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9/14/2013 12:11:48 AM
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12 year old girl jumps off building after being bullied.
[url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mother-rebecca-sedwick-bullying-led-girl-death-article-1.1453836]Article[/url]
[url=http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/09/13/nr-pkg-ganim-sedwick-bullying-suicide.cnn.html]video[/url]
Whenever I see something like this I get upset and smack my head at the same time. I know bullying is very hard on a girl her age but there are other options other than suicide. I wish she had nicer friends but I guess girls her age are just nasty people.
Is abusing someone supposed to be fun? What are your thoughts on this and what should happen to the bullies?
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Part of the problem is that, even at 12, the brain is nowhere near fully developed. It doesn't have any really effective capacity to see the big picture (which is one reason why teens tend to do stupid things; they don't think of the consequences). As a result, the kid doesn't see this as something that will eventually pass or be stopped, but an event that will occupy the rest of their life. Then they don't fully comprehend their choices or the results of said choices, and combined with anything like depression (that could possibly lead to bullying in the first place, an easy target), the kid jumps off a bridge. It's sad, really
