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March 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“The police need to be given their power back to intervene in schools”… Justine Kelly. Photo: James Alcock
THE family of a teenage boy who committed suicide following months of violent school bullying are hoping to finally ”put him to rest” after the NSW Education Department agreed to a six-figure civil settlement.
The mother of Alex Wildman, 14, said she felt ”relieved and vindicated” after lawyers for the department told the Downing Centre District Court they had agreed to settle the family’s damages claim yesterday.
”I don’t want Alex’s death to be in vain,” Justine Kelly said.
Bullied … teenager Alex Wildman.
”If changes can be made to the way schools deal with bullying, if it stops one child from the fall that Alex had, then this will all have been worthwhile.”
The settlement comes nearly four years after Alex took his own life in the garage of the family’s Lismore home.
In 2010 the Deputy State Coroner Malcolm MacPherson found that, over the course of four months in 2008, the teenager was physically and verbally tormented and threatened with violence via online social networking sites by students from Lismore’s Kadina High School.
The teenager was bashed three times in the week before he committed suicide – the final time on school grounds in full view of a group of students.
The assault was recorded on a spectator’s mobile phone for distribution to humiliate Alex. But it was deleted by Kadina’s then-deputy principal, Bradd Farrell, before it could be shown to police.
After the inquest, Alex Wildman’s family launched civil proceedings in the District Court.
They claimed staff were aware he was being attacked but were negligent in failing to stop it from happening or providing counselling and other support.
The department has agreed to pay the family a six-figure sum believed to be nearly $1 million.
Mrs Kelly, who lives with her family in Sydney, said she would still campaign against bullying.
”The police need to be given their power back to intervene in schools when this kind of thing is happening,” she said. ”Schools need to take it seriously so that the children involved are made to feel safe and protected.”
”We feel some justice has been done for Alex today. We can put him to rest.”
with Saffron Howden
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