Remarkable girl, 12, commits suicide over cyberbullying, leaves family distraught: Children are lost in social media

A distraught mother has revealed the heartbreaking reason her 12-year-old daughter took her own life four days after Christmas.Adiel Boyd, from Australia, was being bullied online and committed suicide on Dec.29, her mother Victoria has said.Adiel’s unspeakably tragic death has brought her family and the broader community to their knees, with renewed calls coming to raise awareness about suicide prevention and the dangers of cyber-bullying amongst young children.Adiel was the youngest of four children and a bright student at Aitkenvale State School where she excelled academically and musically.

She played several instruments, was fluent in three languages, and was described by her mother as “close to perfection.”But Adiel had also been the target of relentless cyber-bullying, primarily occurring on social media.“She was a remarkable little girl, remarkable,” Victoria Boyd said via the Townsville Bulletin.“She was very bright, very intelligent, and she was very loving.She loved everyone.

Adiel was such a bright girl and everyone that she knew in her life had a big impact on both parties, on Adiel and the person she interacted with.She was the baby of us all.”“Children are lost in social media, it’s the most dangerous tool for a parent because there is a closed space there that I really, really try hard to get into but it’s a closed space, social media,” Boyd explained.The issue of cyber-bullying among teens has long worried parents with the Labor government of Australia approving a social media ban for anyone under the age of 16 last month.“That is where it was all occurring, in the school grounds, on social media.

She was being bullied by her friends.She was just too beautiful and she just couldn’t comprehend,” she continued.“It’s very shocking, none of us can believe this has happened.

Not Adiel.”Adiel’s older sister Tameka has launched a GoFundMe page to help with funeral expenses and to support the family through the devast...