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Bullying causes mental health problems - but the effects reduce over time
With more than one in five UK young people saying they’ve recently been bullied, and reports of cyberbullying on the rise, the need to understand the short and long-term impacts it has on mental health is crucial. An MQ-funded study published today in JAMA Psychiatry has provided the strongest evidence we have to date around direct impact of bullying on the development of mental health problems.
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Parents can now face jail time if their child is a bully
Parents of children found bullying other minors can now end up in jail, thanks to a recently-passed ordinance in one western New York town. The new law, which went into effect on October 1 in North Tonawanda, New York, states that any parent of a child who violates city law twice within a 90-day period could be fined $250 and sentenced up to 15 days in jail. This includes infractions such as bullying other children and breaking the city's curfew.
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Mother: Children Bullied At School For Not Being Christian
A frustrated Powell County mother said she's at her wit's end because of how her children are being treated at Stanton Elementary. She told LEX 18 that for two years, students and teachers have bullied her children for not being Christian.
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Girl, 10, commits suicide after alleged bullying
Parents say their 10-year-old daughter committed suicide over video of a fight with an alleged bully. Ashawnty Davis was only in fifth grade. At the end of October, she was involved in a fight at school. Her mother claims her daughter was confronting a bully. They say it was her first fight and it was recorded by another student and posted on an app called Musical.ly.
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Teens facing expulsion for beating student with disabilities, mother says
An Atlanta mother says a group that attacked her daughter, who has a hearing impairment, is facing a more serious punishment after video surfaced of the beating. Channel 2’s Tom Jones spoke to the mother of the Maynard Jackson High School student, who she said was recorded being beaten by a group of students.
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Brooklyn boy, 6, comes home from school with both arms broken, education officials pointing fingers
A Brooklyn mother was shocked when she picked her son up from his Bushwick school: both of the 6-year-old student's arms were broken. Krystal Alejandro immediately asked school officials what had happened, but no one could explain it. Her son is in the after-school program at P.S. 106 and was in their care at the time. But neither the school nor the after-school program have taken responsibility for the boy during the afternoon playground accident.
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Teens who were severely bullied as children at higher risk of suicidal thoughts, mental health issue
Teens who were severely bullied as children by peers are at higher risk of mental health issues, including suicidal thoughts and behaviours, according to new research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). "Our findings showed a general tendency, in about 15% of the children, of being exposed to the most severe levels of victimization from the beginning of their education until the transition to high school," writes Dr. Marie-Claude Geoffroy, McGill Group for Suicide Studies, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, with coauthors.
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Cyberbullying blamed for Australian child model's suicide
A 14-year-old girl who was the angelic face of an iconic Australian bushmen's hat brand was remembered by hundreds of mourners Friday after her suicide focused attention on the dangers of cyberbullying. The memorial service for Amy "Dolly" Everett was held in the tiny Northern Territory town of Katherine near her family's cattle ranch. Most mourners dressed in her favorite color, blue, and many had driven hundreds of miles from distant ranches.
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Classmate: Girl tortured with siblings was bullied, frail
The oldest of the 13 California siblings who authorities said were imprisoned by their parents was frail, smelly and picked on as a grade school student in Texas, one of her classmates said in a heart-wrenching Facebook post. The now-29-year-old woman was rescued with her starving brothers and sisters from their home in Perris, California, on Jan. 14. Neighbors and relatives said they were unaware of the children's treatment until authorities arrested the parents and revealed what they found inside.
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US teens charged with knowingly exposing severely allergic classmate to pineapple
Three teenage girls are facing criminal charges in the United States after knowingly exposing a classmate with a severe pineapple allergy to the fruit, police say. A 14-year-old is accused of rubbing pineapple on her own hand and then high-fiving the girl with the allergy during a lunch period at Butler Intermediate High School in Butler, Pennsylvania, on December 13. The victim, also 14, was transported to Butler Memorial Hospital, where she was treated and released, The Associated Press reported.
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B.C. teen printed her bully’s hateful message on a t-shirt because ‘those words don’t define you’
A Prince George teen is getting a lot of praise for the way she faced bullies at her school. Grade 9 student Kailey Kukkola says someone had scrawled the words ‘Kailey Kukkola is a disgusting flat, ugly slut’ on the wall of a girl’s bathroom at College Heights High.
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The Yankees sent out an important anti-bullying message after a young fan's social media post
When used for good, social media can be a very powerful tool for helping others. Recently, a woman named Jenn Slater posted on Facebook about her daughter, Cassidy, and her issues with being bullied at her middle school. It's tough to watch, but important just the same. Cassidy and her mom live in Scranton, Pa., near the home of the Yankees' Triple-A affiliate Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. Cassidy's mother's post has gained steam since it was shared two weeks ago, racking up a few hundred thousand views ... and, apparently, catching the attention of the Yankees themselves.
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Sharing hate posts online could lead to six months' jail
Social media users who share or comment on racist or anti-gay postings will face jail under rules proposed yesterday. Advice for judges and magistrates recommends harsh punishments for those found guilty of stirring up hatred against racial, religious or sexual minority groups. Among those jailed should be people who post comments or share online hate speech because they have been reckless as to whether they stir up hatred, say the proposals from the Sentencing Council.
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Gay teen says she went to school resource officer after getting bullied -- and he told her she's going to hell
A gay teenager who is graduating from the North Bend High School in Oregon has written an account of vicious bullying she received at school — along with the school administration’s total indifference to how she was being treated. Writing over at the ACLU’s website, graduating senior Liv Funk chronicles being called homophobic slurs by her classmates, as well as one male student who physically abused her by hitting her with his skateboard.
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Mom sues counselor, 5 students after daughter bullied into suicide attempt
Debra James said her daughter, identified in the lawsuit by the initials S.J., faced bullying, cyberbullying, verbal harassment and physical assault at Westport Middle School in 2015-16 school year.
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Olympia 6-year-old ends up in hospital after standing up to bullies
A 6-year-old boy in Olympia was assaulted after he says he stood up to a group of kids who were bullying his friend. Carter and his mother Dana English left Harborview Medical Center in Seattle on Friday afternoon after a morning surgery to repair a laceration in his eye. “It’s been hell,” Dana said. “I haven’t slept. I haven’t eaten. I can’t do anything. I can’t even leave his side.”
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Lawsuit accuses 'mean girls' at Pa. school of targeting boy with false sexual assault accusations
The unnamed boy endured multiple court appearances, detention in a juvenile facility, detention at home and bullying at school until several of the girls admitted their accusations were false.
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Girl Named Alexa, 6, Bullied Due to Amazon Device: Parents
A distraught mom has sent a letter to Amazon pleading with the company to help stop the bullying she says her 6-year-old daughter has experienced from sharing the same name with its virtual assistant device Alexa. “Mr. Bezos, I write to you as a father and human being rather than the CEO of Amazon,” she said. “We are not asking for wealth or recognition from this request. We just want to correct an error we believe was a giant mistake.”
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