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Please visit: www.youthsagainstcrimes.org 6/14/08: Mashable reports: “Sam Leeson, a 13 year old student from Tredworth, Gloucestershire, hanged himself in his bedroom apparently after suffering months of bullying online. Sam’s mother Sally Cope, 45, said the family only learnt of the cyberbullying when they checked his Bebo page after his death. She has blamed Bebo, a teenage social network similar to MySpace, for her son’s death, and demanded a crackdown on websites that allow cyberbullies to target other users. According to The Daily Mail , Bebo users who taunted Sam on the site have since left messages apologising for their conduct. It is not known if they went to his school Sam was apparently an emo, which they go on to describe as fashion defined by its asymmetry. It was this very lack of symmetry causing the ridicule that upset Sam so very much, and is what is being attributed to the cause of his depression and eventual suicide. Of course, this new suicide is being used as a vehicle by British politicians to once again demonize Bebo in specific and social networks in general, and will undoubtedly fuel new legislation aimed at stopping cyber-bullying.” Source and for the full story please go to: Mashable. URL to Mashable: http://mashable.com/2008/06/14/bebo-suicide/ Please visit: www.youthsagainstcrimes.org