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November 14, 2016 10:00 pm
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Online Bullying Counselling on Increase, Says Childline
An anonymous reader shares a BBC report:The number of children and young people needing counseling about online bullying has increased by 88 percent over five yearst, according to a helpline. The NSPCC's Childline service said it counselled more than 4,500 children in the past year compared to about 2,400 in 2011-12. The total number suffering online abuse is thought to be far higher. Some children as young as seven told Childline how they were tormented, abused and scared to go to school. The charity said online trolls caused misery and humiliation for thousands of children. Childline's president Dame Esther Rantzen said the figures should be a wake-up call."Bullying can wreck young people's lives, especially now that the bullies don't stop at the school gates," she said. Cyber-bullying can follow them home until it becomes a persecution they cannot escape.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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