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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Bullies Bind Teen Girl In Plastic Wrap From Above Her Chin To Waist So She COULDN’T Get Free

Bullies bind teen girl in plastic wrap from above her chin to waist so she COULDN’T get free!


Melanie Conn, 13, was bound with plastic wrap from above her chin to her waist by two boys as she waited for her school bus at an Ormond Beach stop. Conn and her mother showed the plastic wrap she had been bound in.

A 13-year-old girl is still shaken after two bullies wound her up in plastic wrap last week on her way to school.
Middle school student Melanie Conn was waiting at the bus stop in Ormond Beach, Fla., on Thursday when two boys who have threatened her before cornered her and wound Saran wrap around her body, circling her ten to fifteen times — so tightly she couldn’t move her arms.
"It was kind of scary,” she told Orlando's WKMG-TV. “But then, shocking at the same time."
Conn said she was bound tightly in the plastic wrap from her waist up to her face, above her chin, so tightly she couldn’t move her arms.
"It's childish; it's at the same time very scary," her mother Holley Angerson-Conn told the TV station. "This isn't a joke. This could have become very serious, if they would have had a little bit more and no one had been able to get it off of her."
While Angerson-Conn blames the school for not taking action against the bullies sooner, even after a school staffer on the bus heard them taunt her daughter, the school district maintains it is handling the situation and has disciplined both boys involved.
"Volusia County Schools take every reported incident of bullying seriously, fully investigate them and if substantiated, takes disciplinary action," District spokeswoman Nancy Walt said in a statement to WKMG.
Meanwhile, the mother of one of the bullies acknowledged and apologized for their action, though she declined to be identified in an interview with the TV station.
"I feel that the boys were wrong for doing it," she said, though she claimed her son had also been a victim.
"He's been harassed all the other school years," she said. "That's why I don't understand why he's doing it."
She claims her son was only given a 10-day suspension from the school bus, while Wait told WKMG that the girl will no longer have to share the bus with them.
The ida that this could happen again has rattled Conn and her mother, who want more to be done.
"My daughter still has to go to that bus stop every day," Angerson-Conn said. "Is this just the beginning?What's next?"
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