One part of this story that is absolutely heart breaking, is this:
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One boy’s comment was particularly cruel: “You don’t have a family because they all killed themselves because they didn’t want to be near you.”
Klein’s oldest son committed suicide 10 years ago, according to a report by ABC New affiliate 13 WHAM TV in Rochester.
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Again, I do not think a lot of young people can draw the dinstinction between a 4chan/youtube comment section insult, and what is appropriate in real life.
And I do not agree that the embarrassment is punishment enough. These kids should have to go on TV and individually issue an apology in my opinion. It was OK to upload the taunting to youtube, so how is issuing an apology any different. At least they can somehow try and salvage some dignity out of this.