• Comment: This was tagged five days ago. That's not a reasonable amount of time for an Afc. KJP1 (talk) 20:53, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

• Comment: I really don't think this is appropriate and am tagging for deletion. KJP1 (talk) 19:27, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

• Comment: I would be inclined to agree with KJP1 on this particular issue. While wikipedia has plenty of articles that may have a negative impact on those who are grieving, I don't know if this reaches out more that WP:ONEEVENT. Perhaps it could be added to the List of suicides that have been attributed to bullying if it isn't already there.
  Also, in reading the article in its current form, it definitely crosses the line on NPOV, and reads more like a news story than an authoritative encyclopedia article. Bkissin (talk) 13:06, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

• Comment: I'm not at all sure these teenage suicide pages are suitable or appropriate for Wikipedia. They describe children, and focus on a single event. This is obviously tragic for the individual and their families/friends but I doubt it makes them Notable, in our meaning of the term. I'm also not at all sure the impact on the bereaved of having an article is beneficial. Thoughts? KJP1 (talk) 07:54, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Rebecca Ann Sedwick (October 19, 2000 - September 9, 2013)^[1] was a 12-year-old student at Crystal Lake Middle School in Lakeland, Florida who killed herself by jumping off a concrete silo tower due to being bullied in person and cyberbullied online.^[2][3][4]

Background, history and suicide

Rebecca and her family were from Sebring, Florida. Rebecca had a very hard life.^{[5][6][neutrality is disputed]} When the bullying began in December, she began cutting herself. When her mother noticed all the scars on her forearm, Rebecca was hospitalized for a few days with counseling.^[7] When she came back to school, Rebecca was complaining that a girl pushed her while she was getting to class and that girl threatened to fight her. Rebecca's mother had no choice but to home-school her. She began shutting down all her social media accounts on her laptop, took away her mobile phone and tried to monitor her social media usage.^[7]

Rebecca was happy when she transferred to another school to start afresh.^[8] Her mother told the New York Times that she was planning on auditioning for chorus and thinking of doing cheerleading again. When Rebecca got her mobile phone privileges back, she opened accounts on apps that her mother wasn't aware of, such as Kik Messenger, Ask.fm and Voxer.^[7] The bullying started again and got worse. Although her mother Tricia was sharp-eyed and alert, Rebecca continued to suffer even more. A police search of the girl’s mobile phone and computer uncovered internet searches like, “What is overweight for a 13 year-old girl?” and “How much Advil do you have to overdose in order to die?” Detectives also found pictures of Sedwick with razor blades lying on her arms and one of her phone wallpapers was a picture of her head resting on the edge of a railroad track.^[7] Before death, she changed her name on one of her mobile phone apps to “That Dead Girl,” and messaged a 12-year-old friend in North Carolina saying, "I'm jumping, I can't take it anymore."^{[9][10][11][12]} For more than one year, the girl was cyberbullied and bullied in person.

Reports show that detectives found messages where Rebecca was constantly cyberbullied telling her to go kill herself and why is she still alive.^[13][14] On September 9, 2013 she reached a nearby cemetary, climbed up a big silo and leapt to her death.^{[15][16][6][7]}

Investigation, arrest and conviction

Last week two teenage girls were charged because they were indicted for bullying Sedwick in an argumment against another boy. The girls were under arrest last month because they were charged of aggravated stalking. The Associated Press reported, but the charges were dropped due to a lack of evidence.^{[17][18][19][20]} Their full information including pictures and other forms of evidence was finally exposed. CNN refers to it as a tipping point which can result in additional charges against bullies who are young.^[10]

Police said that the people that created those social media apps Rebecca had used did not give a list of messages she was presented with. Cosmopoltian interviewed one of her bullies and she said that detectives didn't find any text messages that was considered harassment because she claims that she did not cyberbully Rebecca. She said that she had a fight with Rebecca one year prior to the suicide and it basically ended. She stated that she did not do what they said she did and she felt like they didn't have the right to put her in this kind of situation.^[10]

The sheriff supports the idea of doing the arrest. The sheriff mentions that he would do the same action once more, he also mentions that their worry was the one being targeted by cyberbullying and the choice was correct. Using references to prove that girls have a higher chance of doing cyberbullying and being the victim, he states that he felt a virtuous responsibility when he was realizing how bad these issues really are.^[10]

Reaction

Her mother states she is very angry with those who she thinks are accountable for her daughters death, she also said that she will keep waiting for the bullies to apologize. She wants to make the laws of anti-bullying in Florida much more tough and strict but never said what they were. But her lawyer or herself could be extended for statement. On the Dr. Phil show, Norman and another women got a chance to meet up in an episode titled, "My Cyberbullied Daughter Killed Herself, Now I'm Being Harassed Online by a Stranger." In this episode, Tricia Norman and Rebecca Ann Talley sit on the opposite side and they watch a video interview where Talley shows her perspective about the suicide of Rebecca Sedwick. Talley said that it felt like Rebecca's spirit came to her as she was passing away.^[21]

When the episode was released on public television, Talley noticed that she was on the bombardment of harassment. People who saw the episode on television sent numerous messages of death and hatred to Talley on social media, which also includes recorded video footage of the episode. A person was hacking and successfully got access to Talley's "Advocates for the reopening of the Rebecca Sedwick death investigation" team and the title was renamed of how stupid she was. Facebook parties appear to keep track on each other and their status, attacking women and exposing their records of being jailed.^[21]

The troll accounts were terminated by Facebook, even though Talley's "Advocates for the reopening of Rebecca Ann Sedwick's death investigation" team page doesn't fall under the categories of violation, because due to many interviews on the media where Norman shows how she is a symbol and Talley has full rights of criticizing. After the page got successfully hacked once more, Talley tried to build it again by reposting. Although people take legal action, it doesn't help all the time. Norman earned the privileges of having an admonition against Talley due to cyberstalking, which was addressed by Tricia Norman.^[21]