Principles for 14-year-olds should be possible

A 16-year-old bullyed the 13-year-old Celine. Then she killed herself. The perpetrator just laughed about it. With the Berikon case, everything comes up again with Celine’s mother.

Before that, she had become the victim of cyberbullying. She was in love with a 14-year-old who abused her feelings. He put her under pressure to send him revealing photos of himself. She did it.

He forwarded the pictures of his jealous ex-girlfriend. This was 16 years old and spread the pictures on Snapchat. Hundreds of young people got the exposure.

On the Baden trip, a folk festival, the dispute shifted from the online world to the street. The 16-year-old verbally attacked Celine and made sayings about the affair in front of a group.

The day after, Celine killed himself. She did not leave a farewell letter.

The perpetrator later had to perform both non -profit work assignments of four days each.

Celine would be 21 years old today. Her parents are committed to more prevention and harder punishments.

On Mother’s Day, Berikon’s homicide happened. What did you go through your head afterwards, Ms. Pfister?

Nadya Pfister: The case triggered a flashback with us because we know how these parents are doing. It really shaked me. And at the same time I am not completely surprised. Dealing with young people has changed; The willingness to use violence has increased.

Do the schools do enough?

They do a lot, but that’s not enough. Celine also changed strikingly at school. She no longer liked to go there, although she wrote top marks. However, the teachers did not contact us.

Youth criminal law relies on protective measures. Principles are only possible from 15 years. In her case, the judiciary punished the perpetrator and the perpetrator with short work assignments.

These punishments are a joke. In our case, the perpetrator worked for four days at the Dietikon youth prosecutor in the office. For this she bought a Deuxpièces and took a photo of herself in front of the laptop. From this she made a social media story and wrote: “Business Look”. This shows that the judiciary cannot impress criminal young people with such punishments.

At its initiative, the federal parliament is currently developing one New criminal offense for cyberbullying.

We are very happy. But as long as tougher punishments are not possible, the new criminal offense will not bring much. In our case, the perpetrator attacked another girl to Celine. This threatened a criminal complaint. The perpetrator replied analogously: « Only do it, but before that I still tear your pussy up. » The sound has tightened. Therefore we have to tighten the answers.

What do you specifically demand?

Principles should be possible from the age of 14. Statistics show that the young people come to puberty earlier and that the perpetrators get younger. They develop faster and have more ideas at younger age – good and evil.

Protection measures and mild punishments can help to steer the development of young people on the right track instead of criminalizing them. Why doesn’t she convince?

As a mommy who lost her daughter, I have a different perspective. In my view, such acts trivialize a few days of non -profit work as a punishment.

You could also have become the mother of a perpetrator. Wouldn’t you want to help your daughter instead of punishing her?

I’ve already asked myself this question x times. But I don’t say that the perpetrators should be locked up for life. I only say: ten days of non -profit work are too little for difficult deeds. My husband received such a punishment when he once stated his Töffli as a teenager. The young people who run cyberbullying or arm themselves with knives have to know that they have to expect consequences.

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