Bully News

As America’s bullying crisis reaches epidemic proportions, an unorthodox social experiment captured on video has highlighted one of the main problems in tackling the issue. The video has averaged over 88,000 views per day for the last two months.

A new simulation video game from Pixelberry Studios is teaming up with The Cybersmile Foundation to battle many issues a typical high school student goes through, including bullying.

Lakeland - A 12-year-old Floridian girl killed herself after she was bullied online by more than a dozen girls. The Sheriff is investigating to see if he can pursue charges under Florida’s cyber-bullying law.

Kolkata - An 11-year-old girl died after failing to sustain the psychological trauma of bullying by her seniors at a school in the city of Kolkata, according to reports.

Prescott - "Being beaten down repeatedly – in the physical and cyber worlds – is not a rite of passage. It is a recipe for ruination of a young life," says recovery expert Holli Kenley.

New Westminster - The hacker group known as Anonymous has named a person who allegedly drove 15-year-old Amanda Todd to commit suicide on Oct. 10.

Canton - Hope Holcomb, 10, has cerebral palsy, but she loves playing outdoors. However, her parents claim she is afraid to go out of her home in Canton, Stark County, because a man and his 9-yr-old son next door bully and mock her due to her condition.

Wollongong - ‘Stand Up! Stand together. Don’t be a bystander’ is the message in an anti-bullying video inspired and performed by a group of Australian schoolchildren who have experienced bullying themselves.

The video shows a group of teenagers literally tormenting a 10-year-old boy on his way to school. For 40 minutes, Cequan Haskins endured verbal and physical abuse from two 15-year-old bullies in May 2011.

San Antonio - Two teachers have been charged with allegedly ordering kindergarten students to each hit a classroom bully. The boy's friends who didn't want to strike him eventually did so, for fear of being punished by their teachers.