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Bus monitor is bullied by students

June 22, 2012

Greece, New York a 68-year-old Karen Klein is bullied persistently by middle school students on a school bus. A cell phone video was taken and on the video you can see she’s surrounded by the kids harassing her. Klein is attacked with profane language, insults and cruel taunts. The young students repeatedly call the grandmother of eight belittling names such as troll and fat. Klein was just trying to do her job as the bus monitor.

On the video Klein tries to pay no attention to them and look the other way when one of the boys jabs the backside of her arm with his finger prompting the other students to comment on her “jiggle”.

In the beginning of the clip Klein is noticeably shaken and tells the boys she is crying. One of them responds, “She probably misses her box of Twinkies.” The cruelty continues when they ask where she lives, so they can “piss” on her door. The young bullies insisted to know how much she paid for her purse and if her home was a trailer. “She probably eats deodorant because she can’t afford real food,” one of them said. The verbal attack included the kids guessing what would pour out of Klein’s stomach if they were to stab her.

The most agonizing part of the video is what is heard last. One of the students says “you don’t have a family because they all killed themselves because they didn’t want to be near you.” One of Klein’s sons had committed suicide a few years ago.

After the mortifying video went viral, a fund raiser page was created to give Klein a vacation. The goal was $5,000 yet the total exceeded $200,000 on Thursday afternoon and it continues to increase.