STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It's worse than bullying.

That's what a relative of Amanda Diane Cummings had to say about the scores of profane comments and images members of a cybergroup posted to a Facebook tribute page set up in memory of the 15-year-old, who police believe committed suicide by stepping in front of a city bus.

"We set up memorials, they bash the memorials," Keith Cummings, Amanda's uncle, said as he arrived at A. Azzara Funeral Home in South Beach for her wake this afternoon. "It's not bullying, it's cowardly. You want to bully, you show yourself."

The posts -- which included photos and messages mocking the teen's death -- began flooding into the page after a call-to-arms posted onto the "/b/" forum of 4chan.org, a Web site that's home to the Internet's most noxious hackers and cyberbullies. A similar appeal to make light of the tragedy was issued on the self-proclaimed comedy site, 9gag.com.

Miss Cummings was carrying a suicide note, police say, when she jumped in front of a city bus at the intersection of Hylan Boulevard and Hunter Avenue in Dongan Hills Dec. 27. She died six days later, on Monday. Family members attribute her death in part to years of bullying at the hands of her peers and classmates, compounded by a break-up with an older teen.



Her funeral will be tomorrow from Azzara, with a 10 a.m. mass at St. Ann's R.C. Church, Dongan Hills. Her wake is today, from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.

Just before midnight, a 4chan visitor mocked her as "an hero" for committing suicide, then called on other members of the site to post on a Facebook tribute page to her: "So /b/, I please ask that you respect her memory, and write a thoughtful paragraph or too so that all of the teenage candy-asses can feel like heroes by writing how sad they are that the girl is bullied is dead."

A river of venomous, anonymous comments followed on 4chan, including profane, digitally altered images, with one commenter bragging about setting up a fake account under Miss Cummings name on Facebook.

"Photoshopped pics of her for me to dump would be appreciated," the commenter wrote.

Sure enough, comments and photos started showing up on the Facebook tribute page from people with fake names, sparking outraged responses.

An NYPD investigation into the allegations that Miss Cummings was bullied prior to her death is ongoing, though a law enforcement source said that detectives have so far found no proof, online or off, of bullying instances.

Members or 4chan, many of whom identify with the hacker collective "Anonymous," are notorious in Internet circles for taunting and bullying teenagers and, often, taking revenge on critics of the site. They typically hail from across the globe and hide behind shrouds of digital anonymity — using proxies and other methods to mask their true identities and Web addresses.

This afternoon, scores of classmates, friends and relatives attended her wake at the A. Azzara funeral home, many expressing outrage about the bullying relatives believed contributed to her death, as well as the subsequent cyber attacks.

"I just want to beat the [expletive] out of whoever did this to her," said Mike Leckow of Grymes Hill, a New Dorp senior.

"She was always happy, but you saw something was wrong."