When 15-year-old Amber moved to a new school in Queensland, the bullying started almost immediately.
The threats and bullying were relentless.
After suffering death threats and even physical attacks from her peers, Amber was hospitalised for three months after becoming malnourished as a result of severe anxiety and depression.
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Earlier this week, the severity of the bullying on Amber was exposed. In a disturbing video from Snapchat that has since been shared widely online, two of Amber’s former school friends egged on the teenage girl to kill herself in a horrific act of bullying.
“If I f*cking see you Amber, you are gonna probably drown,” one of the girls said in the video.
“Everyone f*cking hates you and everyone wants to kill you,” one girl yells in the video.
The other girl then threatened to stomp on Amber.
Now, Amber’s parents Michelle and Aaron Panozza are demanding greater action on bullying.
“If that was my children on that video, I would probably take them to the police station myself, because that’s unacceptable behaviour,” Michelle told A Current Affair.
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A boy tried to bully my son physically. He was much smaller than my son, but we taught our boys not to get physical.
After the second incident my husband and I confronted the boy outside school in front of his dad and said. You have now been warned if you touch our son again, he will fight back and we will lay a charge with the police. My husband made sure my son now how to defend himself after the incident. The school contacted us and tried to threaten us for approaching the boy. We said his dad was with him and we meant every word. The boy backed down and that settled it.
Bullies respond best to strength.
Sending you lots of love Amber
As a teacher, my advice is to go to the police and file charges. The punishments that schools can hand out are too soft and these kids need to understand that what they are doing is illegal.