Very interesting story about an 18 year old girl
In Worcester Magistrates Court of England, an 18 year old girl was seemingly sent to three months in a young-offenders institute after being found guilty of posting death threats on Facebook, according to the Daily Mail. It's thought to be the country's first jail sentence for cyberbullying.The young defendant wrote on her Facebook page that she would kill another young woman, the Daily Mail said. The two had been at school together, where the defendant's bullying of the victim allegedly began.
The defendant already had two previous condemnations stemming from her bullying of the victim, one for assault and one for criminal damage.
According to the Mail's report, the defendant originally claimed the Facebook threat was written while drunk. However, police discovered that the threats remained on her Facebook page for 24 hours.
It is attractive to think of this case as an isolated and extreme incident. But, as has become increasingly clear, people tend to use social-networking sites to reveal just as much of their persona as they do in person.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10315030-71.html
