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April 16, 2013 02:58 am GMT

Dad Rallies Thousands on Facebook in Anti-Bullying Plea

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When police didn't take immediate action after a parent reported that his sixth-grade son was being bullied, the Wisconsin father took matters into his own hands — on Facebook.

On March 26, dad Matthew Bent posted a Facebook photo holding a sign declaring, "I stand behind my son in the fight against bullying!" Bent's Facebook plea to stop bullying went viral and had generated more than 453,000 likes and 466,000 shares, as of Monday afternoon.

In the post, Bent claims that a bully body-slammed his son three times and stole his son's necklace. When Bent went to authorities to report the bully, he alleges they brushed him off: "He [the officer] told me that because my son voluntarily walked into the area that the bully was, that it was my son's fault for going 'into the lions den' and there was nothing he would do about it." Read more...

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