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[humanz.]

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Tearful Heidi Crowter has only just been told about the sexual and derogatory comments being made about an innocent picture of her online.

The 16-year-old has been the target of several other sick pages on Facebook bearing her image.

The photos of Heidi, from Coventry, as a toddler had been stolen from a website for a parents’ support group.

Horrified mum Liz and husband Steve have been bombarding Facebook to take down the sites and so far only one has been removed.

Liz, 45, said the internet trolls behind the posts had been using images of her daughter for months and Facebook had made no direct contact with her to resolve the issue.

Heidi’s pictures were taken from a local support group website, which Liz ran for about five years.

She said pages carrying Heidi’s image are still active despite Liz reporting the problem TWO WEEKS ago.

She said: “It’s almost like Faceless rather than Facebook, we have been repeatedly trying to take these distressing sites down and I have not once had a direct response.

“These trolls are cowardly, nasty people who should be punished for the damage they are doing to people with their comments.

“They have no right to take Heidi’s image and use it alongside these cruel sites. If you look at the lad who made those comments about Fabrice Muamba online, he was taken to court.

“Heidi has told me she is very upset by the sites and she turns her head away when we have them on the computer screen.”

full story @ sun

[TheLegendOfMart]

Crying about it in the papers has only made things worse, Reddit has made memes out of her and her mother now.

[humanz.]

TheLegendOfMart, on 27 April 2012 - 15:36, said:

Crying about it in the papers has only made things worse, Reddit has made memes out of her and her mother now.

Got any of her mother?

[c3ntury]

All memes die out quickly usually, they've merely made it worse for themselves.

[humanz.]

for the sh*ts and giggless

[+simrat]

LOL @ people thinking Reddit or tumblr or 9fags started this meme. 4chan made this meme, and people are laughing on 4chan about this, how no one is blaming them.

[The Laughing Man]

Congrats, you've brought attention to yourselves for more harm to be done.

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The Laughing Man, on 27 April 2012 - 16:16, said:

Congrats, you've brought attention to yourselves for more harm to be done.

This. People dint even knew who that girl was, and the meme was pretty old, and now everyone knows her name and things will get even worse for her.

[giantpotato]

Am I the only one that found this meme to be offensive from the beginning? Even if originally the meme was not directed toward this girl in particular, is it any better that it's making fun of all people with down's syndrome? The difference between this meme and others is that you're born with down's; You can choose to be a scumbag steve, or socially awkward penguin, you don't choose to have down's syndrome.

[Xilo]

That image macro has been around for years...

[+Lovell]

giantpotato, on 27 April 2012 - 16:47, said:

Am I the only one that found this meme to be offensive from the beginning? Even if originally the meme was not directed toward this girl in particular, is it any better that it's making fun of all people with down's syndrome? The difference between this meme and others is that you're born with down's; You can choose to be a scumbag steve, or socially awkward penguin, you don't choose to have down's syndrome.

Welcome to the internet were idiots thrive from the anonymity and lack of responsibility for their actions.

[+simrat]

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Am I the only one that found this meme to be offensive from the beginning? Even if originally the meme was not directed toward this girl in particular, is it any better that it's making fun of all people with down's syndrome? The difference between this meme and others is that you're born with down's; You can choose to be a scumbag steve, or socially awkward penguin, you don't choose to have down's syndrome.

Welcome to the internet, im not saying it OK to make fun of physically disabled people, but those guys even laugh on gore.

[+exotoxic]

giantpotato, on 27 April 2012 - 16:47, said:

Am I the only one that found this meme to be offensive from the beginning? Even if originally the meme was not directed toward this girl in particular, is it any better that it's making fun of all people with down's syndrome? The difference between this meme and others is that you're born with down's; You can choose to be a scumbag steve, or socially awkward penguin, you don't choose to have down's syndrome.

anti descrimination works both ways (see the person not the disability). If it was some random "normal" person would it make it ok??

[Ently]

Whilst I honestly feel sorry for people with disabilities. Sometimes I see some of those pictures and laugh... Just being honest

[+articuno1au]

You'd think people would have learnt by now >.>

I'm amazed that they think it's Facebook's problem to contact them about the issue D: