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Boyfriend of Adriana Kuch can’t stop crying, re-watching bullying video
New York Post ^ | 2-10-23 | Steven Vago, Natalie O'Neill

Posted on 02/11/2023 6:33:19 PM PST by Tired of Taxes

BAYVILLE, New Jersey — The heartbroken boyfriend of bullied New Jersey teen Adriana Kuch can’t stop crying and re-watching an online video of the cruel attack that led to her suicide, his mom and Adriana’s dad told The Post on Friday.

Jason Lopez, 16, is haunted by the thought he might have been able to prevent Adriana, 14, from taking her own life after the humiliating beating she suffered at Central Regional High School in Berkeley Township, said a worried Wendy Lopez, 50.

“He’ll wake up in the middle of the night screaming and crying,” Lopez told The Post, adding he feels a devastating spiral of grief and guilt.

“[Adriana] called him the night before [her death] and he wished that he picked up the phone and he didn’t,” Lopez recounted.

“He called her back five minutes later and she never called back..That’s the last time [they spoke].,” she added.

The young lovebirds had been dating for nearly two months when Kuch was brutally bullied as the pair walked down a hallway on campus Feb. 1.

A video of the attack was later posted online, further tormenting the teen, and she took her own life two days later.

“[Jason] said to me that it would have been nice to grow up when me and his father did in the 80s and 90s, when you don’t have this extra online stuff to go along with being in high school,” Lopez told The Post.

“He just wished Adriana had told him more because she kinda kept it all to herself.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: adrianakuch; assault; bullying; cesspool; feralteens; jaylahahn; newjersey; suicide; teens
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To: GOPJ

Or, we get Paul Kersey in the movie Death Wish


21 posted on 02/11/2023 7:20:23 PM PST by Fai Mao (Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Unless you are a black belt or a pro MMA, there is only so much one person can do to protect somebody from multiple attackers.


22 posted on 02/11/2023 7:21:02 PM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: Tired of Taxes

It’s so heartbreaking to watch repeatedly those who are devastated by evil acts receive no justice.


23 posted on 02/11/2023 7:23:13 PM PST by dragonblustar (WEF = World Economic Fascists. )
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Lord of the Flies. And it has nothing to do with race.


24 posted on 02/11/2023 7:26:25 PM PST by livius
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To: Tired of Taxes

There needs to be a wave of firings of administrators and teachers at district and school level who created the environment that resulted in this chain of events happening.


25 posted on 02/11/2023 7:43:03 PM PST by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: Arcadian Empire

There needs to be a wave of death penalties without plea bargaining.


26 posted on 02/11/2023 7:49:25 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Tired of Taxes
The big red thing on the left. THAT is the problem. There have been DOZENS of suicides because of social media. PLEASE keep your kids off it as long as you can


27 posted on 02/11/2023 8:01:40 PM PST by montag813
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Sadly, they are fine with it. Until their own ox is gored.


28 posted on 02/11/2023 8:10:17 PM PST by vivenne
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To: dragonblustar

The net effect of this is learned helplessnes and dehumanization of others. We are in grave danger as a society. So many brainwashed, lost souls.


29 posted on 02/11/2023 8:14:06 PM PST by vivenne
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To: Tired of Taxes

“...it would have been nice to grow up when me and his father did in the 80s and 90s, when you don’t have this extra online stuff to go along with being in high school,”


Maybe 15–20 years ago, parents were told that to keep their kids safe online, to have the computer in the family room, not in the kid’s bedroom. That way everyone could see what was going on. Now 4th and 5th graders are coming to school with smartphones which are the equivalent of computers at the turn of the century with virtually no parental supervision.

This is not good for anyone.


30 posted on 02/11/2023 8:18:16 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: metmom

That’s the problem in society today. Everything is geared towards delaying the growing up process.


31 posted on 02/11/2023 8:22:34 PM PST by vivenne
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To: Jonty30

Stun Gun and Mace


32 posted on 02/11/2023 9:06:15 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: vivenne

But in a way kids are growing up faster than ever before with technology and the indoctrination at school and media. Kids can’t just be kids anymore. Who would have thought 20 years ago that someday 5-10 year old kids would be changing their gender?


33 posted on 02/11/2023 9:10:38 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: montag813
Agree. The girl was 14. At that age she shouldn't have had a smart phone or a boyfriend. That may be an unpopular take, but there it is.

Of course, that doesn't excuse the animals who beat her. They are creations of the dysfunctional culture as well.
34 posted on 02/11/2023 9:16:37 PM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: PGR88

Back then we were raised by our parents and our neighbors. (You screwed up a few blocks from home, your mom knew about it before you could pedal home.)

Now kids are raised by computers/cell phones.

This ain’t gonna end well.


35 posted on 02/11/2023 9:29:00 PM PST by lizma2
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To: fieldmarshaldj

IMHO, they will regret putsching for what they’ve asked for..


36 posted on 02/11/2023 9:30:44 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Tired of Taxes

That part does not fit the narrative. Hence it is never to be mentioned.


37 posted on 02/11/2023 9:31:38 PM PST by sport
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To: sheik yerbouty

I see zero evidence that what should happen will ever happen.


38 posted on 02/11/2023 9:42:56 PM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a CONSERVATIVE dictator to return it to a Constitutional Republic. )
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To: dfwgator

That was no bullying, that was flat out felonious assault.


That was what I was thinking when reading some the comments about other events and attempts to ‘stop bullying’.

‘Anti-Bullying’ has been used to inflict actual political and ideological bullying on children, while at the same time the schools are allowing actual assaults, or as here, suspending the victims (there are other articles reporting Kuch was suspended for fighting after being beaten, though non-specific whether it was this time or a previous time).


39 posted on 02/11/2023 11:14:14 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Tired of Taxes

The tormented teen was driven to suicide because she was embarrassed footage of the beatdown spread rapidly on TikTok and Snapchat, Kuch told The Daily Mail.

“She was so embarrassed that they jumped her. She would say, ‘I don’t want to be made fun of,’” he told the outlet.

“It was like she was attacked twice. It used to be you’d go to school, get bullied and then you left. But now you come home and you keep getting bullied — they still keep picking at you home,” he said.

One of the teenage girls responsible for the bloody on-campus beating Feb. 1 continues to churn out disrespectful social media posts even after Adriana’s heartbreaking death, Kuch told The Post..

“[She] has still been posting stuff even after Adrianna’s death on Snapchap,” hesaid, the bullies’ parents should put an end to the tech-based torture.


https://patch.com/new-jersey/berkeley-nj/we-want-justice-central-students-protest-after-classmates-death

Central students and families say that Kuch is not the only victim of bullying. Last April, a student was jumped in the school cafeteria after experiencing an injury that left her unable to fight back, her mother previously told Patch. Read more: NJ Star Wrestler Jayla Hahn Jumped At School, Now Fears Going Back

Others shared similar stories with Patch, claiming they or people they knew were bullied and the district did nothing about it.

The same goes for the four girls involved in the fight, students say. Each received 10 days suspension - including Kuch. But this is not enough for those demanding justice.

“We want them to be prosecuted,” Meredith Demuro, a freshman at the school, said.


40 posted on 02/11/2023 11:27:21 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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