This made her take her own life, which shouldn't have happened but only happened because these other teenagers thought it was necessary to bully her. Another example of a child who took her own life too early due to cyber bullying was 12-year-old Kennis Cady in East Rochester. In the article written by Justin Murphy he said that: "After Kennis' death, however, four of his classmates quickly identified the two girls as having targeted Kennis... The classmates said they had thrown gave Kennis dirty looks, mocked her in gym class, and uninvited her to a party, and claimed they were the ones behind the lesbian rumors and harmful activity on Instagram.” (Murphy) Kennis wasn't even a teenager and was still very young and had yet to overcome not only issues with traditional bullying but also with cyber bullying. In the article his father said, “At that point, for the first time , I really saw that there was something bothering her, different from normal childhood things," Dan Cady said, "She started crying and said she was sad, and I said, 'Why are you sad ?" and she said, "I don't know." Michaela and I talked that night about getting her help. (Murphy) Both Kennis Cady and Phoebe Prince felt the devastating effects of cyber bullying which physically led them to take their own lives. This is something no teenager should ever have to do and it's sad that someone pushed them to a certain point where they couldn't bear to live anymore and this was their only option. In the article “Media Violence” by Scott Meech, he explains that cyberbullying is worse than traditional bullying. Meech states