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| Felony counts for 2 in suicide |
| Felony counts for 2 in suicide of bullied 12-year-old
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 16-October-2013
4:57:2 AM |
| For the Polk County Sheriff's Office, which has been investigating the cyberbullying suicide of a 12-year-old Florida girl, the Facebook comment was impossible to disregard.
In Internet shorthand it began "Yes, ik" - I know - "I bullied Rebecca nd she killed herself." The writer concluded that she did not care, using an obscenity to make the point and a heart as a perverse flourish.
Five weeks ago, Rebecca Ann Sedwick, a seventh-grader in Lakeland, jumped to her death from an abandoned cement factory silo after enduring a year, on and off, of face-to-face and online bullying.
The Facebook post, Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County said, was so offensive that he decided to move forward with the arrest immediately rather than continue to gather evidence. With a probable cause affidavit in hand, he sent his deputies Monday night to arrest two girls, calling them the "primary harassers."
The first, a 14-year-old, is the one who posted the comment Saturday, he said. The second is her friend, and Rebecca's former best friend, a 12-year-old.
Both were charged with aggravated stalking, a third-degree felony and will be processed through the juvenile court system. Neither had an arrest record. The older girl was taken into custody in the juvenile wing of the Polk County Jail. The younger girl, who the police said expressed remorse, was released to her parents under house arrest.
Originally, Judd said he had hoped to wait until he received data from two far-flung cellphone application companies, Kik Messenger and ask.fm, before moving forward.
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