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 [...]

Drake frat banned for hazing; 2 others under investigation

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.

Susan Boyle: I was bullied, beaten at school for being slow

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 [...]

Tyler Long: Did bullying lead Georgia teen to suicide?

Karen Zatkulak
News Channel 9
Chatsworth, Georgia — A family wants answers after they say bullying lead to their son’s death. Seventeen year old Tyler Long committed suicide last month.
“He was my best friend, my role model, I looked to him for advice,” Troy Long, Tyler’s fourteen-year-old brother, says.

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, [...]

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.

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 [...]

Coach Bill Leach: Running could stop school violence

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.

Prosecutor investigates alleged use of Mace, force outside Franklin High School dance

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 [...]

Buster Soaries, police chief ask feds to help ease tensions in Franklin

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 [...]

Kevin Kaneta: Cerebral Palsy made vulnerable to bullying

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hinkley High parents to see tape of post-soccer ‘hazing’

ABC 7 News
AURORA, Colo. — Parents who want to see surveillance video showing roughhousing and a possible sexual hazing on the Hinkley High School bus last month will be allowed to see it after all, the Aurora Public School District said Thursday.
The announcement reverses the school district’s earlier decision to withhold the evidence from parents [...]

N.J. schools report: Violence down, drug abuse up

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.

Inquest: Alex Wildman bullied before suicide

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 [...]

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.