Florence, video of the private parts spread in chat: cyberbullying during self-management
She is 17 years old Lara (real name), she attends the Saffi Hotel Institute, has her own group of friends, full of interests and, like the boys of her age, also very active on social networks. a girl like many others – that’s how the parents describe it – quiet, no problems. But everything has changed since Tuesday, she’s sick, we can’t get over it.
Last Tuesday, first day of self-management for Saffi, Lara, together with a friend, try to improvise a ballet in class. What she does not imagine why a companion of her, behind her, is filming her. In fact, to be precise, he’s only filming the private parts. That video with an equivocal content, followed by comments above the lines in the background, runs in the chats of at least four Florentine high schools. So much so that the seventeen-year-old is notified by one of her friends of Michelangelo. Lara, therefore, she talks about it immediately with the chairwoman Francesca. Let Francesca speak immediately with the chairman. But in the afternoon the news spreads, and on the young girl it rains and falls of offenses on various WhatsApp groups: If you don’t want to have these problems don’t dress like that; Come with a blanket next time, insist another guy; You all know why you go to the t … in the festeni in the center; and again: My mom says that one is finished. And then: ridiculous, filthy, putt…. Till: There are 10 million abused women and now a gypsy girl comes to break the c … o for a video. The case of cyberbullying exploded yesterday, a week later, after the parents of the minor decided to report the two to the carabinieri of the Uffizi Station (but in recent days they had already contacted a lawyer): the first for the dissemination of those images and the second for insults, defamation and threats. Most likely, at the base of everything, at least one game ended up on the mobile phones that children who attend different schools attend, and who in turn have passed those images to many other friends. The victim of this episode of cyberbullying now says she feels shocked and humiliated, but the affair has created a strong shock throughout the Hospitality Institute.
This can be seen from the letter that the professor who coordinates the class council sent to the parents: I imagine – he writes – that your children have told you what happened in the first day of self-management. I would like to inform you of an equally serious fact. Some students have, in a chat to which only males have written, offenses, sexist and ethnic insults, blasphemies and much more. I guarantee you – the teacher urges – that the texts, having read them all, are of heavy violence and vulgarity and go beyond all limits and understanding. They are terrible attacks that damage the dignity and respect of the person and wound the soul. The school is wondering about the best intervention strategy to encourage the rebuilding of relations with respect to the. Finally, the professor asks all the fathers and mothers to whom the letter is addressed to speak with their children: Ask them to open up, to show their feelings and emotions. Watch their actions and let them show you the chats in question.
The seventeen-year-old’s family, who trusts in exemplary punishment even for those who participated in the discussion by indulging in heavy and offensive comments, he is considering whether to have the girl undertake a psychotherapy course. What we regret most – tell Lara’s parents – is that she was betrayed by a friend, by a boy who goes with her own party. As father and mother we are trying to understand how our daughter is doing, what is going through her head. Alternate moments of depression with moments of anger. We are destroyed. The very young author of the video, when he realized that the bomb was about to explode, also sent a message of apology to Lara.
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February 8, 2022 | 07:32
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