School district agrees to pay $3M in bullied 8-year-old’s boy’s suicide — while denying wrongdoing
Bullies
Days before the third-grader’s death, he was reportedly attacked and left unconscious in a bathroom
Bullies
February 21, 2020
‘I wish I could stab myself in my heart’: $300K raised to send bullied boy with dwarfism to Disneyland
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 …
Bullies
January 16, 2020
VIDEO: Bus driver does nothing as students violently bully 5-year-old girl [Reports]
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 …
Assault
January 10, 2020
High school student’s mom viciously attacked as she goes to talk to principal about bullying: Reports
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 …
Bullies
December 19, 2019
Mom jailed for threatening to shoot son’s bullies on Facebook Live: Police
A Georgia mother was arrested at her 11-year-old son’s middle school on Monday after she allegedly threatened to shoot students who were bullying him. WSB-TV reported that Cirea Oliver, 29, was jailed on terroristic threat charges for a 40-minute Facebook Live video in which she blamed parents, teachers, and students for her son’s bullying. Oliver …
Bullies
November 29, 2019
High school football players abused & tormented student team manager with Down syndrome, mom says
A mother in Indiana is speaking out after she says high school administrators ignored football players assaulting and bullying her son with Down syndrome. Lesli Woodruff told WXIN that her son Jack is “forever changed” after being the student manager of Roncalli High School’s football team. Woodruff claimed she informed the school of the alleged …
Bullies
October 29, 2019
Eighth-grader told school principal about bullies DAYS before his sucker-punch death: Family
A deceased teen’s aunt and uncle are planning to sue a California school district. They claim their nephew told administrators that he was being bullied days before two students fatally assaulted him on school grounds. The $100 million wrongful death claim against the Moreno Valley Unified School District alleges that Diego Stolz, 13, and his …
Bullies
September 13, 2019
‘Extreme bullying’: Daycare worker caught on video picking up 5-year-old by the ankle, allowing older children to bully her [Police]
Two Ohio daycare workers are facing charges after they allegedly sat by and allowed other children to bully a young girl. ABC30 reports that two former daycare workers at the Worthington Learning Center in Columbus, identified as Joshua Tennant, 27, and Emma Dietrich, 31, were arrested Tuesday following complaints about an alleged “extreme bullying” incident …
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Bullies
August 14, 2019
GRAPHIC VIDEO: Bully chokes middle schooler, causing permanent brain damage [Lawsuit]
A middle schooler in California was reportedly left with serious brain and spine injuries after another student choked him last year. According to NBC News, surveillance footage from the January 2018 incident showed a 14-year-old student punch a 12-year-old boy in the stomach and pin him against a wall outside. The alleged bully is then …
Bullies
April 22, 2019
Mom says teachers, students bullied her 11-year-old son to suicide attempt, leaving him with permanent brain damage
An Illinois mother has filed a federal lawsuit, claiming that bullying at two schools her 11-year-old son attended went unchecked to the point that he attempted to kill himself in February. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Teirra Black sued the Chicago Board of Education for a February 18 suicide attempt that has left her son, Jamari Dent, …
Bullies
April 8, 2019
‘They failed me’: Mom warned school of alleged bully who she says slammed 10-year-old daughter’s head into bookshelf, killing her
The mother of a South Carolina fifth-grader who died last month after a fight at her elementary school said she warned school officials about the girl who ultimately killed her daughter. Airing Monday, Ashley Wright told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that friends of Raniya Wright, 10, claimed a bully had goaded her daughter to fight all …
Bullies
March 27, 2019
‘He just had enough’: Mom says bullied son, 10, took his own life after classmates told him to ‘kill himself’
A 10-year-old Texas boy reportedly took his own life after enduring relentless bullying from his classmates. KTRK reported that Kevin Reese Jr. died by suicide at his Houston-area home on January 21, after walking home from the bus with his 13-year-old sister. Reese’s mother was out of town and his stepfather was heading home from work …
