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    BULLIED TO DEATH

    Feb 11, 2022 4 minutes
    COMPILED BY DENNIS CAVERNELIS

    LIKE many tweens, she was hooked on social media and her cellphone beeped and buzzed with notifications almost around the clock.

    Things got so bad Selena Rodriguez’s mother would confiscate her devices yet it didn’t help much – the 11-year-old would simply run away from home so she could log in to her accounts elsewhere.

    Mom Tammy was consumed with worry about her daughter’s addiction – but things were much worse than she suspected.

    Selena was being hounded by strangers on Instagram and Snapchat to send them sexually explicit images and when she eventually relented and sent pictures on Snapchat, they were leaked and shared among her schoolmates.

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