Stalker in the Attic: The Cyberbully Who Spies on 12-Year-Old Girls in Their Home

[Are_grits_groceries]

(This is a long and confounding story. I have no idea what really happened.)

On a Monday afternoon in late March, 12-year-old best friends Melody Coffey and Julia Young sat in Melody's room, mulling the latest message from their tormentor:

wanna play a game ?

The girls recognized the sender's Instagram account as belonging to a girl we'll call Danielle. She and Julia were friends briefly earlier in the year. Since their falling out with Danielle, Melody and Julia had been receiving disturbing threats from her social media accounts.

Let's switch passwords

The oddly punctuated messages had grown more sinister, more perverse. Though Danielle denied they were from her — she suggested her accounts were hacked — the evidence was not in her favor. The attacks referenced the girls' families and their friends from school and even now, above the latest message, was a selfie of Danielle, phone held up to the mirror.

I have a guy who takes photos of you guys . My mom helps me . Don't think I'm weird though . Everyone does it . … I know you guys will like call the cops because you guys are insane , but thats what I find sexy about you guys .

In Melody's room, avoiding yet another day of gossip at school, the girls considered their options. Sometimes, Melody said, it seemed Danielle could hear them talking, as if she were watching them. She'd even convinced her mom to climb up and check the attic once. It was empty.
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Much more:
http://mashable.com/2014/07/13/cyberbullying-stalking-leander-texas/

WTF? smh.....
Just WTF?

[TexasProgresive]

1. If you come across a better wrtten account

Iwould like to read it. This one is in need of some severe editing. I have no clue as to what it means. I have a grand daughter in Leander ISD.

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. Here is a link to a much shorter article:

http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news?fId=258998681&fPath=/news/local/&fDomain=10232

I am not ruling out that one of the people claiming that there is cyberbullying is also causing it. However, whoever is doing this has carried it to extreme levels.

[TexasProgresive]

3. Thank you, that was much better. n/t

[BainsBane]

4. I think it's possible it's a third party

Someone that knows all three girls. It would seem like Danielle's family would know if she had those sort of extensive computer skills.
What this really highlights is owe woefully equipped law enforcement is to deal with these sorts of crimes.

[Sheldon Cooper]

5. I read both of those articles, and I am confounded.

There is obviously a camera somewhere in the house, and/or the cell phones have been hijacked and the hackers are monitoring the household from the phones. The house was swept for bugs, the phones have been replaced, modems and routers as well, and someone is still hacking them? I don't understand how no one seems to be able to get to the bottom of this. It's ominous and creepy.

[redqueen]

6. "Meet the men who spy on women through their webcams

The Remote Administration Tool is the revolver of the Internet's Wild West."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/rat-breeders-meet-the-men-who-spy-on-women-through-their-webcams/

[Sheldon Cooper]

7. That's extra creepy.

Ugh.

[redqueen]

8. It is sick.

It is also very sad that the law has still not caught up with these kinds of crimes.

[snooper2]

9. This has hoax written all over it-

Oh and of course, get what mom does!


Christine Young wrote an influential blog called From Dates to Diapers; she reviewed products on contract with suppliers like Walmart, and meditated on the fun and trials of raising an enormous family. In 2009, Nielsen Online ranked hers among the top 50 mommy blogs in the nation.