Bethany Mota is the picture of elegance on the September 2015 cover of Latina magazine. The 19-year-old YouTube star andDancing With the Stars alum opened up to the glossy about how she overcame some obstacles in her life. Check it: On being cyber-bullied: I felt hopeless. I had really bad anxiety. I would have panic attacks […]
KUSA – A family has rallied for legislation after one of the daughters tried to take her own life due to cyberbullying. Now, that crusade will hopefully prevent more cyberbullies and bring those who torment others to justice. Kaitlyn Arellano, 14, is excited to start high school in the fall. She’s even more excited that […]
A study of more than 16,000 Boston-area high school students suggests cyberbullying is on the rise, most sharply with girls as victims and abetted by the prevalence of smartphones among teenagers. The percentage of the students who said they experienced cyberbullying jumped from 14.6 percent to 21.2 percent over a six-year period ending in 2012, […]
A Glen Rock police detective charged with sending sexually explicit text messages to two teenage girls he was supervising as the borough’s juvenile officer, and exchanging nude photos with one of them, on Monday moved a step closer to being released on bail with an electronic ankle bracelet. During a hearing in Hackensack, Superior Court […]
Dentists don’t generate a lot of online love. But in the annals of negative dentistry feedback, no practitioner has earned quite the same torrent of invective as Walter Palmer, the now-notorious killer of Cecil the lion. A quick scan of the Yelp page for his now-shuttered practice, River Bluff Dental in Bloomington, Minnesota, yields “reviews” like this one: […]
A Glen Rock police officer accused of sexting teen girls to go free on bail Thursday. Bergen County Superior Court Judge Susan J. Steele imposed several conditions on Detective Sgt. Eric Reamy in addition to the $250,000 bail payment. Reamy must wear an electronic bracelet that will alert Bergen County Sheriff’s Officers if he leaves the […]
Michael Cleland was nervous — he had spoken to groups of people before, but he wanted this speech to make an impact, to change behaviour, to save lives. Students at Glenroy College in Melbourne’s north thought they were in for a boring power-point presentation about cyber bullying — they had heard the warnings before, but […]
This morning NBC’s Today show picked up on the story of Katie Fehlinger, a CBS Philadelphia meteorologist, pregnant with twins, who has been cyber-bullied by viewers. One viewer went so far as to say that Fehlinger sticking her pregnant abdomen out during her forecasts was “disgusting.” So Fehlinger penned an open letter fighting back against […]
Nova Scotia’s anti-cyberbullying law, enacted after the death of Rehtaeh Parsons, faced a constitutional challenge in court as a judge agreed on Tuesday to hear arguments on whether it violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Halifax lawyer David Fraser asked the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia to hear the charter challenge of the Cyber-safety […]
