A 6-year-old Connecticut boy seriously burned in April was not intentionally hurt, undercutting claims that he was targeted by an older child who threw a gasoline-soaked ball at him. In a statement, Bridgeport police said they reviewed surveillance footage which showed no evidence that Dominick Krankall was intentionally lit on fire by any other children. Police …
A 6-year-old Connecticut boy was severely burned on Sunday when he was reportedly struck in the face with a tennis ball that had been doused with gasoline and lit on fire. According to WNBC, Dominick Krankall suffered second- and third-degree burns to his face and legs in the attack which occurred in Bridgeport. Police said …
A 10-year-old Utah girl who killed herself last year was told by peers and teachers that she smelled and should shower, according to the findings of a new investigation, CNN reports. As CrimeOnline reported previously, Isabella “Izzy” Tichenor committed suicide in November. At the time, her mother, Brittany Tichenor-Cox, had alleged that her daughter was being bullied …
Two 12-year-old girls were arrested this weekend for allegedly battering another child to the point she couldn’t breathe. According to the Logansport Police Department, the incident happened during a sleepover at a home in Logansport Friday night, with police being dispatched to the residence Saturday morning at around 7:30 a.m. “From the stuff that I’ve …
The mother of a San Antonio boy who committed suicide in 2019 has sued a school district, claiming it didn’t take the proper steps to prevent bullying and racism. According to a lawsuit filed against the East Central Independent School District in San Antonio, Lakeshia Chaney says her 7-year-old son, Jeffery Taylor, killed himself four …
A 13-year-old Louisiana girl who died by suicide earlier this month was the target of relentless bullying that school officials was aware of, according to her mother. Tierra Perkins died on November 14, after reportedly shooting herself at her home. The girl’s mother told WWL that the eighth-grader at Akili Academy of New Orleans used …
Days before the third-grader’s death, he was reportedly attacked and left unconscious in a bathroom
A 15-year-old New York boy reportedly died by suicide last week after an extortion attempt by someone the boy had met online. Riley Basford reportedly took his own life on March 30. Basford’s family told the Watertown Daily News the investigators who examined his cellphone uncovered Facebook messages which suggested the teen had developed a …
As of Friday, a GoFundMe has raised more than $300,000 to send a bullied Australian boy to Disneyland after he was filmed in a viral video crying after school. The New Zealand Herald reported that 9-year-old Quaden Bayles has achondroplasia, a genetic disorder that results in dwarfism. On Tuesday, Bayles’ mother posted a video to …
A Texas school bus driver has been reassigned after surveillance footage surfaced reportedly showing three bigger, older children attack a 5-year-old girl on the bus last November. Audrey Billings reportedly received a 13-minute video last weekend which depicts an assault involving her daughter, Alexis, and three children. Billings told KXAS that she paid $600 to …
A California mother was reportedly attacked as she headed to the principal’s office to address bullying involving her 16-year-old daughter. KRON reported that Maria Jimenez spent two nights in the hospital in connection with Tuesday morning’s assault at James Logan High School. Jimenez and her husband had arrived at the school along with their daughter …
The mother of a 12-year old New Jersey boy who killed himself shortly after coming out as gay in 2017 has sued a school district, alleging that staff failed to stop homophobic bullying and harassment before he took his own life. Recently filed in state Superior Court, the lawsuit alleges that Woodruff School students made …
