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Teen suicide prompts calls for Italy cyberbullying law
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Italian lawmakers yesterday called for a law against cyberbullying following the suicide of a 14-year-old girl whose cry for help on a website was met with a torrent of abuse and encouragement to self-harm.
“Kill yourself,” “Nobody wants you” and “You are not normal” were some of the comments received by the teenager on the social networking site Ask.fm after she turned for advice when her boyfriend left her.
When she posted photographs of cuts she said she had made on her arms, one person wrote: “I hope that one of these days you cut the big vein on your arm and die.”
The girl, who called herself “Amnesia,” jumped to her death from an abandoned hotel in her hometown Fontaniva, near Padua in northeast Italy on Sunday.
“We can no longer read about young people who take their lives because of threats and psychological pressure,” Micaela Campana, a member of parliament from the center-left Democratic Party, said.
“It is urgent that parliament discuss a law on bullying and cyberbullying soon,” said Campana, who has proposed a draft bill that would increase the punishment for Internet abuse.
Mara Bizzotto, a member of the European Parliament from the Northern League party, asked the European Commission for stronger EU legislation so that there can be “justice.”
Prosecutors in Padua have opened an investigation.
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