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Francesa Mani told her mother she would not be a victim after fake images were circulated around her New Jersey school

In October last year Francesa Mani came home from school in the suburbs of New Jersey with devastating news for her mother, Dorota.

Earlier in the day the 14-year-old had been called into the vice-principal's office and notified that she and a group of girls at Westfield High had been the victims of targeted abuse by a fellow student.