The real consequences of bullying

By JEFF ENGELHARDT - jengelhardt@shawmedia.com and CHELSEA McDOUGALL - cmcdougall@shawmedia.com

Created: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:30 a.m. CDT

SYCAMORE – Alyssa Pawola does not see much truth in the old “sticks and stones” phrase.

Because words can hurt, she said, and as past history has shown, words can even drive someone to take their own life.

Whether it is a 13-year-old Missouri girl hanging herself after being cyberbullied by the mother of a classmate or a Rutgers University freshman jumping off the George Washington Bridge in New York City after a secretly recorded video of him kissing a man is posted on the Internet, the new age of bullying can have deadly consequences.

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