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A video of four seventh-grade boys mercilessly taunting a 68-year-old bus monitor in New York state that went viral has turned the victim into an international fundraising juggernaut and opened her tormentors to an onslaught of threats and abuse.
From around the world, small donations for Karen Klein poured into the crowd-funding site indiegogo.com, at one point crashing the site and pulling in a staggering $443,057 by early Friday.
At the same time, police in the Rochester suburb of Greece, N.Y., were stepping up patrols around the houses of the middle-schoolers accused of taunting her. Police didn't name the boys but their purported identities leaked out on the Web.
Greece Police Capt. Steve Chatterton was compelled to warn against vigilante justice. One boy received more than a thousand death threats and commenters online were clear - and sometimes venomous - in their desire that the boys be severely punished.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/22/3670607/online-video-of-ny-bullying-stirs.html
KansDem
(28,498 posts)I hope their parents had a good talking-over with them about this...
Dokkie
(1,688 posts)$100b so she can have a good retirement. No amount of money that can make up for mistreatment they inflicted to that poor poor woman
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)The problem obviously isn't one bad apple, or even a busload of them.
We americans are incapable of seeing the big picture.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)I'll be watching for it to get to her.