Elementary School Student Who Died After Reporting School Violence... Police Investigation Underway

The Perpetrators' Names Are Written in the Will

A sixth-grade elementary school student in Busan was found to have made an extreme choice after suffering from school violence.

According to the police and the bereaved family on the 11th, on October 9 last year, A (12), a sixth grader at an elementary school in Busan, fought with a friend at a playground and 8 minutes later went up to an apartment and made an extreme choice. The family claimed that the cause was school violence from a group including the friend she fought with for one year.

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The family said, "Since October 2022, when our daughter was in fifth grade, she had been subjected to school violence such as bullying," and "The child's will contained the names of several children presumed to be perpetrators."

After the child passed away, the family reported two main perpetrators to the School Violence Deliberation Committee. However, the judgment was deferred due to difficulties in verifying the facts. The family lamented, "We noticed the child showing strange behavior and took her to the hospital, but because we focused on treatment, we could not report to the school violence committee in time," and added, "We must reveal the injustice done to our daughter." However, it is known that some of the students identified as perpetrators transferred schools after A passed away.

The police said, "Since the person involved is deceased, the investigation is taking quite some time," and "It is difficult to disclose specific investigation details."

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