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NEW
YORK (CBS) Days after an 11-year-old girl from Florida known online as
"Jessi Slaughter" became the center of a cyberbullying frenzy, the
expert who appeared on Good Morning America to talk about the case
apparently became the next target of the notorious Internet message
board "4chan."
According to Gawker, 4chan, a website that allows
for the anonymous posting of images and comments, spent the entire day
targeting cyberbullying expert Parry Aftab, harassing her by creating
bogus online rumors of child molestation and distributing her personal
information. "Parry Aftab Arrested for Child Molestation" at one
point became the number one search term on Google trends, despite it
being completely untrue.
Aftab describes herself as "a US lawyer, child advocate and expert in all aspects of cyberlaw."
Jessi
Slaughter - whose real name is Jessica Leonhardt - also appeared on
Good Morning America Thursday and said that the escalating bullying
began with postings aimed at her, regarding her alleged sexual history.
In response, she said she used her webcam merely as a way to vent.
However,
the seventh grader's attempts to get her alleged harassers to back down
failed miserably, fueling a viral spiral that features her own
profanity-laced YouTube videos; these, in turn, have led to death
threats and a psychological evaluation of her.
State police are
now investigating the alleged bullying and insisted "Jessi" be sent to
a mental heath facility because they believed she might be suicidal.
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