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51 Howard L.J. 773 (2007-2008)
The New Playground Bullies of Cyberspace: Online Peer Sexual Harassment

handle is hein.journals/howlj51 and id is 787 raw text is: COMMENT The New Playground Bullies of Cyberspace: Online Peer Sexual Harassment STACY M. CHAFFIN* INTRODUCTION Most of us remember the bullies of our school-aged days-the kids that would steal our lunch money or scare us with a threat of a knuckle-sandwich. I remember getting chased around the play- ground and teased because I would rather read a book than play kickball. But I also remember being able to run to my house, where my parents thought I was especially cool for preferring books to kickball. But today, kids are not able to escape the schoolyard bullies by running to the comfort of their own homes. Now, the bullies follow them home and start the real harassment online. A new wave of bul- lies-cyberbullies-have found their niche in the playgrounds of cyberspace. As millions of adolescents frequent cyberspace, their sto- ries of cyberbullying are all too common.' * J.D. Candidate, Howard University School of Law, 2008. Executive Notes & Com- ments Editor, HOWARD LAW JOURNAL. B.A., 2005, magna cum laude, Psychology and English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I would like to express my most sincere thanks to my par- ents, Lee and Susan Chaffin, for their endless encouragement, undying support, and unwavering love; to Suzanne Sable who still thinks I can do any and everything imaginable; and especially Professor Andrew E. Taslitz who has guided me through this process and whose footsteps I can only hope to follow. 1. The Pew Internet and American Life Project maintains that as many as seventeen mil- lion children between twelve and seventeen go online. Amanda Lenhart, Lee Rainie & Oliver Lewis, Teenage Life Online: The Rise of the Instant-Message Generation and the Internet's Impact on Friendships and Family Relations 3 (2001), http://www.pewlnternet.org/pdfs/PIP_TeensRe- port.pdf. 2008 Vol. 51 No. 3

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