Today I was reading about how girls as young as 11, 12 and 13 are persecuted on Facebook and Instagram etc to perform sexual acts.
They may be encouraged to self harm on camera, they are threatened if they don't do what they are told and they are slagged off if they dont obey.
They can be called slut,s slags and whores. The perpetrators of such horrible abuse can be the boy next door, or the classmate in school or the chap she thinks has been her friend, perhaps someone she played with when she was younger.
We now know that there is a link between the onset of eating disorders and this dreadful behaviour from which they can't escape.
I've already written more about this on our BRAND NEW WEBSITE (hurray!) Please check out what I have said at www.eating-disorders.org.uk - the blog links are on our home page.
Dignity and self respect carry a young woman through the tumult of adolescence and protect her from substance abuse and eating distress. How are we going to protect our children from this filth?
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