Father says 11-year-old son jumped from school bus to get away from bullies
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Publishing date: May 10, 2021 • 2 days ago • 2 minute read • Dion Murphy said his son’s “desperate attempt” to escape happened last Wednesday when the bus was stopped at a turn lane and he leaped out of the bus’s right rear window onto a passing pickup truck before rolling onto the highway. Photo by SCREEN GRAB /FOX5 ATLANTA
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School bullying reached new heights in Georgia recently.
The father of an 11-year-old boy, a student at Youth Middle School in Walton County, told FOX5 Atlanta that his son jumped out of a school bus and onto a passing pickup truck to evade being beaten by bullies.
May 11, 2021
An 11-year-old Georgia boy is recovering from injuries after he jumped through the window of a moving school bus to get away from a bully, his father says.
Atlanta resident Dion Murphy says older kids at Youth Middle School have been picking on his son all year and last week, the the boy finally had enough of it. One student jumped in his face, Murphy says. He was pushing him against the window, and when he fell, the other student took his shoe. And in a desperate attempt to escape it, he jumped out the window.
The boy bounced off a passing pickup truck and landed on the highway, suffering a concussion and a broken elbow, authorities say. Murphy says he s approached school officials about the problem in the past, but they failed to do anything. That s why I m so upset, he says. Because the school neglected the bullying act and did not do anything about it. They took it as horse-play, but my son could have lost his life.
By Bill Galluccio
May 10, 2021
The father of an 11-year-old boy who was injured when he jumped out of a school bus says his son was being bullied. Luckily, the bus was stopped in a turn lane when the boy decided to jump out the window on May 5. He landed on a passing pick-up truck but then fell off and onto the highway.
The boy, who was not identified, suffered a broken elbow and a concussion.
The boy s father,
Dion Murphy, told
Murphy even met with school officials in March, but nothing was done to stop the bullying. After his son was injured, Murphy met with the school again, and they reviewed surveillance footage of numerous bullying incidents on the bus.
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