We have all heard of teens commiting suicide because of bullying/cyber bullying and what not, but this particular incident in particular stands out more for me maybe because she was an Irish girl, and a recent immigrant to MA to start a new life with her family. Phoebe Prince was 15 years old when she took her own life due to constant bullying via Facebook, text messages and in person.

Apparently she had caught the eye of a high school senior football player who had asked her to a dance and the "mean girls" "You know them from your own high school: They were the pretty girls who played sports, were in cheerleading, and used their good looks to date all the name-brand jocks" didn't like that, so she became the target of their wrath. She became constantly harassed and I guess it became too much for her.

What is most sickening about this particular case is that after she committed suicide, a Facebook page was set up to pay tribute to her but it quickly turned evil "Even after her death, the ty little girls left disparaging messages on a Facebook page created in her memory". The Facebook page has since been cancelled.

Seriously? What kind of monsters are these girls? You actually do something like this to someone after death, when you are pretty much responsible for their death and all over a boy ? I find it despicable that kids of that age can actually be so cruel and mean, if any of these girls were my daughter, they would get a severe beating from me and I don't believe in beating kids but this was over the top.

I really hope that these monsters will be brought to justice because it seems that not a lot is being done about it and the perpetrators are getting away with "murder". When is this cyberbullying going to stop? How can you actually raise a monster that could treat someone else in this manner? Girls can be SO mean, and yes they are worse than boys when it comes to this kind of stuff, all I can say is thank god I have a boy!

My heart goes out to this girls family. RIP Phoebe.

Read about it here