'Online safety for our children and young people needs to be a prerequisite, not an afterthought.'
Prince William says online safety for young people should be "a prerequisite, not an afterthought" afterA coroner concluded that the teenager from London died from an act of self-harm while suffering depression and the negative effects of online content.The prince said: "No parent should ever have to endure what Ian Russell and his family have been through."
Molly took her own life in 2017, and coroner Andrew Walker said the images of self-harm and suicide she viewed online "shouldn't have been available for a child to see". However, Molly had become depressed, something common in children of this age, the coroner said. The inquest was told her condition worsened into a depressive illness."She died from an act of self-harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content."
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