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Malicious communication through the use of social networking represents a new and unfortunate phenomenon that shows how technology can be abused as well. However, a recent investigation concerning an internet troll shows that offenders cannot hide behind their computer screens.
An internet troll, Sean Duffy, 25 who posted videos and messages from time to time mocking the deaths of teenagers, has been jailed. He targeted Facebook tribute pages made after the teenager’s death and posted videos on YouTube taunting the dead and their families. Among his victims, one of the recent was Natasha MacBryde, 15, who died instantly when hit by a passenger train near her home in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Just a day after Natasha’s death in February, Duffy tried to mock the incident by posting comments including "I fell asleep on the track lolz" on the Facebook tribute page created by her brother James, 17. His final target was Jordan Cooper, 14, from Washington, Newcastle upon Tyne, who was stabbed to death.
Duffy is unemployed and does not know any of his victims, pleaded guilty to two counts of sending malicious communications relating to Natasha. He had also been asked for three other cases of posting offensive messages on the internet to be taken into account when he appeared before magistrates in Reading, Berkshire. The chair of the bench, Paul Warren, told for jailing him for 18 weeks, as he is guilty of causing untold distress to already grieving friends and family of the victims.
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