After she’d committed suicide, a 14-year-old’s parents claimed it was about bullying, and the failure of their daughter’s school to stop it; blacks have made it about race. Okay, then.

/

Superintendent Triantafillos Parlapanid: 'We're not going to double-whammy a kid where they are suspended and then police charges as well.”

The NYPost had the original story yesterday, leaving out all mention of race

'They just kept coming' New Jersey girl, 14, takes her own life after video shows other girls beating her up

That was probably appropriate if the tragedy was a tale of bullying, and a school administrator’s failure to control it in his school.

A 14-year-old New Jersey high school student took her own life after video was posted online of a group of girls attacking her — a suicide her father believes was fueled by longtime bullying.

Adriana Kuch, who attended Central Regional High School in Berkeley Township, was found dead at home two days after the sickening Feb. 1 assault, police said.

Alarming video showed several students attacking the teen, hitting her with a water bottle, as she walked with her boyfriend in a school hallway, Patch reported.

In the 20-second clip viewed by the local news outlet, a person is heard yelling: “That’s what you get, you stupid a— b—!”

The assailants are seen punching, kicking and pulling Adriana’s hair, while others laugh and record the vicious assault, according to ABC 7.

“Getting hit with a water bottle didn’t hurt Adriana, what hurt her was the embarrassment and humiliation, they just kept coming at her,” he said.

“My daughter actually blacks out and they don’t call an ambulance, they take her to the nurse’s office,” Kuch told ABC 7, adding Adriana had “never been in a fight before, she’s 98 pounds, 5-2 and she loves everybody.”

[After her suicide went viral] Three girls have been charged with third-degree felony assault and a fourth was charged with disorderly conduct, News 12 New Jersey reported.

Schools Superintendent Triantafillos Parlapanides told the news outlet police were not called after the attack, citing school policy.

“I don’t believe a police report was done. We normally just suspend. If a parent wants to press charges, they can with the police,” he said, adding, “We’re not going to double-whammy a kid where they are suspended and then police charges as well.”

Kuch was outraged at the school’s response, telling NBC New York: “A kid is assaulted with a weapon and their policy is not to call the police or file a report.”

Kuch also demanded accountability from the Ocean County school district for harassment and bullying that he says Adriana suffered for a long time.

On Wednesday, more than 200 students at Central Regional High walked out of class in protest of the incident — demanding action over what they described as a pattern of bullying that the district ignores, ABC 7 reported.


(Question: has fear of violating disparate punishment rules stop this school from intervening in these cases? Just asking.)

Then came the reaction, as reported in The Daily Mail:

In a Facebook post on Thursday, Michael Kuch said: 'People are sending me garbage like this,' sharing a screengrab from an Instagram story in which a person passing by one of the protests wrote: 'They are protesting about that white girl.

'Nah, cuz wtf why does black people do that to the white girl,' the Instagram user writes, claiming, 'black people know that white [people] hate them still.'

In response, Michael said his daughter 'loved everyone ' and 'did not care about race,' claiming, 'the world would be a better place if everyone was as colorblind as she was.'

He added that Adriana had 'never been in a fight before, she's 98 pounds, 5'2 "and she loves everybody.'

adriana kuch

UPDATE, from a follow-up story today:

More than 6,500 community members have signed on to a petition on Change.org titled “Stop the Violence at Central Regional High School.”

The petition was launched by Racheal O’Dea, who wrote that her daughter also was “jumped and physically assaulted by MULTIPLE girls” at the school in January 2022.

“She had reported threats and their previous stalking to the school weeks before it happened and NOTHING was done! The attack was recorded and sent across social media,” O’Dea wrote.

She said the family has filed a lawsuit against the district “due to their negligence and involvement.”