Cyber Stalking Children

It also had horns and the word slut on the bottom of the picture. The two girls also went and started to post sexual comments on other people’s walls and sent messages to other people on the victim’s chat asking people for sexual favors (Riparbelli, 2011).

Cyberstalking does not just involve children, they can involve the elderly or disabled people or people that spend time on the internet. People that have broken up their relationships with other people or people that have been fired (NoBullying.com, 2014). In cyber stalking other people there are three categories that it falls into: cyber stalking where the victim is in fear and the stalker is making threats, cyber harassment where the stalker is being a nuisance, and students doing

President Clinton signed the 18 U.S.C. 2425 into law (Cornell Law School, n.d). The law helps prosecute people that transmit telephone numbers among other data about children under the age of sixteen. The law helps to protect children under the age of sixteen for predators that involve trying to get the child to engage in sexual activity. The person that does this can receive up to five years in prison or/and fined (Cornell Law School, n.d).

Unfortunately, it seems that other than that one law that President Clinton signed, there are only state laws to help combat cyber stalking for children and adults instead of federal ones. Most states have laws and some have policies and laws. Most times, schools have policies that help prevent cyber bullying and stalking but I do not find them effective because a parent can pull their child (the one who does the stalking or bullying) and move them to another school. There is only so much that a state or federal law can help to prosecute children for bullying or

One component is the purpose statement. The purpose statement includes how bullying has on learning and different other impacts within the school. The purpose statement also has to state that any type of bullying is not acceptable in school and that it will be taken very seriously by everyone including families, the school staff and the students of the school (StopBullying.com, 2014).

Another component is to have a statement of scope (StopBullying.com, 2014). The scope helps to cover the student’s conduct while at school and at their events. There has to be another component that helps to understand what the prohibited conduct is. There has to be a statement in the policy that bullying is not based on characteristics of students (StopBullying.com, 2014). There also needs to be LEA policies within the policy that has the definitions of bullying that are in the state law. Then lastly, there should be what the school will do with the child after there has been found instances of bullying.

Stalking Laws in Federal and