Amanda Todd: another child who just fell through the cracks

VANCOUVER — There was an outpouring of condolences on social media following the suspected suicide of a British Columbia teenager who last month posted a gut-wrenching video to YouTube of her treatment at the hands of relentless bullies. Coroner Barb McLintock said Thursday night that preliminary indications suggest Amanda Todd, 15, took her own life one day earlier. Todd posted a haunting, black-and-white, nine-minute video on Sept. 7 in which she doesn’t speak, but holds up a series of white pieces of paper with brief sentences in black marker.October is National Anti-Bullying month. As a tragic reminder of the need for this, we learn that 15-year old Amanda Todd, a former “spunky” cheerleader and Grade 10 student at the Coquitlam Alternate Basic Education school in British Columbia, killed herself Wednesday as a result of a cyberbullying campaign against her. Amanda’s story began in Grade 7 when she and friends were fooling around with a camcorder. She was urged on to a topless “flash” that ended up online. A stranger posted it on his Facebook profile and it went viral.t breaks my heart to think that no one stepped up to help Amanda Todd. Another child just fell through the cracks. She's the B.C. teenager who took her own life a few days ago, just over a month after posting a video to YouTube telling her story of the abuse she suffered at the hands of bullies.