A nurse is campaigning for tech bosses to be made criminally liable for protecting children from harm online - after her daughter took her own life. Ruth Moss, 51, is campaigning for tougher social media regulations and new legislation which would hold tech bosses to account.
Her daughter Sophie Parkinson, 13, died at home in Angus, Fife, in 2014, after she had viewed suicidal and self-harm posts on social media. Ruth said she did everything she could to protect Sophie online but warned parents can never been 100 per cent sure what their children are viewing.
She told how she had been shamed by other parents for giving Sophie a phone when she was 12 but warned children can get around even the best parental controls. Ruth, from Edinburgh, said: “We gave Sophie a phone when she was 12 to give her a bit of independence.
