In 2010 cyberbullying and the related offense, cyberstalking, became crimes in Louisiana as the state legislature enacted these statutes in response to the growing number of suicides related to cyberbullying across the country. La. R.S. 14:40.7 – Cyberbullying, in part, reads as follows:
A. Cyberbullying is the transmission of any electronic textual, visual, written, or oral communication with the malicious and willful intent to coerce, abuse, torment, or intimidate a person under the age of eighteen…
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