But after a video of the
14-year-old allegedly showed up on Facebook in which she appeared to be
drunk and disoriented at a party, social media became a source of
torment.
An ex-boyfriend and his friends posted a steady barrage of abusive,
offensive messages aimed at Carolina. And what started out online
spilled into her daily life at school, and among her friends in the
prosperous northern Italian town of Novara.
Unbeknown to her family, it all became too much for her to handle. In
the early hours of January 5, she jumped out of her bedroom window,
landing headfirst on the concrete below.
Carolina's sister, Talita, and some of the teenager's friends say they
reported the abusive messages from her ex-boyfriend to Facebook in the
hope they would be removed. But, they say, nothing happened.
Now the Novara prosecutor, Francesco Saluzzo, is looking into the
possibility of filing a criminal complaint against Facebook for failing
to remove offensive content that may have led to Carolina's suicide.
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