Lauryn Licari’s world turned into a living nightmare when she was relentlessly bullied over text for two years in Beal City, Michigan.
The anonymous bully mocked the teenager’s appearance, demanded she break up with her then-boyfriend Owen McKenny, and even encouraged ideas about self-harm.
When the culprit was finally caught, it wasn’t an enemy, classmate or stranger who was put behind bars. It was her own mother.
Lauryn Licari’s world turned into a living nightmare when she was relentlessly cyberbullied for two years
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Lauryn and Owen were high school sweethearts, who struck up a bond when they first met in the 7th grade.
“They were like a high school couple from a movie,” Owen’s mother Jill McKen