Bully appeal falls apart after scam accusationsMURRAY WILSON/FAIRFAX NZ Toni Barnett says she's under siege by the hostile messages piling up on a Facebook page set up to organise a surprise party for her daughter. A Whanganui woman feels like she is being run out of town in the wake of accusations that a Facebook bullying appeal for her daughter was a scam which misled thousands around the world. However Langley said she was no longer talking with Barnett, and she was fighting accusations that the page was set up as a scam: "I'm heartbroken. The story centred on a woman who claimed to have set up the Facebook page. The Facebook page had been changed to a "secret" setting, Barnett said, because a number of people had joined and left accusations on it.

Source: Stuff May 19, 2017 08:37 UTC