SMS dare to commit suicide a growing phenomenon among young Dutch girls

The Cape Times reports on an alaraming trend spreading amongst young Dutch girls: SMS dares to commit suicide.

"The revelation by a local newspaper that the group of 12- to 15-year-olds had been texting each other was a repeated text message on their phones,"Who dares to?", for months earlier this year, has provoked a flood of soul-searching in the Netherlands, a country that is by now inured to reports of internet sexual grooming and blackmail.

... The bizarre network sprang up following the suicide last March of a girl at a school in Enschede, a city in the north-eastern province of Overijssel on the German border."

emily | 8:42 AM | News, Buzz |
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