South Carolina officials announced Friday that criminal charges won’t be filed in last month’s death of a 10-year-old girl who reportedly died after a fight at her middle school, revealing the fifth-grader died as a result of an undiagnosed medical condition unrelated to the altercation. According to BuzzFeed, county prosecutor Duffie Stone said Raniya Wright’s March …
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 …
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 …
Two Head Start teachers in Illinois were placed on paid administrative leave following allegations that preschoolers were ordered to get naked and stand in a closet as punishment. According to KMOV, the alleged incidents occurred at Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center’s Head Start program, which is managed by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). University police alleged that four of …
A feud between two Texas teens played out on social media in the days leading up to a fatal stabbing that left one dead and the other in custody at a juvenile detention facility. According to Fox News, 18-year-old Kaitlin Leonor Castilleja was fatally stabbed early Friday morning during an altercation at the 16-year-old suspect’s …
A Texas man was arrested after allegedly striking a 12-year-old boy who was reportedly bullying his stepdaughter as she walked home from school in a Deer Park neighborhood. Police said James Olander Peace slapped the boy in the face with an open hand, causing red marks and swelling to his cheek and upper jaw. Speaking with …
A little boy with an anxiety disorder made a desperate plea for help after bullies at his school reportedly beat him for 10 minutes when he was a mere 7-year-old. Jack Wilkinson, a now 9-year-old boy from Sydney, Australia, was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder when he was a small child, according to his mother, Kristy …
A teen boy is lucky to have his eyesight after a bully accused of attacking him for no reason, allegedly punched him in the face so viciously his glasses smashed into his left eyelid. DerbyShireLive reports the incident occurred in early February at the Merrill Academy in Derby, England, after a student attacked 15-year-old Nathaniel Dryden. Nathaniel’s father, …
The parents of a 10-year-old Kentucky boy who reportedly took his own life last weekend said they plan to sue the school district, alleging that school officials failed to stop relentless bullying at school and on the bus that led to their son’s suicide. WDRB reports that Seven Bridges’ mother found her son dead at …
A teen girl in Michigan was so distraught by ongoing sexual harassment and stalking from an ex-boyfriend that she tried to take her own life, a lawsuit alleges. The Detroit Free Press obtained court documents accusing a Michigan school district of ignoring complaints about the alleged stalking and harassment of a now-17-year-old student who was …
A 14-year-old boy has turned himself in weeks after a video reportedly showed him and others attacking an 11-year-old girl in New York City. WPIX reported that a group of teens was filmed on December 18 throwing a backpack at the victim in addition to dousing her with water and repeatedly punching her in the …
An Alabama school district claimed no reports of bullying were made at the elementary school attended by a girl who hanged herself earlier this month. Alex Braswell, a lawyer representing Demopolis City Schools told the Tuscaloosa News that the school system conducted an internal investigation into the bullying allegations made by McKenzie Adams’ family and did not find that …
