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School bullying incident reported in New Taipei

A female junior high student was beaten by a group of classmates for allegedly careless interaction with other students.

According to the girl's parents, their daughter's classmates asked her to see them in a dark lane after school. She was later hit by over five students, who also slapped her face one after another for over 30 minutes.

The young girl had bruises on several parts of her body and her nose bled after the beating.

The victim was seriously traumatized after the assault, according to her parents, who accused the school of passiveness in handling the malicious attack.

“We will file a lawsuit against the abusers,” said the parents.

Studies released by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in mid-March showed that almost 30,000 middle school students were victims of schoolyard bullying within the past semester.

The results of a nationwide survey showed that almost 10 percent of those surveyed had either been physically or mentally bullied and 13 percent of respondents admitted to have physically or verbally bullied another student.

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Comments

May 2, 2011 CURTISAKBAR@

Bring the 'cane' into the school system. Public floggings for those bullies. See how they like being bullied and humiliated in public. I was a semi-bad boy in school coz I knew there was no real punishment for mischievous acts but I had the intelligence to appear like the teacher's pet.

May 6, 2011 eco.danner@

This is not "bullying", but a clear case of criminal assault. The guilty students should be prosecuted fully under the law.
I know school yard bullies are a big topic in Taiwan now. One child being mean to another has become national headlines. But we need to clarify what we mean. Calling a case of assault "bullying" only serves to minimize the seriousness of the attack.