School Girls start huge Police search by creating a fake facebook suicide victim

This is my second article summary for ICT class, it's about how facebook hoxes can get out of hand.

Resource site:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361693/Jaydon-Rothwell-fake-Facebook-suicide-Schoolgirls-triggered-police-search-questioned.html

Summery:
This article appeared in the 'Daily Mail' on March 1st 2011. Two 15 year old girls created a fake profile for 'Jaydon Rothwell', then made a tribute page declaring he had killed himself. The page went viral very quickly and shortly the police were receiving calls from concerned locals. This resulted in a massive police search.
Their hoax page stated he died of a drink and drug overdose, (vodka mixed with mephedrone) which caught a lot of attention with more than 2000 people logging on with hundreds of sympathy comments.
This was brought to the attention of the Lancashire police who sent out patrols to find the boy.
Eventually the police traced the site to the girls computers. The girls confessed, and now wait to see if the officers are going to press charges on grounds of wasting police time, or a public order offense.
The girls stated they originally made the facebook page to befriend one of their friends, and talk to her as 'Jaydon'. The girls then took it a step further declaring his death- their friend was devastated to hear he had 'died'.
News of the 'death' then spread throughout Blackburn with well-wishers - all of who were strangers - posting messages of condolence on the site.
Not only were the police getting phone calls, but officers on the street were being stopped and questioned about the boy, as well and phone calls the the local coroner.
The true identity of the person the girls claimed was 'Jaydon Rothwell' in the Facebook profile picture was not known.


Opinions:
In my opinion this is a case which holds more wrongs then just the obvious.
Not only did the girls pretend to be someone else on facebook , but they did this to trick another girl into building a relationship with 'him' and then pretended he died. The girls were doing this at the other girls expense, this alone is a case of cyberbullying and should be taken very seriously.
I don't however believe they knew how public the profile would get. I think this is a perfect example of how parents should be monitoring their children's use of the internet.
I think the girls should have to publicly apologise for any harm caused and be banned from using social networks in future.