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Amanda Todd : Victim or Attention Seeker ?

October 28, 2014
By Kamikam720 BRONZE, Jeffersonville, Indiana
Kamikam720 BRONZE, Jeffersonville, Indiana
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 Amanda Todd is the victim of bullying. She was the new girl in town. She wanted to go on Facebook and try and make some new friends at her new school online. She was talking to these guys and they wanted her to show them naked pictures. She was hesitant and didn't want to, but she wanted the boys to like her so she did it. 

 

  When she started school everyone had found out about what she did. Those boys told and showed everyone what she did. Then one of the guys his girlfriend was mad. She went up to her and called her names, pushed her, and laughed at her. All she wanted was friends, but those boys ruined it for her. She changed schools and tried to move on, but what she did followed her everywhere. 

 

  One day she got fed up with having to deal with everyone. She decided to document her own story. She wrote down what she did, what happened to her, and what the other students did to her. And as you can see in her video towards the end, she shows how she killed herself.  

 

 We watched her story in my class, and few people said she got what she deserved. I was appaled. To think some others can look at that video and say she did that to herself. She just wanted to make friends and she tried to kill herself by drinking bleach. Even though she was saved how can someone sit there and ask a poor, defenssless girl can they see her naked ? That's sick. And there was only one person arrested from the Netherlands that was involved with this case. They're still looking for her attackers. 


The author's comments:

I heard the responses from people in my 4th period class about this topic. 

 
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