Child being bullied

judygarland

Treevo wrote: »

Contact the police. It won't matter if the person responsible has hidden their number because they can't hide their number from the authorities.

I did call a police help line and their advice was to let the school deal with the situation. At least, I can protect her from all this by not letting her have access to her phone and monitoring her facebook account.

fedupnow

Try asking on the techy forum. Those guys know everything! Honestly, they're amazing over there.

I'd have thought threatening phone calls are a criminal offence so the police should be interested. The school, I'm guessing, will say they can't do anything about stuff that happens off the school premises. That's not to say stop communicating with the school, but threatening phone calls, imo, is one for the police.

When my son was bullied I felt like throwing a party when the bullies were daft enough to send him a Christmas card. I took it to the police and they went round and 'had a word' to put the fear of satan up them. It didn't work in our case (bullies too stupid to listen) but it might in this one.

Good luck.

judygarland

fedupnow wrote: »

Try asking on the techy forum. Those guys know everything! Honestly, they're amazing over there.

I'd have thought threatening phone calls are a criminal offence so the police should be interested. The school, I'm guessing, will say they can't do anything about stuff that happens off the school premises. That's not to say stop communicating with the school, but threatening phone calls, imo, is one for the police.

When my son was bullied I felt like throwing a party when the bullies were daft enough to send him a Christmas card. I took it to the police and they went round and 'had a word' to put the fear of satan up them. It didn't work in our case (bullies too stupid to listen) but it might in this one.

Good luck.

Ooh thanks. Will ask on there too.

Did your son's bully stop eventually or did he have to put up with it for his entire school years?

This girl has been told by the school to stay away from my daughter, so for the last week she has been sending her friends over to listen in which I think is in the hope that something is being said about her. My daughter has moved on and wants nothing to do with her but this girl is obsessed. She had been copying my daughter's homework for months and she is really annoyed now because the people she hangs around with are not very bright and they regularly get detentions for not doing their work.

She couldnt resist though on Thursday and then came over and had an aggressive rant. Luckily a dinner lady witnessed it and thought it was totally out of order. I think she was waiting for my DD to be on her own.

I don't think the mother has any idea what her daughter is up to and I wont hesitate in getting the police involved. I'm going to keep records of all the phonecalls and record them.

ladybez

Some schools will act on things which happen outside of school times and off school premises, partly because things tend to spill over from one thing to another.
My DD2, who I admit is no angel, was being bullied on her phone and facebook, she took screen shots of both, took them into school and the perpetrators were dealt with. Her school also told us that she had been seen drinking and acting inappropriately one particular week end. This was not correct and we could prove it. Again the people who accused her were dealt with.

Treevo

If a text was sent then you'll have the number? Or am I missing something?

londonlydia

Not the mature way, but if this girl's friend's keep hanging around your daughter I would get her to loudly say that she 'can't believe *this girl* cant take the fact she rejected her come on, especially as she now has a voicemail proving it', and that 'now she's getting her friends to obviously stalk her'. Viscous lie of course, but she wont be able to disprove it seeing as she wont admit to leaving the voicemails...she'll deny it of course, it's not true, but not everyone will completely disbelieve it..

pulliptears

iblacklist was one for jailbroken iphones, there is an android equivalent as well.

Depending on the severity of the messages it might be worth speaking to your local PCSO as well.

Carl31

Counting_Pennies wrote: »

Swap your phone with hers, and when the calls come in answer them and say you don't think it is appropriate to be behaving this way and that you believe their parents would be very disappointed in them.

oooh, scary!

apart from supplying further ammo to the bullies to use, im not sure that would do anything

judygarland

Well, after listening to the message in a better reception area, at the end of the message it said press 55 to return the call. I duly did and after a few rings it went to answerphone. I'm now thinking that the number I called will now come up on my bill! Fingers crossed anyway.

pimento

After 48 hours, your network should be able to give you the number, you may not have to wait for a bill.

Or you will be able to see it online if you have an online account.