I’m a victim too: video bully
21 Mar
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The Sydney schoolboy who has become a focus of global bullying outrage says he was provoked into the schoolyard fight in which he was thrown heavily to the ground by a bigger, older student.
The Year 7 student, who appears to be the antagonist in an ugly video that has gone viral on the internet, told the Seven Network he was also a victim of bullies.
“I got bullied at primary school,” he told Seven last night.
His appearance on TV last night followed a Channel Nine interview with the older boy on Sunday, which child psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg called “reprehensible”, warning of the potentialfor further victimisation and self harm.
The Year Seven student is depicted as the bully in the video, throwing punches at a Year 12 boy, who then picks him up and throws him heavily to the ground.
The Chifley College student also says the bigger boy, 16, had bullied him prior to the altercation and threw the first punch.
“He abused me first … he was like ‘get to class, you idiot’, all that sort of stuff,” the boy told Seven.
The boy’s father said he was worried about how the attention was affecting his son.
“(It has been) very hard, unbelievable,” the father said.
The boy, dubbed a “rat” on some online forums, said he was not really sorry about teasing the older boy because, he claimed, the older boy started it.
And his mother said she was shocked at the video showing her son thrown to the ground.
“My son could have been a paraplegic out of it for starters,” she said.
Meanwhile, the older boy’s father says he does not think it’s safe for his son to return to Chifley College.
“That is the attitude I got, you know, he has to learn to live with it. You know, be a man, man-up, whatever,” the father told the Nine Network.
“He is not going back there … it is not a safe place for him.”
The older boy said that he wouldn’t accept an apology from the younger student as “it’s just going to happen again”.
“It doesn’t really mean anything and he might just get his friends on me,” he said.
He also said that the school had suspended someone who had bullied him in the past but that the bullies just come back and do it again.
He said he had been bullied since he was in second grade, with children going as far as duct-taping him to a pole and teasing him about his weight.
On the now-famous video, the older boy advances on the smaller boy, who had repeatedly had hit him, picks him up and throws him onto concrete.
The younger boy received a grazed knee in the incident.
- AAP
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/im-a-victim-too-video-bully-20110321-1c3u9.html
