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Charging the girls and that he failed to focus on all the other warning signs that rebecca was in trouble. for example, in her written chir journal she talks about suicide. i go to bed every night hoping it will be the last time. also, people don't know how it feels to be hated by everyone that used to be so close. online, rebecca posted the results of a depression test. while it's unclear if she took the test herself, it concludes, you're having suicidal thoughts. this is a serious warning sign and you must seek help quickly. there is also an instagram image that reads, sometimes i just want ...

Reason this is a third-degree felony as opposed to a misdemeanor is because our victim, rebecca, was only 12 years of age. >> while the guilt of the two alleged tormenters is for the court to decide, there is one fact that cannot be ignored -- rebecca ann was just 12 years old. and while the rates of cyberbullying are tough to track, suicide rates are not. suicide is the second leading cause of death for young people ages 10 to 24, and each day in our country there's an average of 5,400 suicide attempts by young people grades seven to 12. what is worse is that according to the authorities, the...

We there's no computer in her room. the only other thing she could have used was my cell phone. my cell phone is always with me. >> reporter: how careful were you to know where your daughter was? >> i always check her facebook. i know her password, you know. she never once, you know, bullied this girl online. >> reporter: but the bullying may have gone beyond facebook. other social media sites including twitter, instagram, ask fm and kick have all been cited by sedwick's family. you don't know what your daughter's activities were on those sites, if any? >> i never come across those websites th...

And then i guess somewhere along the lines it developed into that askfm which i had never even heard of. >> that's the thing. there are so many social media sites that parents just don't know about. we think facebook's the only one but there's all these other new ones constantly popping up. did the bullying continue after her death? >> yes. pages started popping up on facebook and instagram, as a matter of fact. saying that she deserved to die. they were glad she was dead. there was a girl from the old school, where she was getting bullied, that had posted on her facebook that she was glad tha...

A lot of parents want to control everything their child does online, right? >> the sheriff said it's a really important message. a lot of times it's the cell phones they're looking at, not necessarily the laptops or where you have your blocking software, but the apps on the phone are so important. the sheriff said they're so important that parents enact controls on those, too. things like ask.fm, that app, or kick. both of those, she was on both of those apps and her mother said, her mother told the sheriff, when she saw her that night before she went to bed, she was in bed on her phone. >> ce...