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During the fifth grade when Samantha was 10 years old, she was bullied by a male classmate. She remembers walking through the halls of her elementary school and hearing the bully call out these words:
“Why are you on this earth? You don’t deserve to be alive.”
The bullying followed her every day. “I didn’t want to go to school because I knew he would be there. I was afraid,” says Samantha, now 15.
Weeks into the school year, the harassment and intimidation escalated and turned physical.
“It was usually mental [abuse], but at one point in fifth grade the bully came up to me, and he punched me on the back,” says Samantha quietly. That was the breaking point.
“I had enough,” says Samantha’s mother, Karen. “The verbal and physical abuse needed to stop.”
Samantha and her mother reported the incident to the school and the police resource officer. Another student, who witnessed the physical bullying, stepped forward and also reported the incident to the school. The bully was reprimanded by the officer; however, no further action was taken by Samantha’s school.
Although the daily torment ended, Samantha’s respite was temporary.
The bully’s verbal aggression resurfaced, and it started to impact Samantha’s schoolwork, self-esteem and overall health. Karen says her daughter exhibited many of the warning signs of being bullied — depressed mood, physical ailments and school avoidance.
“It started small with her belly hurting. Then she didn’t want to go to school,” says Karen. “Samantha stopped doing homework and spent as much time in the nurse’s office as she did in classes.”
Samantha missed 30 days of school that year due to bullying.
Finding a safe haven after being bullied
To help her daughter get the tools she needed to manage the effects of being bullied, Karen reached out to the Boston Children’s Hospital Bullying and Cyberbullying Prevention and Advocacy Collaborative (BACPAC).
Samantha talks with Dr. Peter Raffalli about her experience being bullied.
Samantha and Karen met with the BACPAC team, including pediatric neurologist and BACPAC Program Director, Dr. Peter Raffalli. Samantha shared her story of victimization, learned skills to combat bullying and was given tools to promote self-empowerment.
“Samantha spoke for two hours, and she told the team about the bullying. She was happy that someone who wasn’t a loved one validated she was being bullied, and it wasn’t her fault,” Karen recalls. “As she spoke, I could see the burden begin to lift from her shoulders.”