A boy aged ten was being bullied so much at school he tried to escape, his mum has claimed.
Even when he was removed from Baynards Primary School in Tiptree he was subjected to offensive messages...Via post? Text message?
...on Facebook.Ah. Which, being under 13, he shouldn't even be using. Not that anyone will point this out to cretins like our Prime Minister.
Still, now his mum knows she will remove his access immediately and...
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Mrs Dubbini has met with headteacher Nerys Maidment and a governor, but says she did not feel reassured and subsequently contacted the police.FFS!
An Essex Police spokesman said: “Police have received a report of a child being harassed on social media.
“Officers have made an appointment to take a statement.”Well, of course you have! It beats finding real crimes to tackle, I suppose...
It's a win-win for the police and the "victim"; it's easy for the police to go after social media "crimes" as the evidence can be called up quickly without Plod moving from their desk. The "victim" knows that Plod are duty bound to investigate any complaint and so will get the attention that they crave. The only loser in all of this is the person who has been a victim of serious crime; perhaps they have been mugged, assaulted, or burgled, but are left waiting around because Plod have launched an investigation due to reports of someone saying "nigger" on Twitter...
ReplyDeleteXX A boy aged ten was being bullied so much at school he tried to escape, his mum has claimed.XX
ReplyDeleteESCAPE.....?
What did it do then, dodge the search lights, dogs, mines and machine gun posts, and do a runner over the garden fence?
May be you should have a word with the camp gusr..... sorry "PARENT(S)"
As an ex-policeman i can assure you that facebook complaints are a pain in the derriere.
ReplyDeleteForce policy dictated we had to deal with them. i recall a chap in his 40's being particularly arsey with me when i revealed that enquiries with facebook showed that his 'abuser' resided outside the UK and there was nothing that could be done. Apparently i was expected by him to go to America and force them to hand over details of who had been calling him names.
I really wish that i could have pointed some 'victims' in the direction of this site to make them understand a bit of name-calling does not require the police.
The problem i suppose is that when some vulnerable depressed person commits suicide and the press get hold of it, it's then all the fault of the police because they should have intervened.
I don't know if i can convince Blue Burmese with my anonymous words, but locking up a violent criminal or burglar gave much more satisfaction than writing out lots of Data Protection requests for interenet enquiries. Also, those forms would always take second place to a mugging or burglary victim, but that is just my experience of being an ex-officer.
Personally, i don't think someone should get away with calling someone the 'N' word on Twitter. Blame the person for writing such offensive terms, not the police.
"The "victim" knows that Plod are duty bound to investigate any complaint and so will get the attention that they crave."
ReplyDeleteSpot on!
"ESCAPE.....?
What did it do then, dodge the search lights, dogs, mines and machine gun posts, and do a runner over the garden fence?"
I'd be happy if they had such precautions on ALL schools... ;)
"Personally, i don't think someone should get away with calling someone the 'N' word on Twitter."
Unless they themselves are of a dark complexion, I suppose? Dawg..