One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CBS News published an article titled Mom to bury bullied son in Lady Gaga lyric shirt.
The Department of Education this week is holding its second summit on combating bullying. It’s a nationwide problem that was painfully highlighted this week in western New York State by the suicide of a high school freshman.
Source: CBS News
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled McKenzie man among 25 arrested in Fla. child sex sting.
Florida local, state and federal agents started the sting on June 20 and arrested more than 2 dozen suspects during its week-long run.
Authorities say agents posed undercover as 12-14 year old boys and girls and then used various social networking sites to respond and post advertisements of a sexual nature.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Montgomery Advertiser published an article titled Texas officials nab Elmore County fugitive.
Texas authorities captured a registered sex offender from Alabama who had failed to appear in court on a sexual abuse charge in Elmore County, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
Authorities located Andre Underwood, 40, in an Austin, Texas, neighborhood Tuesday afternoon, U.S. Marshals said.
Underwood was indicted Jan. 8, 2010, in Elmore County on a charge of sexual abuse of a child younger than 12, according to District Attorney Randall Houston’s office.
Source: Montgomery Advertiser
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. MySouthwestGA.com published an article titled Police arrest two child sexual predators .
Police arrested both Paul Eric Tuten, 39, and Daxesh Amin, 34, after chatting online with who they thought was a 13-year-old girl.
“I was doing an undercover chat posing as an underage female, and during the chat — it was over the course of a couple days — he ended up sending me images of child pornography,” says Sgt. Chad Kirkpatrick with the DCP Internet Crimes Against Children division.
Source: MySouthwestGA.com
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Prosecutor: Suspect in Australian bomb scare drops extradition fight.
Authorities say Peters attempted to extort money from Madeleine Pulver’s family in suburban Sydney by fastening a black box around her neck.
In a note, he said the box contained “powerful new technology plastic explosives” that would go off if she did not follow his instructions, according to a complaint for provisional arrest filed in U.S. District Court in Louisville.
Those instructions included orders to write to an e-mail address and wait for details on handing over an unspecified amount of money.
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CreveCoeurPatch published an article titled Parkway Central Student Reportedly Faces Facebook Fate .
KMOV-TV is reporting that a Parkway Central High School student has been booted from class after authorities made an arrest for cyberbullying. “Police say the 18-year-old student’s posts were very inappropriate and harassing to certain girls,” according to the story.
Source: CreveCoeurPatch
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WPIX published an article titled LI Mom Who Let Daughter Fight Says She Was Victim Of Cyber-Bullying.
After her daughter had been the alleged victim of relentless cyberbullying, Melin challenged the other girls to show their face through a Facebook posting. After orchestrating the throw-down, the suburban pugilistic matchmaker then drove her daughter to an elementary school to watch and cheer her daughter as she settled a score.
Source: WPIX
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Reading Post published an article titled Reading ‘troll’ jailed for cyber bullying.
An alcoholic loner from West Reading who tore apart the lives of grieving families by posting abusive messages and videos about dead teenagers has been jailed.
Cyber bully Sean Duffy, of Grovelands Road, is one of the first people in the country to be convicted of ‘trolling’ – the act of posting inflammatory content on the internet.
Source: Reading Post
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Daily Tribune published an article titled Utica man accused of cyber-bullying Clinton cop.
Wakeman created the page hours after receiving the ticket and over the next several days mocked Allis with Wall comments such as, “Hi my name is Officer Mikey Allis and I love pickle juice. Yum yum cum,” and, “I’m sittin’ on hall road again by dalcoma waiting for my next victim,” according to reports penned by township police Detective Jeffrey Barbera.
Source: Daily Tribune
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Bully Free at Work published an article titled Cyber-Bullying in the Workplace: Technological Bully Attacks.
Cyber-bullying can take workplace bullying to a new level. All of us know how quickly emails can spread information. Imagine how the word spreads when emails or text messages broadcast unverified rumors about a target, from unverified sources.
Source: Bully Free at Work
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