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Rebecca Ann Sedwick (2000–2013), age 12, was an American middle school student who died of suicide by jumping from a concrete silo tower [53] on September 9, 2013, due to bullying. Sedwick was a seventh grader at Crystal Lake Middle School in Lakeland, Florida. Sedwick was cyberbullied and bullied in person for one and a half years.
Oakville Middle School opened in 1962 and shares a campus with Wohlwend Elementary. About 700 students attend the school, originating from 3 different elementary schools. The school's mascot is the Spartan, and the school feeds until Oakville High School. Currently, Oakville Middle's eight grade academy is closed because not enough students ...
The Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis occurred on Friday, May 16, 1986 in Cokeville, Wyoming, United States, when former town marshal David Young, 43, and his wife Doris Young, 47, [1] took 154 hostages – 136 children and 18 adults – at Cokeville Elementary School. Transporting ten firearms and an improvised gasoline bomb, the ...
Ryan Patrick Halligan (December 18, 1989 – October 7, 2003) was an American student who died by suicide at the age of 13 after being bullied by his classmates in person and cyberbullying online. According to the Associated Press, Halligan was repeatedly sent homophobic instant messages, and was "threatened, taunted and insulted incessantly". [1]
St. Mildred's-Lightbourn School (commonly referred to as just St. Mildred's and abbreviated to SMLS) is an independent all-girls school in Oakville, Ontario, Canada with approximately 550 students from Junior Kindergarden to Grade 12. The Junior school includes girls from JK to grade five. The middle school includes grade 6, 7, and 8.
May 1999. Port Huron, Michigan, United States. A 12-year-old, 13-year-old and two 14-year-olds, all boys, planned to hold up a gun store and then attack Holland Woods Middle School. Once there, they planned to rape some of the girls and shoot as many as 154 targets which they had drawn up on a list.
Suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer. James T. Rodemeyer (March 21, 1997 – September 18, 2011) was an American teenager from Amherst, New York who was known for his activism against homophobia and his videos on YouTube to help victims of homophobic bullying. Rodemeyer died by suicide on September 18, 2011, after having been a victim of homophobic ...
Sentence. 6 years in prison (reduced from 13 years) [6][7] Amanda Michelle Todd (November 27, 1996 – October 10, 2012) [8][9] was a 15-year-old Canadian student and victim of cyberbullying who hanged herself at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. A month before her death, Todd posted a video on YouTube in which she used a series of ...