schoolmates use boy with cerebral palsy as bridge to cross muddy stream (Nova Scotia)

[Demovictory9]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/13/laughing-teens-make-boy-with-cerebral-palsy-lie-muddy-creek-using-him-human-bridge-he-forgives-them/?utm_term=.159592c12e51

‘It’s sickening:’ Boy with cerebral palsy made to lie in muddy creek as human bridge for laughing bullies



At first, 14-year-old Brett Corbett told his mom he was sent to the principal’s office sopping wet because the kids dared him to swim in the creek behind the school, in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.

But then the videos emerged and with them, an appalling story of bullying.

In one video displayed with this article, Corbett, a high school freshman with cerebral palsy, is seen standing in the middle of shallow, murky water while more than a dozen kids stare down at him from the top of a small hill. He lies down on his stomach, keeping his palms flat in the mud to steady himself as the current rushes past him.

And then, a moment later, a girl leaps from the bank, steps on Corbett’s back as if it were a springboard, and launches herself to the other side — turning Corbett into a human bridge.

In another video, the teenagers are laughing hysterically. They yell at Corbett to get back in the water after he stands up. He doesn’t want to

[hlthe2b]

1. As sad as it is to see such cruelty anywhere, somehow seeing Canadian adolescents doing that

makes me even more upset. I really want to think the kindly spirit of Canada will remain forever, but of course they have their problems too.

Even more sad, I immediately assumed this had occurred in the US and would have been far less surprised, though no less outraged.

[Demovictory9]

2. all kinds of things are happening... support for the kid, bullies are apologizing

[hlthe2b]

3. I hope it goes further than with those bullies... If so, then maybe some good comes from it

[Codeine]

4. If my daughter's experience (and my own childhood)

have taught me anything it is that children are all-too-often monstrous and devoid of empathy.