Two weeks after Amanda Todd took her own life, her mother is speaking out about the teen’s tragic story.
Amanda committed suicide on October 10. The 15-year-old had endured years of relentless bullying.
A video the teen posted to the Internet chronicled the entire ordeal.
What started out as a bad decision turned into a nightmare, spiraling out of control.
“It made her sad how people could judge her that way,” says Amanda’s mother Carol Todd. “She realized the error in her actions, but that error could not be erased because it was on the Internet.”
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In an interview with the Vancouver Sun, Carol Todd says her daughter was not Internet obsessed as some people claim.
Amanda was as active and engaged as any kid. It was when those things disappeared that things got bleak.
According to her mother, Amanda always had the help she needed, but the bullies were always there too.
“After she got out of the hospital recently, some kids started calling her psycho and that she’s been to the crazy hospital. I talked to her and tried to tell her to ignore it, but how can you ignore things when they have been said?”
“She had therapy, she had counseling…she was on a good track. And then, the day she gets out, that happens. So, I shake my head and I think, are kids really that nasty?”
Carol Todd knew how much pain her daughter lived with.
Amanda Todd’s death has sparked outrage, and sympathy, even a police investigation, little comfort for a mother with nothing now but memories.
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