Thursday, Jessi Slaughter appeared on Good Morning America with her father to speak out about cyber bullying after videos of her being bullied went viral on YouTube. Jessi Slaughter is the screen name the 11-year-old used, and not her real name, when posting her videos on YouTube. She is a Florida seventh grader who videotaped herself and her father’s response to the bully, and the videos are laced with profanity against her online tormentors.
Slaughter is about to enter psychological counseling for what experts are calling “a stunning case of cyber bullying spinning out of control,” Good Morning America reported.
Florida police are investigating the cyber bullying case.
Slaughter tells her online enemies to back off…or else.
"I'm happy with my life okay? And if you can't, like, realize that and stop hating you know what?" she said. "I'll pop a glock in your mouth and make a brain slushy."
Slaughter now says she was just venting and didn’t intend things to go this far.
"It's just, I had no words running through my mind," she said about her videos. "It was all done live and that was just a way to get out my anger."
"Because you hater-b*****s? You're just, like, jealous of me," she said in the original video. "Stop hating on me. I'm just a normal girl who's perfect in every way and you're just jealous."
Her videos prompted an even angrier response from the bullies which included death threats, and comments that her father has molested his daughter.
Jessi’s father, Gene Leonhardt is in one of the videos himself, attempting to yell at his daughter's tormentors.
"This is from her father. You bunch of lying no good punks," he yells into the webcam. "And I know who it's coming from because I back traced it. And you've been reported to cyber police and the state police."
"As a father, I was just trying to support my daughter and get people to stop hating," said Leonhardt Thursday.
See the Good Morning America video of the story below.
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Comments
YA DUN GOOF'D!
CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!
BACKTRACED
BECAUSE I BACK TRACED IT
Why weren't the suggestive pictures Jessi took of herself mentioned on this report? This is biased. ABC looks only at the wrong the internet caused but not at the improper things that this girl said and posted.
YOU HATERS DON'T PHASE ME!
YA DUN GOOF'D
I haven't seen the video of the interview, but from the sound of it, she's the "victim" in this whole deal. Which is true. She is a victim of terrible parenting. No 11 year old should be on the internet unattended, especially when they know she's making the sort of videos this girl was making. Shame that no one in the media has the guts to point this out.
The girl who took naked pictures of herself and posted them on the internet and threated to kill the "haters" who told her to stop was bullied? Wait whats that Oh ya Kara.
Oh you left a few things out.
1. Flordia Police have found NO death threats, read the reports you "Journalist" their public
2. three pizzas and two phhone calls were made to her house and their life is destroyed?
3. Her parents let her keep her computer in her bedroom.
4. They particpated in another video saying that their spoiled brats actions are our responsiblitly
5. SHE WAS ON STICK CAME THE NEXT DAY!
Doing guess what? Taking naked pictures of her self. *Facepalm*
These cyberbullys are heros who have started a child services investgation and hopefully find that girl a home with not stupid parents.
i like how it fails to mention that she was webcam showing her boobs off to all these people on the internets. where was her supportful father then?
She needs to flip her pillow to the side that is cold.
She definitely deserved it for taunting them...CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!
BECAUSE I BACK TRACED IT, YA DUN GOOF'D
This is a case of terrible parenting. If this "jessi" was making such horribly disgusting videos in the first place then anyone watching it was most likely just trying to stand for themselves.
It's too bad that her youtube videos were taken down. CPS could use that to get her incarcerated in a mental hospital after those.
Ya DUN GOOF'D XD
This so called "bullying" piece is biased and incomplete. The 11 girl manipulates her parents and proved she can manipulated the producers of GMA into airing a good example of intellectually dishonest and lazy journalism. Makes me ask what other stories is GMA getting wrong.
in my humble opinion, i think that she set herself up for all of the "extreme cyberbullying." I think she was attempting to cyberbully the viewers.
I would not be calling Jessi Slaughter a victim in any way. her parents need to be taken to child protective services because it was completely illogical for her father to make another video
[comment has been removed by the cyber police]
F_cking idiots taking trolls seriously. The guys who made those "death threats" are laughing at the other end. Don't take trolls seriously. The b!tch shouldn't even be on the internet, she's too young to even be on YouTube which has a 13 limit.
11 year olds dont think logically, obviously. all they want is attention. high 5 gma
FUNNYJUNK!
This is sickening, I believe the girl deserved the repercussions of her actions. At some point you have to learn that the real world isn't a parent protected candy land and that what you do can lead you down different paths, whether they be good or bad depends on your actions.
+10 to 4chan
-10 to GMA and everyone feeding into the idea that this girl had no responsibility in the firestorm and is just a "victim"
[cyber police deleted comment] jesica _________
DON'T BE SAYING SUICIDE
CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME! THE CYBER POLICE HAS BEEN NOTIFIED ABOUT YOUR DISTASTE FOR BRAIN SLUSHIES. You can vent all you like, but that includes threatening death? What kind of parents give an 11 year old a webcam anyways? The State of Florida "dun goof'd" if they leave her in this home full of enablers.
*This poster just experienced consequences the likes of which have never been seen before thanks to the tireless efforts of the cyber police. If only he would have believed in the power of "back tracing".*
I love how no mention of parental supervision came in until the end, and then almost as an after thought. I'm not saying getting death threats and all that was acceptable, but the fact is, if these parents had been doing their job and supervising their daughter's net habits and giving her AGE APPROPRIATE devices to use, none of this would have ever happened. You do not deserve to have your house broke into just because you did not lock the door, but you were asking for it and you did nothing to protect yourself. 4chan is not to blame. The cam site is not to blame. The people who tormented her and the parents who have thus far failed to raise their daughter correctly are to blame. Frame the argument correctly, GMA.
You know when I was 11 I had just got the internet... Of course youtube wasn't around... but I knew better than to post pictures of me with my shirt over covering myself... And I knew better than to try and PUSH the cyber bullies. I mean come one... "I'm gonna pop a glock in your head and make a brain slushie?" How stupid can you get? And what is the world coming to? This chick has one of the worst mouth's I've heard... and she's only 11. I blame her parents for not monitoring what she does on the internet... and I'm pretty ashamed of GMA making her look like a victim... if they did their research they would have found a video on youtube of her on stickam after her "breakdown" talking about how she would "do anything for fame" and she was just laughing about it all. I think instead of using the story to show how bad cyber bullying is... use it to show that parents need to know what their younger child is doing on the internet.
My bad.. I meant shirt **up and then just covering myself barely with my hand.
This girl was in no way innocent.
This is Bulls**t she deserved it! so many things played in to this, bad parents, stupid kid, and other multiple things, all in all you should not call out people for a fight and expect them to just back off cyber bullying is bulls**t! sometimes a bully is nothing more then karma some people just deserve what they get.....but then the media ITS THIS BULLS**T RIGHT HERE THAT MAKES US THINKS THE THE "victim" is innocent when they are guilty as f**king hell, long message short it was her fault
>Jessi Slaughter is the screen name the 11-year-old used, and not her real name, when posting her videos on YouTube.
>Jessi’s father, Gene Leonhardt
Anyone want to take a stab at her real name? Sloppy job GMA. And terrible stance on the issues that matter. The girl and parents are not victims, the internet lashed out at them because they deserved it. Do a story on how 11 year-olds should not be posting half naked online and how parents should monitor children's use of the internet. She was in the wrong place, the internet helped her leave.
Victim my bubble butt!!! She brought on and deserved everything she got! The "death threats" are a natural reaction to extreme stupidity and the glock threat made in her video. No one really means it. The fault is all on her parents and her. For example: if you pinch a cat it will scratch you. Was it the cat's fault? No, it was YOUR fault. The only victim you become is of your own stupidity. Jessi pinched the internet! Her parents enabled her! Fault decided! This is not cyberbulling, this is the the standard cause and effect. The only counseling she needs is to get rid of that additude of hers! Giving her this publicity and positive attention is not helping at all. Someone needs to teach her that his is NOT okay, since her parents obviously do not do such. Drop the police investigation; no one wants to be within a ten foot radius of this vile child, much less hurt her. But a firm smack upside the head wouldn't be too bad.
Here's a thought.... Maybe if the parents would GET OFF THEIR BUTTS AND BE PARENTS, this would not have happened!
Your child who is 11 years old, is logging into and posting to, sites that are marked "For Adults Only". Who is REALLY to blame here?!
If you can't control the little monster, then don't let her play on the computer! And if you go to "Adult Only" websites underage, don't expect to be treated with "kid gloves".... It's like taking your child to a bar and demanding that no one use foul language or tell a dirty joke! The kid shouldn't BE THERE in the first place!
So it's not cyberbullying when she says that she's gonna put a glock in your mouth and make a brain slushie to her haters? Or that they should get aids and die? It's obvious that this girl has been on an emotional roller coaster and it's also obvious that the blame for that resides on her parents. You just don't allow your 11 yr. old daughter to say such things, let alone on youtube!
The worst part is that they all think that they are the victims here. What an awful lesson to be teaching an already screwed up little girl. There are consequences for your actions and they don't include "backtracing" people making fun of your idiocy.
So you guys understand how to argue correctly with this Jessi Slaughter bull, she was not bullied. I think I already explained what the /b/ was, along with anonymous, 4chan, etc. Someone posted her video talking stuff, so they hacked her youtube and stuff and got her information and spammed her on stickam.
Yes she said some dumb things, bottom line she is 11. You cannot take anything an 11 year old girl says seriously, especially one with parents who don't care and especially one who is starved for attention. Death threats and insanely mean comments from adults, is uncalled for.
I totally agree no 11 year old should be on the internet unattended. I just think the whole thing in general is horrible. I mean look at the girl phoebe prince from Ireland. She hung herself. I honestly think all bullying cases should be a crime in EVERY state! We really need to stop this. I hate the fact that people think they are soooooo superior to the world and they can "show it off" and show off their "strength" by picking on others>:(
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