Tag: bullying

11 Year Old American Boy Shoots Dead 8 Year Old

An 11-year-old boy in the US state of Tennessee has been held on suspicion of shooting dead an eight-year-old neighbour in a row over a puppy.

The boy has been charged with first-degree murder as a juvenile.

According to police, he shot the girl on Saturday evening with his father’s shotgun after she refused to let him see her puppy.

The girl has been identified as McKayla Dyer. Her mother Latasha said that the two children went to the same school.

“He was making fun of her, calling her names, just being mean to her. He quit for a while and then all of a sudden yesterday he shot her,” Ms Dyer told WATE-TV.

“I want her back in my arms,” she said.

Neighbour Chastity Arwood told WBIR News that she heard the shot ring out and saw McKayla lying on the grass.

“Trying to comfort her mama and her aunt and her grandma and her grandpa and her sister and her brother was the hardest thing I ever had to do,” Ms Arwood said.

The boy is scheduled to appear in court again on 28 October.

The Gun Violence Archive, a not-for-profit organisation that compiles data on gun violence in the US, says 559 children aged 11 or under have been killed or injured in the United States in gun violence so far this year.

Source: www.bbc.com

October 6, 2015
Bullies Punches Youth Repeatedly At Void Deck While Friends Cheer

Stomper Gerald sent in a video of three bullies punching a youth repeatedly at a void deck.

This incident seems to have occurred at a void deck in Singapore, but the location and time is uncertain.

There has been a rise in the number of bullying incidents lately, namely the recent case at Shuqun Secondary school, where a student was seen slapping his classmates on the head multiple times and hitting them with a book.

In the video, three bullies are seen taking turns to throw punches at a teenager while hurling vulgarities at him.

The teenager didn’t seem to retaliate.

The bullies’ friends were standing around cheering while they were punching the youth.

Stomp is contacting the Stomper for more information.

Source: http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg

September 23, 2015
Shuqun Sec: Bully Counselled, Deeply Regrets His Actions

Shuqun Secondary School has investigated a viral video which shows their male student hitting and slapping other students in class, and said that he has been counselled and “deeply regrets his actions”.

In a video posted on the Facebook page of All Singapore Stuff on Monday (Sep 21) at 9.17am, a male student is seen hitting the head and face of another male student who was seated at his desk. Music can be heard playing the background and the victim did not react.

The alleged bully then took a book and hit the victim repeatedly on the head and did the same to another male student seated nearby. Both victims kept their heads down and did not retaliate.

All of the boys were wearing T-shirts that identified them as students of Shuqun Secondary School in Jurong.

Another male student is seen dancing on top of the teacher’s table while this was happening. No teacher was seen in the video.

The clip has been watched more than 152,000 times as of 3pm on Monday.

STUDENT ‘DEEPLY REGRETS’ HIS ACTIONS

When contacted by Channel NewAsia, Shuqun Secondary School said it “has investigated and is counselling the students involved”. “What might first begin as playfulness could potentially end up hurting others. The student involved has been counselled and he deeply regrets his actions.”

The school also said that it will “continue to work with the students involved on observing appropriate boundaries and behaviour in the future”. The parents of the students involved have been informed of the actions taken by the school.

Shuqun Secondary added: “The school takes all incidents of bullying seriously and has anti-bullying programmes to educate our students and dedicated Character and Citizenship Education lessons to help our students deal with such incidents.”

The school also confirmed that a teacher was present in class when the incident occurred. “The subject teacher was on childcare leave. There was an adjunct teacher in class when the incident happened last Friday. The school has since spoken to the teacher,” Shuqun Secondary said.

In a statement, the Ministry of Education (MOE) also said that it takes “a serious view of bullying in schools and does not condone such behaviour”.

“Schools will investigate and follow up on all cases of ill-discipline and bullying, and will provide counselling and guidance to the students involved,” an MOE spokesperson added.

Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

September 22, 2015
MOE To Investigate Alleged Bullying At Shuqun Secondary In Online Viral Video

The Ministry of Education (MOE) is investigating a case of alleged bullying that happened in a classroom at Shuqun Secondary School in Jurong East.

A 52-second video clip of the incident was first posted on the Facebook page of All Singapore Stuff on Monday (Sept 21) morning.

It has since garnered over 56,000 views and has been shared close to 3,000 times.

It is not clear when the incident took place.

The video, which appears to have been filmed by another student, shows a male student slapping the head of a classmate repeatedly with both hands. He then picks up a book and uses it to hit the victim’s head, before doing the same to another classmate who was seated nearby.

Both victims kept their heads bowed and did not retaliate. Another male student can be seen dancing on the teacher’s table in the background while the bullying was going on.

MOE’s Facebook page has been inundated with requests from netizens to look into the matter. In response, MOE said that it was aware of the incident and was investigating.

It is understood that the school is also conducting investigations and it has been established that a case of bullying had likely occurred.

The Straits Times has contacted MOE and Shuqun Secondary School and is awaiting their official replies.

People who commented on the original post condemned the student’s actions and urged MOE and the school’s authorities to take appropriate action.

Wrote netizen Alice Tan: “It’s so ridiculous, school is a place to study not for bullies. The school should take disciplinary action immediately.”

Source: www.straitstimes.com

September 21, 2015
Chinese-Muslim RSN Regular Allegedly Subjected To Mental Torture Through Racist Abuse, RSN And MINDEF Must Investigate

Admin,

Come across this ig post from a girl

instagram.com/p/6Z7AlsNxqO/

From what she say, her boyfriend is a chinese-muslim convert who is facing a lot of racist bullying on the ship he posted to as a navy regular.

The regular like lost because of the bullying. you read for yourself. guarantee darah up when u read.

I got to a point where enough is enough. How would you feel when your other half complains to you every single day, about the same thing over and over again? I kept on repeating “just endure for five years”. It’s easy for me to say as I’m not in his shoes.

My boyfriend is a regular from the Republic Of Singapore Navy (RSN).

The only Muslim onboard the ship. By being the only Muslim, he is often being discriminated for “betraying” his own race. Instead of calling him by his name, which is stated clearly on his name tag, several people onboard calls him “Muslim, Terrorist, ISIS, Malay, Mat or Kiao Tor (a derogatory term for Malays) etc”.

This has been ongoing for almost half a year since he was posted onboard the ship.

It started when a high ranking officer onboard the ship calls him by his religion instead of his own name.

There is a saying, “If the upper beams is not straight, the lower ones will go aslant”. To out in simpler words, if a leader sets a bad example, it will be followed by his subordinates and true enough, many of the lower ranking crews has started calling my boyfriend by racial or religious remarks.

To top that up, some have even made fun of his religion or made the effort to convince him to go against his religion. E.g – Just eat the pork la, Allah won’t see, Allah won’t know, Allah off day today. -.-? Drinking and eating in front of his face with the intention to disturb him while he’s fasting during ramadhan. Telling him that he is a real Muslim because he’s not circumcised yet. Thus, he’s able to drink,eat pork and all. – Muslims all terrorists, are you gonna bomb the ship? – Malay people are all poor. – Malay people like to steal.

There are other things that he mentioned and complained to me about.But, however, I’m unable to recall every single one of them. These are the few points which I could remember.

The Navy and Mindef must investigate this and punish all the people who bully this Muslim convert, how can they anyhow call him a terrorist and ask him to eat pork? so what he not yet circumcise?

Muis and Minister Yaacob must also give stern warning to everyone, any racist in Singapore will not be free. Navy already not so many Malays or Muslims but after this you think people still want to sign on?

Diver

[Reader Contribution]

August 18, 2015