Amanda Todds.

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For those wondering where the adults were I'm remembering Tempest Smith. Though the bullying wasn't this cruel (I don't recall any actual violence, for example) it was still horrible, and her diary revealed the teachers saw it and did nothing, which was found after she hung herself.

The amazing and somewhat hopeful thing to me was when she killed herself the kids felt extreme guilt making memorials for her that expressed regret for what they'd done. And the reaction of the school faculty? To try to make the kids feel less guilty "because it served no useful purpose." (Though I'm sure if it had been Wiccans bullying a Christian to suicide then their feelings would've been very different...but then that would've never been tolerated in the first place.) They not only told the kids in an assembly they weren't to blame (and didn't accept blame themselves for watching it happen while doing nothing) but in their cluelessness appealed to the public to make the kids feel better. I don't know how many kids the adults convinced but plenty of her tormentors helped the victim's mom in suing the school and I think in helping with the foundation having sworn to never bully again or let others do so.

Just goes to show that sometimes kids really do have a better grasp of right & wrong than adults (and that Christianity doesn't make people good).