A judge has ordered a Mississippi woman who says her daughter was bullied to death to shut down her social media accounts, as a small-town tragedy balloons into an online drama with millions of onlookers.
Heather Wyatt attributed her daughter’s death to bullying, both online and offline, at the hands of schoolmates in Ocean Springs, Miss., near Biloxi.
The saga is playing out online before an audience that reaches far beyond the 20,000 residents of Ocean Springs, illustrating how TikTok can put a national spotlight on a local tragedy in ways that complicate the lives of those involved.
On July 1, a judge in Jackson County Chancery Court granted an emergency injunction requiring Wyatt to temporarily shut down her TikTok, Facebook and other social media accounts “to protect the minor children in this case.” The order was leaked and circulated widely online despite the court ordering all records sealed, as earlier reported by the Biloxi Sun-Herald.
In one particularly emotional video, Wyatt showed herself stumbling on her daughter’s suicide notes to members of the family months after her death.
He added that the accusations of bullying by his clients are “patently false” but have been “elevated to such a grand scale based on Heather Wyatt’s number of followers.”
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A judge has ordered a Mississippi woman who says her daughter was bullied to death to shut down her social media accounts, as a small-town tragedy balloons into an online drama with millions of onlookers.
Heather Wyatt attributed her daughter’s death to bullying, both online and offline, at the hands of schoolmates in Ocean Springs, Miss., near Biloxi.
The saga is playing out online before an audience that reaches far beyond the 20,000 residents of Ocean Springs, illustrating how TikTok can put a national spotlight on a local tragedy in ways that complicate the lives of those involved.
On July 1, a judge in Jackson County Chancery Court granted an emergency injunction requiring Wyatt to temporarily shut down her TikTok, Facebook and other social media accounts “to protect the minor children in this case.” The order was leaked and circulated widely online despite the court ordering all records sealed, as earlier reported by the Biloxi Sun-Herald.
In one particularly emotional video, Wyatt showed herself stumbling on her daughter’s suicide notes to members of the family months after her death.
He added that the accusations of bullying by his clients are “patently false” but have been “elevated to such a grand scale based on Heather Wyatt’s number of followers.”
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