I do not know if this is breaking any rules. I truly hope I don't get banned for this, I had no idea where to say this and I felt people here would understand the most.
Amanda Todd killed herself earlier this week. She was bullied and stalked for three years; all because of a silly mistake many girls her age are guilty of committing. People are saying she deserved this and the publicity she got was undeserved and that America is messed up for the recent media hype.
Everyone seems to disregard the fact that this occurred in Canada, not America. No one seems to comprehend that this girl was STALKED for three years. How else would someone repeatedly be able to figure out her address, school friends etc.? She was emotionally as well as PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED on numerous occasions.
If this happened to anyone else they would not believe that they deserved any of this. She may have made the mistake of flashing her body but what about the person who distributed the exposed body of a PREPUBESCENT 12 year old all across the world? This is CHILD PORNOGROPHY people. For three years she was tormented and the only time she ever had any release was if she was high or drunk.
This girl took her own life because the torment was never going to end. The original stalker went untraced... Millions around the globe had seen her most private parts... She was treated as though she was a pariah, not the naive young girl she really was... Not only were emotionally draining slurs uttered wherever she went, physical harm was inflicted upon this girl.
I understand she slept with a boy who had a girlfriend. But For the first time, someone acted like the cared, for the first time in so long she was able to feel as though maybe things would get better, maybe she wouldn't be left alone again.
This became such a large media scandal because Amanda Todd told the world her story and no one reacted... while there was still time. Suicide is an ever present factor in our society and from experience I know that most communities respond by failed suicide attempts with open arms; not by saying I hope she dies out in the open, for her and all else to see. Could you live your life knowing everyone wants you dead? Knowing that they are painfully aware just how close you were to actually BEING dead? This wasn't some joke where the kids believed she wouldn't do anything. This was after an earnest suicide attempt, where she clearly wanted to leave this world. If I thought I had no one but my family and if I were gone no one would truly care; I don't know how long I could last, certainly not the three years she did.
Amanda Todd asked for help. She asked for SOMEONE, ANYONE to tell her she wasn't alone.... No one listened... and where is Amanda now?
