Toronto: Amanda Todd, a 15-year-old Canadian teenage girl, was found dead in Coquitlam, Canada around a month after she posted a video to YouTube describing cyber-bullying she was subjected to.
Authorities believe that she committed suicide.
The description on her YouTube video reads:
“I’m struggling to stay in this world, because everything just touches me so deeply. I’m not doing this for attention. I’m doing this to be an inspiration and to show that I can be strong. I did things to myself to make pain go away, because I’d rather hurt myself then someone else. Haters are haters but please don’t hate, although im sure I’ll get them. I hope I can show you guys that everyone has a story, and everyones future will be bright one day, you just gotta pull through. I’m still here aren’t I?”
“It is a very sad case,” Paul McNaughton, her school principal said. “I can tell you we feel we tried everything we could to help her when she came to us.
“She was quite connected here. The staff and the students here are very much impacted. She had some very strong ties in the school and to staff in the school.”
Amanda’s mother, Carol Todd, doesn’t want other children to suffer like her child
“Amanda was a very caring individual. She would help others who needed help,” she told The Vancouver Sun during an exclusive interview.
“One of Amanda’s goals was to get her message out there and have it used as a learning tool for others.”
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