A desperate mother has been forced to change her daughter’s school after cyberbullies who set up ‘hate’ TikTok accounts using her name and photos turned her classmates against her. Shelley Dale, 46, from Essex, feared for daughter Talia’s life after the now 13-year-old received months of abuse from school friends who were convinced she had created the profiles to pick on another girl. Talia claimed she was sent abusive messages on TikTok, including being called an ‘ugly b***h’ and telling her to ‘kill herself’, after the fake accounts – made to look as though the Year 7 student had set them up – called a classmate ‘a pig’, ‘fat’, ‘ugly’ and a ‘s**t’. Despite Talia protesting her innocence, and complaining to TikTok, she claimed the social media site refused to remove the profiles, leading to Shelley reporting it to the school and the police – who called it ‘the worst case of online bullying they had seen’. But they later dropped the investigation, and Shelley claims police told her that TikTok had refused to give out any personal information on who had set up the fake profiles, because they said it was against the account holder’s human rights. A TikTok… Read full this story
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