McNabb Middle School basketball players allege sexual assault

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 [...]

Delta Tau Delta: Ohio University frat accused of hazing

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 [...]

Louisiana parent sues son’s school, alleges bullying

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 [...]

No criminal charges in Georgia teen’s suicide, bullying

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 [...]

San Diego, Calif.: School bullying has daughter in fear

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 [...]

Paramedic: Dive in pool saved burned teen’s life

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 [...]

Two Pinellas Co., Fla. families sue schools over bullying

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.

3 Florida teens accused of setting boy on fire face attempted murder

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 [...]

Mary Fox murder probe: No ‘obvious evidence’ of bullying

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 [...]

Mary Fox death: Youths hunted over woman’s firework murder

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, [...]

Cornwall bullying: Firework victim Mary Fox ‘devoted’ mom

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 [...]

Sixth defendant in Richmond gang rape case facing lesser penalties

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 [...]

Richmond, Calif. gang rape’s 911 call a group decision

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 [...]

Attack on 16-year-old boy may have been revenge for bullying

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 [...]

Richmond High gang-rape victim speaks out for first time

CBS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
RICHMOND, Calif. (CBS/AP) The 15-year-old victim of a gang-rape and beating at a Richmond High homecoming dance spoke out for the first time Tuesday.
“Violence is always the wrong choice,” she reportedly said in a written statement delivered by victim advocate DeAnna Schlaum at a rally and candlelight vigil.

Parents’ suit alleges hazing in Prairie View A&M student’s death

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 [...]

Prairie A&M U: Parents say hazing killed their son

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 [...]

Richmond High gang-rape suspect Salvador Rodriguez released

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 [...]

Pastor of California gang rape victim speaks out

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 [...]

Opinion: Ask the right question about gang rape

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 [...]

Jordan Maddison, 12, ’scared’ to death by bullies?

London Telegraph
A 12-year-old boy with a heart condition was scared to death by two older boys who were threatening to beat him up, according to a coroner who has asked lawyers and police to consider prosecuting the pair.
Derek Winter, coroner for Sunderland, halted the inquest after hearing evidence for two hours and said that the [...]

Ex-frat members plead guilty in NY hazing death

By BEN DOBBIN
Associated Press
GENESEO, N.Y. — Two former members of a banned college fraternity at a western New York campus admitted Tuesday they plied a student with so much beer, champagne and vodka during a three-day hazing that the young man died of alcohol poisoning.
Arman Partamian, 19, a biology sophomore from New York City, was [...]

Ohio’s Willard High School wrestlers sentenced for bullying

By CORY FROLIK
Sandusky Register
SANDUSKY, OHIO — Although the pair of high school upperclassman moved out of Huron County, they could not escape their past.
It caught up with them on Thursday afternoon when the young men — a 16-year-old junior and an 18-year-old senior — appeared separately before Seneca County Juvenile Judge Jay Meyer for the [...]

Jeremiah Lasater suicide sparks bullying lawsuit

By Brian Charles
Signal Staff Writer
SANTA CLARITA VALLEY, Calif. — The report from the investigation into Jeremiah Lasater’s suicide at Vasquez High School last year will remain confidential pending a lawsuit filed by the Lasater family against the Acton Agua Dulce Unified School District, a school district official said.
“We’re not able to talk about it because [...]

State U. College student’s family files lawsuit

NEW YORK, Oct. 13 (UPI) — The family of a New York college student found dead of alcohol poisoning has filed a lawsuit against eight people connected to the case, officials said.
Arman Partamian, 19, a student at State University College at Geneseo, died March 1 at an outlawed off-campus fraternity known as the Pigs.