Ilyssa DeCasperis
Co-Founder and Vice President
Ilyssa became a co-founder of CompelAmerica after her 13 year old son was cyberbullied in Junior High School. Another child opened a social media account using her son’s name and information (school, neighborhood, etc) and began posting anti-Semitic and homophobic posts, using vulgar and obscene language. Her son came up to her one night at about 11:30pm begging for help because he was trying to control it on his own and unsuccessful. He seemed to know who the other child was in his class.
She contacted the social media company who advised her that they were only the “publishers” of the account and they are protected as such. She informed them that these were 13 year old children. They told her they allow “spoof” accounts.
Frustrated, Ilyssa contacted the school and they were relatively unresponsive, stating that it didn’t happen on “school property” and they can’t identify who did it.
She proceeded to the police department where she was told that since she could not prove who did it, there was nothing they could do for her, despite the last post stating “Don’t worry, we’ll be back with weapons” directed at the NYC public school he attended. Ilyssa demanded that they take her complaint and give her a complaint number… Read More
