1st Cyberbullying Awareness Day on P.E.I. honours youth who died by suicide [Video]

P.E.I. marked its first Cyberbullying Awareness Day on Thursday, a way to honour a teenager who died by suicide after he became the victim of sextortion.   

April 25 marked the one-year anniversary of the death of 17-year-old Harry Burke, who was from the Souris area. 

Robin Croucher, MLA for Souris-Elmira, proposed the awareness day through a private member’s bill that passed unanimously in the P.E.I. Legislature in March. 

“We need to bring the spotlight to [cyberbullying] so that we can hopefully prevent this from happening in the future,” Croucher said Thursday.

Croucher is a good friend of Burke’s family and said his death highlights the risks of cyberbullying and sextortion. 

“Even though I have three children — [ages] 17, 19 and 21 — I didn’t …