My Daughter Was Bullied And Was Set Up! Why Are You Arresting Her?

Florida teen was set up by cyber bullies.

A mother is calling out the Pembroke Police Department for an unlawful arrest on her daughter. The daughter was bullied by students and one deliberately created a phony profile to harass her. The student also posted a threat to the school and it led to the young girl being arrested.

The mother is suing the school and Instagram on behalf of her daughter, Nia Whims. The 13-year old was wrongly arrested and spent 11 days in a juvie. It was determined that another student, a 12-year old made a phony account and sent threatening social media messages.

Whim has been exonerated of all charges after the 12-year old student "maliciously impersonated" her. 

Pembroke Police Department said that the 12-year old used Nia's personal details to create an email address, opened multiple Instagram accounts and sent herself and other students threatening messages.

The student identified in the lawsuit as M.S., used the fake accounts to make threats to blow up the school and kill teachers and students, the lawsuit said. M.S. then "intentionally lied to law enforcement and school staff to frame" Nia for the threats, police said in their statement.

I am going to protect my daughter.

Nia's mother, Lezlie-Ann Davis, allegedly in the lawsuit that her daughter's school failed to investigate multiple bullying incidents her daughter experienced, the police department failed to promptly investigate whether the Instagram accounts truly belonged to Nia, and that Instagram failed to cooperate promptly with authorities.

A lawyer representing Davis and Nia did not respond to comments. Instagram, a part of Meta, Inc. declined to discuss pending lawsuits.

The spokesperson for Renaissance Charter School declined to answer questions about the students and the incident due to the lawsuit. However, they released a statement saying that their "highest priority remains the safety and security of our students. We always have and always will take all appropriate actions to ensure our student are safe."

The lawsuit states that the school, the police department and Instagram caused "this innocent 13-year old girl to be taken from home by the police, in front of her helpless family, and placed in a juvenile detention facility for eleven (11) days," according to the lawsuit. The experience was "the direct and proximate cause of severe mental distress, pain and anguish which is severe and ongoing and has manifested itself in the daily life of this now young woman."

"I felt really lost about the situation," Nia said in a Feb. 15 interview.

The suspect who created the account and threats will be criminally charged. The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.