{"id":1543,"date":"2007-11-21T16:11:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T22:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2007-12-05T17:14:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:02:18","slug":"law-lags-as-taunts-ruin-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"Law lags as taunts ruin lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stcharles\/story\/77D27634D36233968625739800167159?OpenDocument\">From the St. Louis Post Dispatch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Florida, Jeff Johnston, 15, hanged himself by his book-bag strap in 2005  after three years of cyberspace bullying. His mother and principal had tried to  stop the threats but couldn&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p>In Vermont, Ryan Halligan, 13, hanged  himself four years ago, after instant messages insulted and threatened him for  months. <\/p>\n<p>And here in O&#8217;Fallon this past April, a teen, now in college,  got more than 500 sexually threatening and harassing messages through MySpace &mdash;  the same social networking site Megan used to meet and talk to the fictitious  Josh Evans.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes law enforcement can find ways to prosecute the  bullies. But much more often, the indiscretion doesn&#8217;t fall into an existing  crime category.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the St. Louis Post Dispatch: In Florida, Jeff Johnston, 15, hanged himself by his book-bag strap in 2005 after three years of cyberspace bullying. His mother and principal had tried to stop the threats but couldn&#8217;t. 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