MAUREEN CALLAHAN: A girl bullied to death, her father maligned by HER school!

Where have all the adults gone?

View video of 14-year-old Adriana Kuch being brutally assaulted in the hallway of her own high school; seeing her crouched in a fetal position as three other students harass, drag and beat her while another student screams off camera. , ‘Fuck it! She fuck that bitch! – is to see the confidence of thugs in America today.

Once upon a time, guys like this would attack off campus, secretly, without witnesses. Now they openly attack in cafeterias and classrooms, on school buses and on social media, knowing that administrators will do nothing.

After Kuch was assaulted, and it took 40 seconds for an adult to intervene, these cheeky kids hitting anyway, her attack was posted on social media: TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram.

Two days later, Adriana committed suicide. A message sent just hours before of her mocked her for ‘drip’ blood and being ‘yelled at’.

This poor girl already had a number of stressors and risk factors: her mother, who was battling addiction, had died when she was little, and her father was worried about Adriana vaping marijuana. But it seems this beating, and the endless social media humiliation that followed, broke her young spirit.

“She was so embarrassed that they attacked her,” said her father, Michael Kuch. ‘She was like, ‘I don’t want to be made fun of.’ It was like she was attacked twice. Before you went to school, they bullied you and then you left. But now you come home and you’re still being bullied, you’re still being bullied at home.’

Immediately after the attack, the school suspended the offenders involved but did not call the police. Instead, Michael Kuch brought his battered and bloody daughter to the police station himself.

After Adriana’s suicide hit the headlines, the school’s superintendent, Triantafillos Parlapanides, posted on social media that in this case, ‘there are two sides to every story’.

Is it an adult responsible for the education and care of adolescents? This is scary. No wonder the bullies at his school hit, smash, slap, and insult with impunity. No wonder the bullied feels even more helpless: the adults in charge won’t stand up for the victims!

On Friday, the day of Adriana’s wake, Parlapanides sent a series of emails to DailyMail.com in which he appeared to blame Adriana and her father for this tragedy. Responding to a question about whether the school had offered Adriana any services, as it is believed that she had been bullied for quite some time before her suicide, this guilt-switching, cowardly, cowardly deviant wrote: “After the suicide of his mother, since her father was having an affair [sic] at the end of his sixth grade. Her father married the woman he had an affair with and moved her into her house. Her grades and her choices decreased in 7th and 8th grade. We offered her drug rehab and mental health services 5 times, but her father refused each time.’

Wow. Fish, as they say, rots from the head. This guy should be fired immediately and should never be allowed to work with children again. He breached Adriana’s private health information and essentially framed her father for her mother’s suicide.

As of Thursday, the four girls allegedly involved in the attack at Central New Jersey Regional High School have been charged; three for assault in the fourth degree and one for disorderly conduct. Before that, her father said, the school did almost nothing: no investigation. No social media following.

It’s fair to assume that Central Regional, like many schools across the United States, has no real rules against cyber bullying. Why would they? There is no federal law that prohibits it, even as the CDC reported in October 2022 that one in five high school students reported being bullied on campus in the previous year. More than one in six reported cyberbullying. Self-reports are highest in middle schools at 33%, then high schools at 30%.

Where are our educators? our administrators? Our elected officials?

Make no mistake: cyberbullying among children and adolescents is a public health crisis, just like the angry young American, just like the school shooter, just like the post-COVID learning and socialization gap , much like the awakened orthodoxy that every boy or man who questions their gender should have access to toilets, changing rooms, shelters, women’s and girls’ prisons, whether girls and women feel safe or not, it is too.

In May 2021, a 15-year-old boy raped a classmate in the bathroom of a school for transgender people. He assaulted that young woman in a bathroom. Later, a teacher testified that she saw two sets of feet under the cubicle door, but she did nothing.

On Friday, the day of Adriana’s wake, Parlapanides (above) sent a series of emails to DailyMail.com in which he appeared to blame Adriana and her father for this tragedy.

Michael Kuch brought his beaten and bloody daughter to the police station himself.

I did nothing! Scott Smith, the girl’s father, said she was held to the ground and attacked at that position. Why was an adult teacher afraid to knock on the door? To shout ‘What’s going on in there?’ Or ‘Get out of there now and let me see what you’re doing!’?

That school superintendent, Scott Ziegler, also did nothing. In fact, he claimed there was no record of that assault, or a similar sexual assault committed by the same boy against another teenage girl, later that year at another Virginia school.

For campaigning for justice, for demanding that the school board tell the truth about sexual assaults in girls’ bathrooms and what transgender politics may have to do with it, Scott Smith was arrested at a school board meeting, dragged by the floor until his shirt rolled off. up to his chest, ending with a bloody mouth.

Humiliated.

That’s what parents defending young female students in America get today: shaming as anti-trans, fanatics, MAGA or MAGA-adjacent, idiots who can’t fathom liberal undertones.

Michael Kuch, speaking after his daughter was bullied into committing suicide, is maligned by the school superintendent, who took it upon himself to air his private family matters.

And look at the lack of coverage of whistleblower Jamie Reed in much of the liberal media. Here is a 42-year-old woman who identifies as ‘a queer woman, politically to the left of Bernie Sanders’, married to a trans man, who worked for four years at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. .Louis.

She is the first American gender clinic worker to come forward and say that children are being harmed by medical gender transition.

You’d think his explosive essay, published yesterday in the Free Press, would make headlines everywhere. Not so, despite dire warnings from him.

“She was so embarrassed that they attacked her,” said her father, Michael Kuch. ‘She was like, ‘I don’t want to be made fun of.’

“What is happening to the children,” Reed wrote, “is morally and medically appalling.” With little more than claims of gender confusion and two visits with an in-house therapist, these kids, he says, are on puberty blockers that can result in lifelong sterilization or increased cancer risks or who knows what, because we don’t have longitudinal studies. . The teenagers Reed saw, most of them virgins, were approved for surgeries many regret. They had no idea what awaited their minds and bodies, but they trusted the adults in this facility.

Reed reproduced an email from an angry parent:

‘Please note that I am revoking my consent to this course of medical treatment. Grades are down, there’s been an inpatient behavioral health visit, and now he’s on five different medications. . . [Redacted] he is a shell of his former self, riddled with anxiety. Who knows if it’s because of the hormone blockers or the other medications. I revoke my consent.

For alerting us to this public health emergency, Reed says she expects to feel embarrassed and out of a job. “I am putting myself at serious personal and professional risk,” Reed wrote. “Almost everyone in my life advised me to keep my head down. But in good conscience I can’t.

America’s children need more adults like Jamie Reed, Michael Kuch, and Scott Smith: willing to stand up for the most vulnerable, the most at risk, to push back this ultra-woke world where black and white, good and evil are increasingly archaic ideas. We cannot tolerate bullies, whether they are kids in class or teachers who look the other way or school shooters whose aberrational behaviors give plenty of warning (most recently, a six-year-old who intentionally shot his teacher) or trans activists who equate concern and questioning with prejudice and hate.

We are failing our children. It’s time for the adults in the room to grow up.