Dagmara
Przybysz, 16, originally from Poland, had complained about suffering from
racism at school on the Ask.fm site two years ago.
Police and
paramedics were called to Pool Academy in Pool, Redruth, Cornwall, on Tuesday
at 2.15pm where the student was pronounced dead at the scene.
Zelma
Hill, the school principal, said she was devastated by the news."The loss
of Dagmara is heart-breaking. We are supporting students, staff and their
families through this terrible time," she said.
She had
used the Ask.fm site two years ago and when asked what problems she had at school, Dagmara had replied: "racism" and added that it makes her sad when friends say
things behind her back.
Her
friends posted tributes on social media criticising bullies.
One wrote:
"It is so sad what people do to make people do this stuff."
Last year
social networking site Ask.fm created a safety advisory board after it was
linked with cyberbullying and teen suicides, after a number of users took their
lives after receiving abusive anonymous messages.
The
Latvian-based site has been criticised over its policy of allowing users to ask
each other anonymised questions
In 2013
14-year-old Hannah Smith from Leicestershire committed suicide after receiving
a series of messages telling her her to “drink bleach”, “go get cancer” and “go
die”. The site later claimed it appeared the teenager had sent the messages to
herself.
Ciara
Pugsley, 15, was also found dead in woodland near her home in Ireland in 2013,
after becoming the target of abusive messages on the Ask.fm website.
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