Jessica started skipping school after she was bullied by girls but that soon led to her tragic death. A teenager committed suicide after her life was made a misery when her ex-boyfriend circulated a nude photo she had sent him around her school. Jessica Logan hanged herself in her bedroom just weeks after appearing on TV to tell her story and stop others suffering in the same way. The year-old from Ohio had been harassed by the girls at her school so badly she was miserable, depressed and even afraid to attend classes.

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Amanda Michelle Todd November 27, — October 10, [4] [5] was a year-old Canadian student and victim of cyberbullying who hanged herself at her home in Port Coquitlam , a city in the province of British Columbia , Canada. Before her death, Todd posted a video on YouTube in which she used a series of flash cards to tell her experience of being blackmailed into exposing her breasts via webcam, [3] and of being bullied and physically assaulted. The video went viral after her death, [6] resulting in international media attention. The video has had more than 13 million views as of October In response to her death, Christy Clark , the Premier of British Columbia , made an online statement of condolence and suggested a national discussion on criminalizing cyberbullying. Todd's mother Carol established the Amanda Todd Trust, receiving donations to support anti-bullying awareness education and programs for young people with mental health problems. On September 7, , Todd posted a 9-minute YouTube video titled My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self-harm , which showed her using a series of flashcards to tell of her experiences being bullied. During the video, Todd writes that when she was in grade 7 —10 , around the same time she moved in with her father, [11] she used video chat to meet new people over the Internet and received compliments on her looks.
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The parents of a teenage girl who committed suicide last year are suing the girl's ex-boyfriend and several other former high school classmates who circulated a nude photo of her and harassed her about the image. The suit was filed in Ohio by Cynthia and Albert Logan who say that the students' "degrading sexual insults" caused their year-old daughter Jessica, their only child, severe emotional distress, which led her to kill herself in July , a month after graduating from high school. Salyers is further accused of invading Jessica's privacy. It also names the Sycamore Community Schools Board of Education and Montgomery police officer Paul Payne for being negligent in not ending the "severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive harassment" of their daughter and for violating her 14th Amendment rights of equal protection and due process of law. It names the Montgomery municipality for failing to ensure that Payne would take steps to halt the harassment. The suit seeks unspecified damages and aims to force the school district to amend its policies and procedures for responding to harassment claims. According to the complaint. Shortly thereafter, the two broke up, and Salyers allegedly showed the photo to a handful of other students who in turn distributed it widely throughout Sycamore High School and Loveland High School. On May 5, Jessica reported the incident to school authorities in the hope of preventing students from sharing the image further and forcing students to delete the image from their phones.
The image was blurred and the voice distorted, but the words spoken by a young Ohio woman are haunting. She had sent nude pictures of herself to a boyfriend. When they broke up, he sent them to other high school girls.