11 year old special needs boy pushed down stairs at school by bully and now paralyzed?

Question

This has been eating me all day. I can't work out or eat.

Has video and picture of the boy

http://wbztv.com/local/lynn.bullying.bully.2.688600.html

Answer 1

It is unclear what actually happened.  The police investigation is still going on.  The parents apparently didn't report the incident to the police when it happened, if the news article is right.

Even if the Mathew was pushed, it sounds like a freak outcome; not the usual result when somebody is pushed down stairs.

I understand that sometimes a story in the news will grab your heart.  For some reason it gets to you.  But the fact is, we don't know what happened and I don't know whether it could have been prevented.  Well, time will tell.  The doctors say that he could recover.

Answer 2

Sue the school, punish the bully and his parents.

Answer 3

I hear you.  It's a horrible, sickening story.

It doesn't matter if it's a "freak outcome" or not.  Pushing someone down the stairs is wrong and the bully in question should be punished for it. That fact is not in dispute in the media or elsewhere: A bully pushed him down the stairs.  That is all I need to know.  

And since this bully is not learning right from wrong at home, his parents should bear some responsibility. Perhaps having to pay all the medical bills for the poor paralyzed, special needs chlid will make them wake up and pay attention to their little burgeoning bully before someone pushes him down the stairs.

Answer 4

This is a police matter, or should be. And the parents could bring legal action against the bully--for money. Sometimes that's all a bully can understand.