Posted on 03/06/2013 1:32:39 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
A 12-year-old boy who died after a schoolyard attack was punched two or three times in the face and refused to fight back, investigators confirmed yesterday.
An initial investigation into the tragic death of Bailey O'Neill, from Darby Township, Pennsylvania, has confirmed claims by his parents that he was the innocent victim of bullies and an honors student who wanted to avoid trouble.
Bailey suffered a concussion, broken nose and other injuries on January 10 at Darby Township School when two boys jumped him in recess - with one pushing him and the other landing the blows...
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The boy who wouldn't fight back: Teen, 12, who died in schoolyard bully attack refused to defend himself because he 'didn't want to get in trouble'
We have to go to Great Britain to get news.
How much trouble could he have gotten into? The boys who assaulted him originally received a two day suspension.
Was this two White boys ganging up on a little Black boy who wouldn't defend himself.
Says it all right there....good job Mom and Dad.
Just the opposite. Breitbart has this story also.
Junior version of the “knockout game”
The idea of turning the other cheek can’t possibly mean let yourself be killed, there has to be a couple of assumptions built into that one and clearly the assumptions did not hold in this case.
Leftists would love all of us to become sheep that won’t fight back,
and they see these racist attacks as “cosmically deserved” as well.
schools become more similar to prisons every day.
surprised he wasn’t “shanked”.
I remember the very first fight I got into as a kid. I was about ten and there was a guy that used to pick on me. One day I got brave and punched him square in the mouth.
To this day I can still remember the look of surprise and fear on his face. Needless to say, school monitors (teachers) came rushing over to break us up, accusing me of damaging his precious little face.
I was sent home for the day, after a lecture from the school nurse about how mean I was, told Dad what happened and got a atta boy.
This was in 1971
It’s not. Turning the other cheek is about getting bad people out of your life. Give them what they want and move on.
God supports self-defense.
They jump you with 5-10 of their friends and usually starts with a sucker punch, followed by everyone punching, kicking, using whatever is available for a club.
Too many public school systems are like thirteen year prison sentences in a maximum security facility.
I have a hard time believing that an 11 year old can punch another 11 year old to death, unless their is some underlying condition also involved.
I read that he started having seizures a few days later and went to the hospital where he was put into a drug induced coma to stop them. He died there.
Well, I sure hope those boys were expelled, not just suspended a few days and let back in the same school?
I don't think anybody has actually established that the punches from the 11 year old caused the seizures that killed him days later.
It's not impossible, I guess, but I'd wait until an autopsy confirmed it.
Eleven year old boys have been punching each other since arms evolved. It's not nice, but it's not generally fatal either.
I suspect that the police and DA will be involved now.
The attackers might have been in the same grade,
but far older.
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