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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Teenager banned from Facebook for one year in Canada


A Canadian 12 years schoolgirl has been sentenced to one year ban Facebook and 50 hours of community service for uttering threats against two friends on this social network.
A Canadian judge has banned a schoolgirl 12 years of Manitoba go on Facebook for a year after she made ​​threats against two friends on this social network, reported local media Tuesday. The girl had said she wanted to "strangle" the two girls in question, aged 13 years.The schoolgirl was sentenced to one year of probation and 50 hours of community service, that is to say, general interest newspaper reported his city, the Brandon Sun, on its website. These measures were demanded by the prosecution, while the defense had argued that Facebook was "essential" in the lives of young people and we should not deprive him. "Personally, I think she does not have Facebook," his mother said in court.Facebook prohibits children under 13 yearsThe teenager pleaded guilty to threats against two comrades who were her friends until her boyfriend "wrong" with one of them. "You do not know how I want to strangle you, girls! Wait a minute. Your time will come!" She wrote. The mother of two girls under alerted police. In fact, the author of the threats had been charged with assault in the past, but had received a suspended sentence.The defense should his "tough personality" to the fact that she herself had been bullied in the past. Regulation of Facebook makes the network accessible only to users aged 13 years. But it is easy to circumvent this rule by giving incorrect information about her age.