This is a very sad case, the point here is the police have dropped all
charges against the two girls accused of bullying. The two girls
admitted to past bullying but there was no evidence found about any
current bullying by them in the 7 months prior to Ms. Sedwick's death.
I
know there are cases where bullying by others have led to suicide by
individuals, however I do agree that right now the country is going
though bully mania, kind of back in the 80's with the McMartin preschool
molestation case, shortly after the arrests made in that case there was
a major influx of reports of molestation by staff members of other
schools where the majority of the reports turned out to be false.
I'm
not denying the bullying happened in this case and because there is no
record of online or text bullying the bullying and name calling she
wrote down may have been actual verbal bullying but no one has came
forward to report any bullying during the preceding months prior to her
death. However I think because of the major news outlets such as CNN and
Fox immediately jumping on the bullying bandwagon when reports of a
teen suicide are made public that today people are too quick to point
their fingers to bullying and I think that in itself is a tragedy
because all the other possible factors are ignored, factors that may be
just as important in preventing another teenagers death
Rebecca Sedwick suicide: Police file raises questions about bullying - CNN.com
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