How do you fight back against cyberbullies when even the law are powerless to cease them ? One Atlanta middle - schooler mean suing for libel is deserving a shot .
When 14 - twelvemonth - old Alex Boston unwrap a demeaning Facebook page that commandeer her picture and stats last year , she immediately alerted her parents who notified school officials and the law . Problem is — Georgia ’s anti - bullying law only cover on - campus harassment . If it fall out , say , on the Internet , there ’s very small authorities can do to intervene . In this case , even though agency bang the two people behind the phony page , “ we were not cognisant of any cyberbullying law on the Quran that would take her specific situation and enforce it to Georgia law , ” Cobb County police spokesman Sgt . Dana Pierce told the AP .
And after numerous failed attack to contact Facebook for help , the Bostons have lawyered up and filed lawsuit against the two unnamed bullies for libel . If successful , this could set case law and open up a new avenue for swagger victims to guard themselves . Facebook did eventually remove the offending page ( read : last hebdomad when the wooing was file . ) [ CBS Atlanta – Image :O Driscoll Imaging / Shutterstock ]
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