Sickening videos of kids being beaten and bullied flood social media — leaving their lives in ruinBy Selim Algar
August 18, 2023
The kids aren’t all right.
Brutal videos of schoolchildren fighting and getting beaten have exploded in popularity online — and therapists warn of long-lasting damage to those featured in the disturbing clips.
Barbaric footage depicts campus violence across the nation from prim suburbs to troubled inner cities and students of all genders, some shockingly barely out of kindergarden.
The sickening fight videos of kids socking, stomping and cursing each other are recorded on campus in bathrooms, classrooms and buses — all places where adults are supposed to be supervising.
Hundreds, possibly thousands, of Instagram, Tik Tok, Snapchat and other social media channels dedicated to showing the violence and mayhem have sprung up.
Many are aimed at specific schools. One page devoted to a Texas high school seen by The Post featured a startling 72 fight clips posted over the course of a year before it was taken down — an equivalent of two for every week class was in session.
In many cases, anonymous orchestrators are constantly soliciting and receiving fresh content, making it exceptionally hard for schools or authorities to police.
With many of the beatdowns resulting from bullying, therapists said child victims suffer intense shame and embarrassment from having some of the worst moments of their childhood immortalized online for all to see.
Some of them, psychologists warned, resort to ending their own lives, as in the case of 11-year-old New Jersey schoolgirl Felicia LoAlbo-Melendez, who was found on Feb 6.
In Florida, a girl of similar age was recently forced to flee the state entirely after her beating was posted online, spurring relentless mockery.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/08/18/school-bullying-and-fight-videos-flood-social-media/
