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ABC 36 News
Montgomery County, Kentucky — In Montgomery County, a group of McNabb Middle School basketball players are back on the court after being suspended for three games for hazing younger players. Some parents think the punishment was not severe enough.
“No one should have to go through anything like this especially a 12 year old [...]

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By David Spunt
WAFB.COM News
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) – A Baton Rouge parent is suing The Dunham School over what he calls a case of old fashioned bullying. Dr. Russell Saloom, a Baton Rouge ophthalmologist, says The Dunham School did nothing to stop the harassment of his child.
Saloom says his ten-year-old son was bullied at the [...]

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Rachel Brown
The Daily Citizen
Chattsworth, Georgia — No one will be charged at Murray County High School in connection with alleged bullying incidents David and Tina Long say led to their son’s Oct. 17 suicide.
The couple asked the Chatsworth Police Department to look into their son Tyler’s last days, saying he took his life because he [...]

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News10.com
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — A San Diego mother is seeking legal action after she said bullying from her daughter’s former classmate has spiraled out of control, 10News reported.
Alkini Lauderdale’s 14-year old-daughter stopped going to school because she’s afraid for her safety. Lauderdale said a classmate had been harassing her since the 5th grade, and she’s [...]

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By Rich Phillips
CNN
Deerfield Beach, Florida (CNN) — It’s a call that no firefighter ever wants to have to answer.
For firefighter-paramedic Bobby Goss, it was the worst call of his four-year career. And when you hear the screams of 15-year-old Michael Brewer on the 911 calls, you know why this was such a horrific call for [...]

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By ROD CHALLENGER
Tampa Tribune
At least two families are suing the Pinellas County school district over allegations of bullying.
Velma Newman, the mother of one victim, said she wants to force the school district to take action so that other children don’t end up like her son.

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By Rich Phillips
CNN
Fort Lauderdale, Florida (CNN) — Three teens who allegedly set a 15-year-old friend ablaze were charged Monday as adults, and with attempted murder, prosecutors said.
The state attorney’s office in Broward County, Florida, identified the three youths as Denver Jarvis and Matthew Bent, age 15, and Jesus Mendez, age 16. They are charged with [...]

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Independent Television News
CORNWALL, England — Police have said they are pursuing a number of lines of enquiry in their hunt for the killers of a devoted mother of nine who died in a house fire started by a firework pushed through her letterbox.
Mary Fox, 59, was trapped in her bedroom after reportedly pushing her 17-year-old [...]

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By Steven Swinford
London Sunday Times
POLICE have opened a murder inquiry into the death of a mother of nine in a house fire that started when a firework was pushed through her letterbox.
Mary Fox, 59, died after helping her teenage son jump through an upstairs window to save him as flames engulfed the house in Bodmin, [...]

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By Allison Steele and Peter Mucha
Philadelphia Inquirer
Police are investigating whether the shooting of a 17-year-old Philadelphia student on a school bus early yesterday was in retaliation for an incident of bullying.
The teens were on a school bus headed to a high school for troubled students when a 15-year-old shot the student in the head. [...]

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BBC News
Mary Fox helped her 17-year-old son jump out of a window on the first floor
The family of a “devoted” mother-of-nine from Cornwall, who died in a house fire after a firework was put through the door, have paid tribute to her.
Mary Fox died in the fire in Wallace Road, Bodmin on Thursday night, after [...]

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By Malaika Fraley
Contra Costa Times
MARTINEZ — Charges for a Richmond man connected to the gang rape of a Richmond High School student outside a homecoming dance indicate his alleged involvement differed from five other defendants facing stiffer punishment, though prosecutors are not saying how.
Elvis Josue Torrentes, 21, was charged Thursday with sexual penetration of an [...]

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ABC News
RICHMOND, CA (KGO) — There is new information about the people who made the one and only 911 call to police the night a Richmond teenager was gang raped outside a school dance.
A group of teens were gathered at a home to watch a movie. A young man arrived and told the others he [...]

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CTV British Columbia
RCMP in Richmond, B.C., said Friday that a group of teenaged boys who viciously attacked a 16-year-old boy earlier this week appeared to have been motivated by revenge.
“The victim was described as a bully himself,” said RCMP Cpl. Jennifer Pound in a press release.
At about 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, police were called to [...]

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By BRUCE TOMASO
The Dallas Morning News
The parents of a Prairie View A&M University student who died last month have filed a lawsuit alleging that the death was the result of brutal fraternity hazing.
The lawsuit stems from the Oct. 20 death of Donnie Wade Jr. of Oak Cliff, a 20-year-old transfer student who collapsed during an [...]

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By CINDY HORSWELL
Houston Chronicle
A 20-year-old Phi Beta Sigma pledge at Prairie View A&M University underwent systematic hazing — including a strict bread-and-water diet, paddling and mandatory rigorous exercises — that intensified until it culminated in his death, a lawsuit filed by his parents states.
Donnie Wade II, a biology major studying to become a doctor, died [...]

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By DAN MCCUE
Courthouse News
DALLAS – A fraternity killed a freshman pledge by forcing him onto a bread and water diet while inflicting extreme exercise regimes on him in a hazing ritual, his parents claim in Dallas County Court. The Rev. Donnie and Katrina Wade seek punitive damages from Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity and Prairie A&M [...]

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By Carlin DeGuerin Miller
CBS News.com
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Even as Richmond, Calif., police interrogated a sixth suspect in the October 24th gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a homecoming dance, prosecutors let one go.
Contra Costa prosecutors declined to file charges against 21-year-old Salvador Rodriguez, who had been arrested previously, citing insufficient evidence. Rodriguez was released [...]

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By EMILY FRIEDMAN
ABC News
The parents of the 15-year-old California girl who was brutally gang raped outside a high school homecoming dance last week released a statement this weekend asking that the incident provoke change at the school.
Police arrest more people in connection with the alleged rape of a teen girl.
“Please do not respond to this [...]

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By Ron Avi Astor
CNN News
Editor’s note: Ron Avi Astor, Ph.D., is a professor in the Schools of Social Work and Education at the University of Southern California and is the author of “School Violence in Context,” published by Oxford University Press.
(CNN) — The alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old girl on the campus of Richmond [...]

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