TEENS DEATH HIGHLIGHT CYBER BULLYING TREND

Teens death highlight cyber bullying trend
 

A Melbourne mother has blamed her 14-year-old daughter's suicide on the internet and the tragic case has highlighted the problem of cyber bullying among young people.

In Australia, study shows that 10 per cent of teenagers and children have experienced some form of sustained bullying using technology.Cyber bullying has very tragic consequences. Mother Karen Rae says,

"Friday night she was on the internet and told me about some message that had come through, and she wanted to die because of the message."

"I laid in bed with her in my bed and we discussed it for about an hour and she left me fairly happy. I can guarantee you if she didn't go on the internet Friday night she'd be alive today."
The girls death has bought pain to her family. Her parents are devastrated and wants proper laws against cyber bullying.

Dealing with Cyberbullying

Nowadays, bullying is no longer limited to schoolyards or street corners. This means, cyberbullying can occur anywhere, even at home through email, texts, cellphones and social media websites 24 hours a day, seven days a week like facebook with potentially hundreds of people involved. The effects can be devastating, leaving you felling hurt, angry, depressed or even suicide. There are some tips to prevent and deal with the growing problem of cyberbullying
Firstly, savingf the evidence of the cyberbullying, keep abusive text messages or a screenshot of a website. Secondly, reporting threats of harm and inappropriate sexual messages to the police. Thirdly, Being relentless, cyberbullying is rarely limited to one or two incidents. Lastly, preventing communication from the cyberbully. by blocking their e-mail address, cell phone number, and deleting them from social media contacts.
To sum up, obviously, cyberbullying should be stopped through these tips. These tips are very helpful for parents and teachers to stop cyberbullying because kids are often to tell parents or teachers about cyberbullying.

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/cyber-bullying.htm

-Seon Yong Kim-

Australian Bullying Law

Legal frameworks regarding bullying are diverse. The federal nature of law in Australia means that recognition of bullying varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Targets of bullying accordingly rely on a range of statute and common law in dealing with the problem. It is important to have a mechanism for ensuring that organisations are aware that bullying in the workplace or schools is unacceptable.

Remedies

Legal remedies in Australia have included action under -

• Anti-Discrimination Legislation
• Common Law (eg for physical and/or psychological injury)
• Constructive Dismissal aspect of Industrial Relations Law
• Occupational Health & Safety Law
• Workers Compensation schemes
• Criminal Law
  

Those remedies reflect expectations about individual responsibilities and restrictions on things such as assault and workplace discrimination. Sodomising a cadet as part of military hazing, setting fire to an apprentice as part of workplace initiation or leaving pork chops in a Muslim colleague's locker is frowned on; physical injury may be rewarded by criminal sanctions against the perpetrator. The bullying that occurs among university academics and in the professions may simply go unreported and be accepted as appropriate industrial discipline aka professional practice.



Punishment for cyber bully's!

Hey this is Leep8033 and within this post i want to address the punishments of cyber bullying, so those of you who are secretly cyber bully's, this is aimed at you!

As we all know, cyber bullying is a product of the new technology that has come, and it is not always a good thing that it brings. Bullying from the playground has taken another level to the online world being much more severe and consequential. Just like how bullying is inappropriate on the playground and just like how there are punishment for bully's, there are punishments for cyber bully's and protection for the victims as well.
Because cyber bullying can cause much more harm on online rather than physically, action has to be taken against the people who cyber bully. Now there are no actual laws that states anything against cyber bully's but because some cases become very severe, lawsuits and prosecutors are using methods to convict cyber bully's for their deeds. 
It is commonly known that criminal harassment has been a basis for cyber bullying to start off with and also that in severe cases where the victims may be on the line of suicide or have committed suicide, can have the cyber bully's be criminally charged. 
For the punishments of cyber bullying, it depends on the country/state that you are within, but they can range from being suspensions/expulsions from schools (if you are a student), also you can be punished with jail time for criminal misdemeanors and even felonies. Not to mention you can be fined and also serve juvenile detention for young criminals.
As of yet, cyber bullying is rapidly growing just like the online environment so governments and the law are now taking attention to the online threats that are being posed by cyber bully's, creating policies and regulations that protect you online. And the growing of punishments are growing as well to protect people and to punish those who commit such an offense.

So to the people who are cyber bully's, be prepared for your days are limited and you are BOUND to get caught!! 

Also here is a quick intro to what cyber bullying is! please have a look :)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNumIY9D7uY  
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