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Father fights back against bullying after son's suicide

October 19, 2013 | By Matt Hamilton
An Illinois dad got the call on Thursday that no parent ever wants to receive. Brad
Lewis' ex-wife was on the phone: Their 15-year-old son had shot himself in the chest.
In the note Jordan Lewis left behind, he laid blame on bullying. Although stricken with
grief, Lewis, 47, found resolve. He took to Facebook that night and posted a series of
videos explaining his son's death and the events leading up to it: the alleged
bullying, the concern of his son's best friend, the wellness visit by police the night
before the suicide, and the 911 call his son made shortly before pulling the trigger.
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SPORTS

Ducks have plans for Stars' bullying tactics

April 22, 2014 | By Lance Pugmire
DALLAS - It's not just about getting under the Ducks' skin with the Dallas Stars, it's
about penetrating their minds. The evidence includes Antoine Roussel's Game 3
punch directed at Ryan Getzlaf's cut-up face, Ryan Garbutt's slide that broke the
right leg of Ducks defenseman Stephane Robidas, and Stars Coach Lindy Ruff's
endorsement of the roughness. A couple of scrums that, I'm pretty sure if you
watch, our guys got punched in the face a few times when you're getting punched
in the face, you're going to punch back playoff hockey's emotional, Ruff said after
Dallas' 3-0 victory that cut the Ducks' Western Conference first-round best-of-seven
series lead to 2-1. After losing the first two games, the Stars clearly displayed their
desperation mode in a 17-penalty battle, and now it's the Ducks' turn to answer in
Game 4 on Wednesday at American Airlines Center.

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SCIENCE

Victims of bullying live with the consequences for decades,

study says
April 18, 2014 | By Karen Kaplan
Victims of bullies suffer the psychological consequences all the way until middle age,
with higher levels of depression, anxiety and suicide, new research shows. The
immediate ill effects of bullying have been well documented, with experts
increasingly seeing it as a form of child abuse . Influential studies from Finland have
made the case that people who were bullied as kids continued to suffer as young
adults - girls who were bullied grew up to attempt and commit suicide more
frequently by the age of 25, for instance, and boys were more likely to develop
anxiety disorders.
SCIENCE

Victims of bullying live with the consequences for decades,

study says
April 18, 2014 | By Karen Kaplan
Victims of bullies suffer the psychological consequences all the way until middle age,
with higher levels of depression, anxiety and suicide, new research shows. The

immediate ill effects of bullying have been well documented, with experts
increasingly seeing it as a form of child abuse . Influential studies from Finland have
made the case that people who were bullied as kids continued to suffer as young
adults - girls who were bullied grew up to attempt and commit suicide more
frequently by the age of 25, for instance, and boys were more likely to develop
anxiety disorders.
SCIENCE

Teens taunted by bullies are more likely to consider,

attempt suicide
March 10, 2014 | Karen Kaplan
Victims of bullying were more than twice as likely as other kids to contemplate
suicide and about 2.5 times as likely to try to kill themselves, according to a new
study that quantifies the emotional effects of being teased, harassed, beaten up or
otherwise harmed by one's peers. Children and teens who were taunted by
cyberbullies were especially vulnerable -- they were about three times as likely than
other kids to have suicidal thoughts, the study found. The findings, published online
Monday by the journal JAMA Pediatrics, puts the lie to the old adage about sticks and
stones.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL

Younger children falling victim to online bullying

October 21, 2013 | Sandy Banks
It seems to happen often enough that we're no longer shocked to hear it: A teenager
commits suicide after being bullied online by peers. But the recent death in Florida of
12-year-old Rebecca Ann Sedwick and arrest of two of her former middle school
classmates makes it clear that victims are getting younger and bullies more brazen
online. Two girls, 12 and 14, have been charged with felony aggravated stalking
based on evidence of a year of online taunts and threats. Sheriff's deputies
confiscated the cellphones and laptops of more than a dozen girls accused of
bullying Rebecca and found messages such as "You should die. " This may be the
first time children have been accused of a crime in connection with suicide.
NEWS

Don't ignore sibling bullying

June 19, 2013 | By Mary MacVean
Has anyone with a sibling not been in the back seat of a car, someone hitting
someone and parents threatening to pull over right this minute? Just seems like
part of growing up, right? Well some researchers say not necessarily. Parents, doctors
and schools should not dismiss sibling bullying, they said. Sibling aggression can be
as damaging as other sorts of bullying, and it can be linked to poorer mental health,
according to a study published this week in the journal Pediatrics.
SCIENCE

Coaches bully young athletes more often than you think,

experts warn
January 13, 2014 | By Karen Kaplan
What do pediatricians call a coach who screams at his players, blames kids for
prompting his outbursts and says his methods are justified because the team wins
games? A bully. A more typical picture of a bully is a big kid intimidating a smaller
one on a playground. But it's not age that defines a bully; it's power. Nothing in the
definition requires a peer-to-peer relationship, only one individual with perceived

power over another, experts write in an article published Monday in the journal
Pediatrics . The coach-athlete relationship involves an inherent imbalance of
power. Bullying is more than an annoyance.
BUSINESS

Ask.fm: New social site, same bullying

August 20, 2013 | By Jessica Guynn and Janet Stobart
SAN FRANCISCO - On Ask.fm, millions of American teens talk about their hookups,
struggles to get good grades and wild weekend parties with no parents or adults to
peer over their shoulders. Some also use the social network to anonymously torment
other teens. With its popularity soaring in middle schools and high schools across the
U.S., Ask.fm is coming under attack from parents, politicians and privacy watchdog
groups. It has been linked to the suicides of four teens in Britain and Ireland and one
in the United States.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL

An End to Bullying
April 1, 2001
Re "District Adopts Anti-Bullying Policy," March 15: If this is to succeed, the faculty
will have to give up their godlike aloofness, get down in the trenches with the kids
and see for themselves what is going on. The kids will resent this, but so what? If a
victim reports a bully, the only way to protect him from retaliation is to provide an
around-the-clock bodyguard or send him out of town; otherwise, his tormentor will
get to him sooner or later. The adults should get involved in everything the students
do, not just in the classroom.
NATIONAL

Pennsylvania school stabbing suspect's attorney discounts

bullying
April 10, 2014 | By Richard Simon
MONROEVILLE, Pa. -- The attorney for the 16-year-old suspect in a high school
stabbing rampage discounted bullying as a motive, saying Thursday that Alex Hribal
had endured some teasing from classmates but nothing "overbearing" that would
equate to bullying. After meeting with Alex Hribal for several hours at a juvenile jail,
attorney Patrick Thomassey said the motivation for Wednesday's mayhem at
Franklin Regional Senior High School in Murrysville remained a mystery to him and
the boy's parents because Hribal doesn't have any history of mental illness or violent
behavior.
NATIONAL

Pennsylvania school stabbing suspect 'doesn't fit the mold'

April 10, 2014 | By Alana Semuels, Richard Simon and Tina Susman
MURRYSVILLE, Pa. - A teenager charged in a high school stabbing rampage "just
doesn't fit the mold" of someone who could be harboring such rage, his lawyer said
Thursday as the boy's classmates fought to recover from life-threatening wounds
and thanked the friends who came to their aid. At a hospital news conference, one of
the wounded, Brett Hurt, summed up the actions of his friend Gracey Evans, who
was with him Wednesday as the assailant plunged...
NEWS

Gay rights 'anti-bullying' activists: The biggest bullies of

them all

April 7, 2014 | By Charlotte Allen, guest blogger

Hey, gay rights activists: Why are you doing your best to make everyone hate you?
I'm talking about the forced resignation of Mozilla Corp. CEO Brendan Eich . Because
six years ago as a private citizen -- I repeat, six years ago as a private citizen -- he
contributed $1,000 -- I repeat, $1,000 -- to the campaign for Proposition 8 , the
approved ballot measure that changed the California Constitution to say that
marriage between a man and a woman would be the only kind of marriage that the
state would recognize as legal.
SCIENCE

Even popular kids are bullied in high school, researchers

find
April 2, 2014 | By Mary MacVean
Only the prom king and queen are safe. Researchers say that the more popular teens
are - except for those at the very apex of the fragile high school hierarchy - the more
likely they are to be bullied, perhaps a surprise to people who presumed outcasts
were the exclusive targets. Researchers Robert Faris of UC Davis and Diane Felmlee
of Penn State University write that traditional, everyday views of bullying - reported
by nearly a fifth of teens - tell less than the whole story.
NATIONAL

Teenage girls accused of assaulting, bullying autistic boy

March 13, 2014 | By Paresh Dave
Two teenage girls in Maryland allegedly held a knife to the throat of an autistic 16year-old boy and forced him to perform various sex acts as part of two months of
bullying, authorities said. Lauren Ashley Bush, 17, has been charged as an adult in
St. Mary's County in southern Maryland with two counts of first-degree assault, two
counts of second-degree assault, false imprisonment and child pornography
solicitation. A 15-year-old girl is facing the same allegations in juvenile court.
SCIENCE

Teens taunted by bullies are more likely to consider,

attempt suicide
March 10, 2014 | Karen Kaplan
Victims of bullying were more than twice as likely as other kids to contemplate
suicide and about 2.5 times as likely to try to kill themselves, according to a new
study that quantifies the emotional effects of being teased, harassed, beaten up or
otherwise harmed by one's peers. Children and teens who were taunted by
cyberbullies were especially vulnerable -- they were about three times as likely than
other kids to have suicidal thoughts, the study found. The findings, published online
Monday by the journal JAMA Pediatrics, puts the lie to the old adage about sticks and
stones.

SPORTS

Richie Incognito bullying case raises questions for Miami

Dolphins
November 5, 2013 | By Sam Farmer
The bullying allegations against Miami Dolphins guard Richie Incognito potentially
raise a troubling inconsistency for the franchise. Incognito came to the team with a
checkered past -- including getting kicked off the Nebraska and Oregon football

teams -- so did the Dolphins devote sufficient resources to watching him? That he
was a member of the team's leadership council, and last season was given the Good
Guy award by the beat writers who cover the team, underscore the conflicting
feelings within the building about Incognito, who is accused of threatening and
harassing fellow offensive lineman Jonathan Martin.
NATIONAL

Florida sheriff in bullying case won't rule out more arrests

October 17, 2013 | By Ralph Vartabedian
Grady Judd, the sheriff of Polk County, Fla., said Thursday that he is continuing his
investigation of bullying and stalking that led to the suicide of 12-year-old Rebecca
Ann Sedwick, but defended this week's arrests of two minors, saying he had to move
quickly because they continued to post abusive messages about the girl even after
her death. Judd's department arrested two girls, ages 12 and 14, on felony
aggravated stalking charges Monday, attracting national attention for one of the
strongest law enforcement responses in history to bullying and stalking among
minors.

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SPORTS

Dolphins trainer unjustly fired in bullying scandal, lawyer

says
March 6, 2014 | By Sam Farmer
Kevin O'Neill, the longtime Miami Dolphins trainer fired in the wake of the team's
bullying scandal, is firing back at the franchise through his lawyer. Attorney Jack
Scarola issued a statement Thursday on behalf of O'Neill, who in the recently
released report of investigator Ted Wells is accused of laughing at inappropriate jokes
aimed at offensive tackle Jonathan Martin and an unnamed assistant trainer. O'Neill
accompanied Dolphins executives, coaches and scouts to last month's scouting
combine in Indianapolis, but was fired on the eve of the annual event.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL

Suspect in fatal rampage at tribal hearing was known for

bullying
February 23, 2014 | By Phil Willon
Cedarville, Calif. - Cherie Lash Rhoades' temper was well known among the many
small Indian tribes settled in Modoc County, tribal members say. One man said he
started avoiding Rhoades after witnessing an outburst years ago when the two
served on a committee for a Native American healthcare clinic. "Something didn't go
her way, so she picked up the corner of the table and threw it," said Sonny Craig, a
member of the Pit River tribe just outside Alturas. Even within her tiny Cedarville
Rancheria tribe, Rhoades could be confrontational, a member of the tribe said.