A 10-year-old girl from Ohio received tons of support over the social media after she was bullied following her decision to have her hair cut and donated in the name of cancer patients.

Jetta Fosberg's selfless act had become a nightmare after several of her male classmates criticized her after showing her new hairdo at school.

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This comes after Jetta asked her parents to take her to the salon and have 14 inches of her long hair cut and be donated to Wigs for Kids, an organization support young cancer patients who lost their hair during their treatment.

Then-proud mother, Heidi Fosburg had been hurt after her daughter told her about how boys at her school called her ugly and said other unkind words to her child.

Fosburg then called the attention of school officials who promised to address the issue and had her fill out a bullying incident report. The principal, however, told the 10-year-old girl to "tough it out."

"And (he) told me that he didn't know of any child that had ever died from words. And that we needed to toughen up and deal with it, and he would deal with it how he saw appropriate, which was obviously not the response we were looking for," Fosburg said during an interview.

That being the last thing she wanted to hear, Jetta's mother decided to pull Jetta out of school after seeing her child becoming more affected with the bullying that lasted for several weeks and publicized the issue over the social media.

Jetta's mother then created a Facebook page against bullying and named it 'Stand with Jetta' which immediately received numerous likes and responses from netizens.

Several people shared their stories about battling cancer, bullying and lauded Jetta for her selfless act while some even admired her haircut.

"Knowing that there's people who think that my haircut's cute, and that they think that I'm a good person, it kind of helps me fight against [the bullies]," Jetta later told WHIO News with a lifted spirit.

After receiving enough public attention, Jetta's plea against bullying is heard out.

Her mother posted an update on the page on Saturday that the president and CEO of National Heritage Academies, the company that manages Jetta's charter school, had personally reached out to her and apologized, promising to take their concerns very seriously.

Tagsnetizens, bullying, Wigs for Kids, Cancer, Ohio