a lot of parents want to control everything their child does online, right? the sheriff said it s a really important message. a lot of times it s the cell phones they re looking at, not necessarily the laptops or where you have your blocking software, but the apps on the phone are so important. the sheriff said they re so important that parents enact controls on those, too. things like ask.fm, that app, or kick. both of those, she was on both of those apps and her mother said, her mother told the sheriff, when she saw her that night before she went to bed, she was in bed on her phone. cell phone. cell phone, cell phone. parents, take note. finally with you, tell me about the kid fighting bullying. we went down and met this incredible kid, jalen, and he s got this campaign, jalen s challenge. and their motto is bullying, no way. he made me promise to give you these bracelets. jalen s challenge, bullying, no way. he s 13 years old, he has tourette s syndrome. he would get bullied a
police say administrators even tried changing her schedule. rebecca was hospitalized in december for cutting her wrists. this e-mail shows the sheriff s office opened an investigation and then closed it. her mother eventually pulled her out of crystal lake middle school all together. but the bullying didn t stop. it continued on social media. some of the juveniles have told us that rebecca was absolutely terrorized on social media. by some girls. cnn was at this rally monday where some students opened up about bullying at crystal lake. there were confessions and apologies, but police believe rebecca was already dead. the sheriff says she jumped from the tower of an abandoned cement plant. sheriff grady judd said laptops and cell phones from about 15 middle school girls have been confiscated as part of the investigation, and they found messages sent to rebecca on several social media sites.
jumping off a tower. and just hours before her death, police say rebecca texted a boy she met online and told him that she couldn t take it anymore. now, rebecca falls into this tragic number of teenagers who have taken their lives because of cyberbullying, but there is a twist here because it involved a cnn crew who just happened to be at rebecca s former school the day she killed herself. sarah gannon has more. bullying. a pledge to stop bullying at crystal lake middle school. no one knew it then, but that very day, one of their former classmates killed herself. she was being bullied, the sheriff s office says, by girls at this school. heartbreak, and another rally hours later, once her family found out what had happened. i love my sister. it was so secret that rebecca was being bullied. there were fights in school and