Reply #8: Well, it's all of a piece, isn't it?

[MADem]

I just don't understand where the parents were in all of this. You'd think they would advocate for their minor child. I can't imagine that a police report would be ignored if the parents went down to the station and demanded action.

I wonder if this teen tried to handle this herself and not involve the parents. There is something just not...complete about this story.

Would you stand by while your minor child was being bullied or ridiculed at school as a consequence of her sending naked pics to some lad? Would you tell the kid to buck up and get over it if this was happening? I think I'd take away the little fart's cameraphone, first, give her a crappy Tracfone, ground her.... and be in the principal's office, with a lawyer, the next day, after I filed a formal police report. There wouldn't be any opportunity for continued harassment or bullying. It would be one strike, and I'd be at that principal's throat.

That's how I'd be handling the situation. A kid suing the town four years later? Why did this go on for all this time?

Like I said--there's something amiss here. I just don't know quite what.