Posted on November 18th, 2009 by heygrrrl
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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Posted on November 18th, 2009 by heygrrrl
BY RANDY LUDLOW
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
An Ohio University fraternity and its members could be suspended or expelled following allegations that pledges were forced to drink large amounts of alcohol and were beaten.
Two students’ injuries required treatment at the Athens hospital while several others received minor injuries Thursday night at the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house, according [...]
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Posted on November 17th, 2009 by heygrrrl
KCCI 8 News
DES MOINES, Iowa — Members of the Drake University Phi Delta Theta chapter are learning they’re no longer a fraternity.
Two incidents in two weeks have two Drake fraternities in big trouble.
Tags: Phi Delta Theta, Drake University, R. Sentwali Bakari, Hazing, School Violence, Sentwali Bakari
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Posted on November 17th, 2009 by heygrrrl
Mark Jeffries
Scottish Daily Record
SINGING sensation Susan Boyle has revealed she was bullied and got the belt every day at school.
She also unveiled her new look as she prepares for the release of her debut album, I Dreamed A Dream – with pre- sales thought to be well over 100,000.
The Britain’s Got Talent star also spoke [...]
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Posted on November 12th, 2009 by heygrrrl
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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Posted on November 12th, 2009 by heygrrrl
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.
Tags: Darryl Rouson, Lawsuits/Criminal Charges, School Violence, Velma Newman, Jennifer Giroux, [...]
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Posted on November 10th, 2009 by heygrrrl
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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Posted on November 8th, 2009 by heygrrrl
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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Posted on November 6th, 2009 by heygrrrl
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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Posted on November 6th, 2009 by heygrrrl
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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Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by heygrrrl
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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Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by heygrrrl
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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Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by heygrrrl
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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Posted on October 30th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Mary Schmich
Chicago Tribune
Bill Leach has an uncommon answer to the violence that lately — or maybe always — pulses through Chicago as palpably as blood.
Running.
Leach thinks it’s time to tell what he calls “the story of running” in neighborhoods where recreational running is as rare as stock portfolios and Paris vacations.
Tags: World Sport Chicago, [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Tiffani N. Garlic
The Star-Ledger
Franklin Twp. Police Chief Craig Novick said he is “heartbroken” about a melee between students and police officers at the high school.
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP (Somerset) — The Somerset County prosecutor confirmed Wednesday that he is investigating the melee that erupted between students and police officers from six departments outside Franklin Township High [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Tiffani N. Garlic
New Jersey Star-Ledger
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP (Somerset) — The township’s police chief has joined a leading minister in asking the federal government to help improve relations between the police and the community. The request follows a last week’s melee between high school students and officers from six police departments.
“The racial makeup of the police [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Jane Slater
Denver 7NEWS
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Kevin Kaneta, 15, said walking is hard enough but school is a nightmare.
Kaneta, who was born with cerebral palsy, said he has been the target of bullying since third grade and each year, it gets worse. When asked, “Why?” Kaneta said it had to do with his disability.
“They [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Rita Giordano
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
School violence saw a 5 percent decline around the state, but substance abuse rose, according to an annual report released today.
State Education Commissioner Lucille E. Davy credited the decline in school violence to the state’s anti-violence programs.
Tags: Lucille E. Davy, Bullying, School Violence
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Posted on October 20th, 2009 by heygrrrl
SAFFRON HOWDEN
Brisbane Times
ALEX WILDMAN’S school principal and deputy admitted days after the bullied teenager committed suicide he might still be alive if the school had handled his case differently.
His mother, Justine Kelly, told the inquest into the 14-year-old’s death in July 2008, that Kadina High’s then-principal Stephen Lowndes and deputy Bradd Farrell had visited her [...]
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Posted on October 11th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Reid Kerr
TYLER, TX (KLTV) – Wednesday’s murder was not the first incident on the John Tyler campus, only the most serious. Numerous fights and gang-related problems have created what a psychologist calls an atmosphere of fear for students.
While TISD says Wednesday was an isolated incident, they admit there are problems on campus.
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