cyberbullying: Hawaii

Hawaii Senate tackles cyberbullying

By Chris Mikesell, Star-Advertiser
Sheri Lynn discovered that her 13-year-old daughter was being cyberbullied three years ago when she came across the girl unconscious in the hallway. She had taken a bottle of pills in a suicide attempt. “If I hadn’t gone home earlier that day, my daughter would be dead,” said Sheri Lynn, who asked that her last name not be used out of concern for her daughter. According to a survey by the University of Hawaii at Manoa this year, one out of every 10 students in Hawaii’s schools is a victim of cyberbullying — acts of digital harassment, intimidation, annoyance, libel and humiliation that can be as simple as sending unwanted texts or as elaborate as staging a fight on school grounds, recording it with a cellphone camera and uploading it to YouTube.
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