Sick trolls tell girl to kill herself WEBSITE IN NEW STORM

TARGET: 12-year-old Kierah Gowers with her mum Kerry A GIRL of 12 threatened to take her own life after internet trolls urged her to kill herself.

Kierah Gowers was plagued by anonymous internet bullies after signing up to controversial social networking site Ask.fm a year ago.

One spiteful message said: “If you don’t kill yourself now I will do it for you ... kill you, your family and everyone that you love.”

by MARC WALKER they have made her life a hell to the point where she threatened to kill herself. Nobody should have access to the site – it should be shut down.

“You shouldn’t give kids a tool like this where they can threaten to kill someone’sfamilyandtellthemtoslash their wrists and drink bleach.”

DevastatedKierah,ofBlackpool,said: “I felt like I wanted to hurt myself. I felt like someone out there wanted me not to be here, so I would make it happen.” She has now closed her Ask.fm page. The Latvia-based website, which is popular with teenagers, allows users to post messages anonymously.

It has been linked to the recent suicidesoffourteenagerswhoallreceived threatening messages on Ask.fm.

They include Joshua Unsworth, 15, from Preston, who died in April and Hannah Smith, 14, from Lutterworth Leics, a month ago. Both youngsters were found hanged.