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Internet police avert girl’s suicide plans
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Thursday, 26 July 2007

An 11-year-old schoolgirl who told Internet chat-room visitors that she was planning to kill herself was traced by Attica electronic crime squad officers who informed her parents, it was revealed yesterday.

Working on tipoffs, police traced the messages to the girl’s home and informed her parents that the girl had expressed her intention to commit suicide, citing personal problems. The parents said they had not been aware that their daughter was unhappy.

Full report: ekathimerini.com

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Megan over at Imaginif said:

  This is good to hear. Even though many teenagers use talk of suicide as an attention gaining strategy, the rates of completed youth suicides are too high to ignore ANY suicidal ideation.

In our Safety Talk forum, we make it clear that any talk of suicide plans will be immediately handed to the most appropriate authority.
2007-07-26 12:17:11 | url

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