The Threats of Cyber Bully

The kind of threat:

• The communication uses rude language
• The communication insults your child directly (“You are fat!”)
• The communication threatens your child indistinctly (“I’m going to get you!”)
• The communication threatens your child with bodily harm. (“I’m going to punch you up!”)
• There is a general serious threat. (“There is a bomb in the school!” or “Don’t take the school bus today!”)
• The communication threatens your child with serious bodily harm or death (“I am going to break your arms!” or “I am going to kill you!”)

The frequency of the threats:

• It is a one-time communication
• The communication is repeated in the in different or same ways
• The communications are increasing from time to time
• Third-parties are suddenly joining in and communications are now being received from (what appears to be) additional people