Samantha Kelly Still Being Tormented on Facebook

She's the 14-year-old girl who took her own life after claiming she was raped by a fellow classmate. After coming forward with the allegation, Samantha Kelly was the target of bullying at her school and, ultimately, it drove her to suicide. Sadly, even in death, bullies are still tormenting her.

The Facebook page to honor Kelly's life is being bombarded with hateful messages and images.

FOX 2 did not want to share the images with our audience because they are extremely offensive, and the metro Detroiters who did see them were disgusted.

"That's terrible. I don't know why anybody would do something like that. It totally is disrespectful, and I surely wouldn't want to see my daughter that way or have her remembered that way," said one person.

"You can't be that rude to someone," said another. "They were a person, and they're family's going to be really affected by this."

"I can't believe that somebody could actually do that. That just shows you the caliber of the people," a third said.

All of these people are parents, who say the bullying has to stop at home. Yes, the school has a responsibility, but it has to start with moms, dads and guardians. They have to take the lead.

FOX 2's Andrea Isom asked a former FBI agent whether anyone can be prosecuted for these actions. He said, unfortunately, no. It is horrible, immoral and wrong on so many levels, but they did not make a direct threat, so it is not illegal.

Isom also talked to state Senator Glenn Anderson.

"I think it's one more name just like Matt Epling up in East Lansing that my bill is named after. It's one more child that we did not have to lose," he said.

Isom asked Anderson if his bill were to pass would it make bullying and cyber bullying a crime. He replied, "It would require them to take action. It's not a crime, but it would require the school district to have a course of action in place and not only just to go after the bully. We're talking about addressing the problem that the bully has themselves. There's problems within the child that bullies other kids, and there's a reason for that. We need to address that because those kids will wind up in our court system. They'll probably wind up in our jails."

"It's very sad that we can't come together as a state and develop a policy that would address bullying across the state whether it's in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Traverse City or Muskegon. There needs to be a policy in place to protect these kids," he added.

Anderson says his bill is currently in limbo, that it's in committee, and he's hoping people realize they have to write and call their legislator to let him or her know how important this is to them and that they want change now.

He also said that people need to remember when you're bullied it's something you will never forget. We talked to a woman who is 62 years old, and she will never forget the sixth grade.

"They called me all kinds of names. I'd be walking down the hall. They'd knock my books out of my hand. They knew I didn't know my way around the neighborhood, so they'd tell me I'm going to fight you tonight at such and such, a show or something. I didn't know where to go, so I never showed up," said Sheryl Genaw. "The next day it was worse and it got worse."

"It just hurts. You dread going to school. You dread leaving your bedroom. You have no friends to go after school with, so you go to school, you go home to your room," she added. "I think bullies are afraid of (themselves) to be honest with you. I really do. Now I can say that, but I'll tell you it wasn't until I hit high school that I got really strong about it."

Genaw said it was something that she kept inside for a very long time. Her kids didn't even know about it until now.