Three months to contemplate the meaning of life
A British teen got the unflattering distinction of being the
first person in the UK to be jailed for bullying on a social networking
site.
18-year old Keeley Houghton of Malvern, Worcestershire, was sentenced
to three months in a young offenders' institution after pleading guilty
to harassment charges. Houghton threatened to kill Emily Moore, who she
had earlier bullied at school. So, as if four years of tormenting Moore
wasn't enough, she wrote some rather nasty stuff about Moore on her
Facebook page, saying among other things that she's "going to murder
the bitch."
Houghton apparently sobbed during sentencing, and if you think the
sentence is a bit too harsh, consider that she had two previous
convictions for similar offenses aimed against Moore. To top it all off, she even threatened Moore in court, telling her she would
give her something "to ring the police about." Houghton was also banned
from contacting Moore for five years, and this is probably for her own good.
So, if you don't want to end up like Houghton, or those rather
unfortunate chaps who DDoSed Fudzilla, don't mess about online.
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