14 DAY TRIAL // Christine Claveau is a concerned mom that saw an offensive post on one of Amanda Todd's memorial pages. She decided to do something about it, but instead of going to the police, she tracked down the man behind the comment.
According to CBC Canada, the man, whose identity has not been revealed, is one of many who have decided to tarnish Todd's memory, so little time after the 15-year-old took her own life, due to repeated incidents of bullying.
"It's about time this bitch died," his comment read.
Claveau followed up on the man's identity. She used social media to track him down, and found out he worked at retail store Mr. Big and Tall, in Toronto.
Representatives of Grafton-Fraser Inc., the company that operates Mr. Big and Tall, took immediate action to dismiss the man.
"We are deeply saddened by the loss of Amanda Todd. [...] I will tell you that the individual in question is no longer employed with our company," Dave McGregor, president and CEO of Grafton-Fraser Inc., said in a press statement.
Claveau is part of a group of moms that have decided to expose cyber-bullies. She has received a lot of negative comments through social media, after taking action for the man's dismissal.
"You can't please everybody, so I'm getting a lot of people saying I was the bully in the matter, or it wasn't right to contact his employer. So I'm getting a little bit of negative backlash."
However, she is determined to keep fighting "Internet trolls," that post hateful statements protected by the anonymity of the Internet, just to elicit a response.
"But I just think that even having him reprimanded or having the embarrassment of his company knowing what he did is what I was aiming for, just to say … you know what you do in your pastime can affect who you are at work and your personal life too," Claveau says.