Australian Flood Survivor Attacked, Bullied on Facebook
A cruel Facebook page drew attention to the physical beating given to an Australian boy after his family was killed in a flash flood.
Bullies created a Facebook page boasting that they beat an Australian boy after he’d survived the flash flood that had killed his mother and brother.
Ten-year-old Blake Rice was assaulted by up to six other teens at a skate park where he was reportedly bashed with sticks, leaving him with a broken collarbone. But that wasn’t it – later they created a Facebook page called “We bashed Blake Rice.”
Rice’s mother and brother were killed in a flash flood that swamped Toowoomba, Australia in January.
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