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"That Dead Girl": A Family And A Town After A Cyberbullied 12-Year-Old's Suicide

In September, after a year of being bullied online, Rebecca Sedwick threw herself off a three-story cement silo, sparking an international freak-out over the responsibility social media networks like Ask.fm have in fostering this kind of harassment. But for Rebecca's family, friends, and neighbors, the problem isn't technology or opportunistic startups — it's people.