Case study
 
At the beginning of the year, Tera moved into a new school.  At first, things were great and she was very popular.  She made many new friends. 
 
One day, as Tera arrived at school, other students began to laugh at her as she walked to class.  Some even made remarks about her eating lunch.  Tera was embarrassed and confused so she hurried on to her class. She did not mention this to anyone and thought that it would just go away.    

When Tera arrived at her house, She decided to log on to her facebook account.  She saw one post from a person who she did not know.  There was an embarrassing picture of Tera in the lunchroom eating. Tera realized that this picture was the reason that all the students had been laughing at her when she arrived at school that day.She was so sad and began to cry. She was too shy and embarrassed to tell anyone about the posted photograph.

As the weeks passed, the incidents worsened.  Tera saw more embarrassing and sacarstic posts about her posted by the person.  As she did the first time, she kept it all to herself but lived in fear of being laughed at in school.  One day Tera even received a post with a link to a website.  To her horror, the website was about her and contained many upsetting pictures of her as well as threats and comments aimed at her.  Tera was too humiliated to tell her parents even though her parents encouraged her to talk about her problems.  Her teachers even noticed that she had begun to make excuses to keep away from school.  She had also fallen behind in school and seemed to be very depressed.  Like her parents, Tera’s teachers did not have a clue to what was going on.