Sawyer Rosenstein was a 12 year old boy and on the day of May 16, 2006 his whole entire life would be different. He went to Eric Smith Middle School in New Jersey. Another student thought that it would be ok to punch him in the stomach. Because he punched him in the stomack that sent a blood clot to his spine. That paralyzed him from the waist down only a week after that happened. He is now a college student and in a wheelchair and has been in one for the last six years. His family has now recieved a settlement for over four million dollars. The attorney of the family said that this case is really unique because he has not ever heard of another bullying case that got a large settlement just based off personal injury.
“This was a three-pronged case,” he told ABC News. “We had to show that his paralysis was a result of the punch. We also found that the school knew Sawyer had been regularly bullied, and didn’t do anything about it, and that the other student had showed violent propensities, and they didn’t do anything about that either.” Rosenstien sent many emails to the administrators for months saying that he was getting bulled and they did nothing about it. Well now that school has lost a lot of money for not doing anything. Because of them this kid will be paralyzed for the rest of his life. I am so sick of people getting bullied. You see things all over the internet about kids killing themselves for something that someone did to them. Why do people think that it is ok to do that to someone. I do not know why these parents are just letting their children bullying other children. That is not ok and there needs to be an end to it.
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