Snapchat bullies warning as girl, 12, may have taken own life – Stoke-on-Trent Live

Stoke-on-Trent Live Icon News UK & World News The devastated family of Amelia Bath are raising awareness around cyber bullying A 12-year-old girl is feared to have taken her own life after being targeted by bullies on Snapchat. Schoolgirl Amelia Bath was found dead in her bedroom by her mother Marie when she went to wake her up for school on March 6, and had her world ‘turned upside down’. According to the girl’s family, she had spent the previous evening laughing at her grandparents over fish and chips, and nobody had suspected that anything was wrong. Police attended the home and took Amelia’s phone and iPad, where Snapchat messages found suggested she was being bullied online, her uncle Kris Marsh said. Police are not treating the death as suspicious. Kris, 42, said: “It was an absolute massive shock to everybody. It was totally out of the blue. I don’t think you ever recover from something like this. “Marie her mum had got up that morning as usual, gone to wake her up for school and then found Amelia in her bedroom. Her world had just been completely turned upside down. Hours before they were all around their grandparents house
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