PARENTS are concerned that a popular app encourages cyberbullying after local teenagers and children were told by online bullies to commit suicide and were mocked for their appearance.

Sarahah, which claims on its website to allow users to “get honest feedback from your coworkers and friends” enables people to send anonymous comments to others.

One local mum is at her wits’ end after cowards told her 12-year-old daughter to kill herself.

The worried parent, whose little girl goes to a Stevenston school, told the Herald: “My daughter has been subject to some horrible things.

“It said things like ‘go slit your wrists, nobody likes you’. I was absolutely shocked.

“She’s really upset about it. It’s not good.

“They’re telling her to ‘go kill yourself, go and slit your wrists’, and they’re slagging her clothes and make-up. It’s making her conscious of herself. You shouldn’t care about how you look at that age.

“I’ve spoken to other parents and their kids are using it as well. I can’t believe that wee lassies – if it is even wee lassies because it could be anyone – are telling a young girl to ‘go and kill yourself’.

“Because it’s anonymous the police can’t do anything, they’re stuck. I’ve tried everything [to contact the app] but I can’t get anywhere.

“It’s definitely been a horrible time.

“I just hope other parents are aware of how horrible social media can be.”

Another horrified mum, living in the Three Towns, told the Herald: “I didn’t know my 13-year-old daughter was using it until she came to me after being told to ‘tan her wrists’.

“These comments are all anonymous – that’s the main part of this forum.

“Kids can say whatever they like to others and it’s very malicious.

“Another mother I have been contacting about the same says her daughter has been called a slag etc.

“I need other parents to be aware that their kids are either getting bullied or some are doing bullying through this forum.”

The Herald tried to contact Sarahah for comment but we received no reply.

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