felony aggravated stalking, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities have said Rebecca Ann Sedwick was "terrorized" by as many as 15 girls who ganged up on her and picked on her for months through online message boards and texts. Some of the girls' computers and cellphones were seized in the investigation.

Last month, CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reported that the one message that her mother, Tricia Norman, cannot forget urged Rebecca Ann to kill herself.

"'You haven't killed yourself yet,'" Norman recalled the message saying. "'Go jump off of a building.'"

On Sept. 9, authorities say, Rebecca climbed a tower at an abandoned concrete plant and hurled herself to her death.

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If she wasn't online then she'd still be alive, no?

 

[Nebulous]

Some kids at that age are horrible little demons and this kind relentless bullying has been around long before the internet.

 

[Evil Eye]

If she wasn't online then she'd still be alive, no?

Maybe, or maybe they'd have simply told her to jump off a building in person and the outcome would've been the same.
Who can say.