14 Year Old Girl Kills Herself After Being Bullied On Popular Site

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Website bosses claim the teenager who killed herself after being bullied online sent most of the vile abuse to herself.

Hannah Smith, 14, hanged herself in her bedroom ten days ago after being targeted by trolls on Ask.fm.

But the social networking site insists that she set up most of the anonymous identities used to bombard her own page, it has been reported.

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A source at the firm based in Riga, Latvia, said: ‘With the Hannah case, the company have looked at every identity – the [computer] IP addresses are trackable. She posted the anonymous things herself.’

Last night Hannah’s father David, 45, reacted with anger to the allegation.

‘Hannah was a 14-year-old girl who was being bullied and she took her own life,’ he said. ‘Ask.fm is trying to cover its own back by discrediting Hannah. It’s disgusting.’

The firm claims that up to 98 per cent of the messages sent to Hannah came from the same IP address as her own computer. Only four posts were sent from a different machine, it has been reported.

Ask.fm allows users to ask questions or invite them from other members but they can remain anonymous, allowing trolls to pick out victims.
Mr Smith, a lorry driver from  Lutterworth, Leicestershire, added that the issue was not if Hannah had sent any of the messages.

‘She was bullied online,’ he said. ‘Whether she wrote some of it herself doesn’t make any difference.

‘A 14-year-old girl has taken her own life because she was being bullied on the internet.

‘If Hannah did do some of it herself, then it just shows how desperate she was.’

 Mr Smith said Ask.fm should be working to stop the abuse instead of deflecting blame for Hannah’s death.
‘Ask.fm has information to say that Hannah was being bullied but they have not passed on that  information,’ he said. ‘They are  trying to discredit a 14-year-old girl who has committed suicide.

‘They have not once been in touch with me. Hannah has touched a lot of hearts. But they are trying to  discredit her because this company was making millions.’

 Partners, from left: Marks Terebins, Oskars Liepiøö, Ilja Terebins of the Ask.fm website which has offered to name Hannah Smith's tormentors.  Marks Terebins, Oskars Liepiøö, Ilja Terebins, who founded Ask.fm, An internal investigation is said to have revealed that 98 per cent of the messages were sent from a computer with the same IP address as Hannah's