Brave Terri Calvesbert hits out against online trolls after she is targeted on social media.
Terri Calvesbert, now 19, was just 18 months old when she was horrifically burned in a fire at her Ipswich home in 1998.
in recent weeks Terri, now based in Sudbury, has been targeted by “trolls” on social media – an account followed by 10,000 people shared a photograph of her earlier this month with the caption “everyone is ashamed of me because I am deformed”.
The post asks users to “share” if they are “not ashamed” of Terri, but in among the 2,200 comments several of the teenager’s friends and acquaintances have branded it “sick”. Many suggest it should be removed.
Despite attempts to have the sick post and page removed Facebook continually say it does not go against their community guidelines.
Now the 19-year-old and her friends Michelle Wright and Gavin Jaques are kicking off a new social media campaign against cyber-bullying – and urging Facebook to do more to remove such posts.
“It’s just awful and when I saw the post it really upset me,” said Terri.
Visit the group’s campaign page at facebook.com/campaign-to-stop-cyber-bullying-802317289905758/
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