Sunday, October 17, 2010

How far will Bullying go...?

The online article, "Taunted on Internet, Dying Girl Gets Shopping Spree," was not found on a newspapers website but could be located on the homepages of yahoo and aol.com. This piece was emotional and makes you wonder what is wrong with people in this world? The article was about a young girl who is only seven years old and is dieing of Huntington's Disease which her mother passed away from last year. This child is being bullied online and in person by her neighbors across the street, which are not children but adults. They have posted online images of this child with a skull and crossbones or in the arms of the Grim Reaper and have driven around her grandmothers home carrying a coffin in their truck. The women claims that "It burns Rebecca Roses's a-- raw for me to make fun of her dead daughter on that page," as in the feud that she had going on with the child's mother is in her mind continuing even though the mother is dead. The families had apparently been feuding for the past few years. This article is exemplifying just how far bullying has gone in this country. Not only are kids and teens bullying each other but now adults are joining in with torturing sick kids, it makes you wonder what is going on with today's society and will it stop?

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