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'Kidnapped' kids found 20 years later
07:51 AEST Fri Feb 6 2009
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Boy's accused stabber 'had been bullied'
16:41 AEST Fri Feb 6 2009 A schoolboy accused of stabbing a classmate with a knife in a frenzied attack at a regional Victorian school was a quiet student who snapped after being bullied, schoolmates said.
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Dad who shock-collared children jailed
07:28 AEST Sun Feb 1 2009
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Five infants die in hospital blaze
07:32 AEST Sun Feb 1 2009
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Octuplets' mum 'obsessed with kids'
06:02 AEST Sun Feb 1 2009 The Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilisation, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said.
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Nazi-namer dad slams kids' removal
11:27 AEST Sun Feb 1 2009
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'Big fight' warning on girl's bridge death
05:00 AEST Fri Jan 30 2009
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Bridge death: man on murder charge 'in acute psychiatric state'
By Kate Hagan, January 29, 2009 A man charged with the murder of his daughter after she was allegedly thrown from the West Gate Bridge is in an "acute psychiatric state'', a court has heard.
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Child 'thrown from Melbourne bridge'
13:00 AEST Thu Jan 29 2009
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Group 'help' Sweden mum hide Aussie sons
12:20 AEST Thu Jan 29 2009 A Melbourne father of two young boys believed to have been abducted by their mother in Sweden claims a taxpayer-funded feminist group called Kobra is involved.
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Man who murdered pregnant wife out early
12:07 AEST Thu Jan 22 2009 A man who shot dead his pregnant wife on the NSW south coast will be free within two weeks after being granted parole eight years before his maximum jail term expired.
Brian Corrigan was sentenced to 22 years in prison after shooting his wife Kim twice in the head at their Kiama home in 1992, killing both her and their unborn baby girl.
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'Depression hits young women'
December 17, 2008 YOUNG Australian women are making more claims for anti-depressants than any other medicine as depression takes hold of a new generation.
A new Women's Health Australia study suggests women aged 28 to 33 are in poorer mental health than their mothers or grandmothers, with almost one in five reporting a diagnosis of depression by a doctor.
The search for answers in prescription medicines has had young women making about seven claims for anti-depressants a year against the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and spending $113 a year out of their own pockets on treatment.
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A mother's guilt over murdered kids
July 06, 2008 07:32pm A WOMAN whose three children were killed by her husband in a murder suicide says she feels guilty for not being able to protect them.
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Gary Bell's children failed by the system
June 28, 2008 12:09pm
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'Depression drugs 'do not work''
February 27, 2008 NEW-GENERATION antidepressants, including the "happy pill" Prozac, may be no better at relieving the symptoms of depression than a dummy pill.
Controversial new research builds on earlier claims that the drugs work only for the most severely depressed patients, and there is no reason to prescribe them unless other treatments have failed.
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Depression the great excuse of our times
February 28, 2008 10:29am AUTHOR Anthony Burgess once wrote that incidents of evil could not always be explained by a shortage of social workers.
These days he might argue that not all criminal and obnoxious behaviour is a result of depression.
But increasingly that's what teachers, parents and judges are being told.
Depression has become the great excuse of our times and what is a genuine condition has been corrupted into a nifty carry-all excuse.
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Depression drugs 'do not work
February 27, 2008 12:00am
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Miscarrying woman told 'life's a bitch'
18:25 AEST Fri Jan 16 2009 A Sydney woman told by a doctor "life's a bitch" as she miscarried her baby in a NSW hospital is traumatised, her husband says.
The woman is the latest to reveal her harrowing story of poor treatment while miscarrying in the state's public hospitals.
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Man sells daughter for cash, beer, meat
07:14 AEST Wed Jan 14 2009
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A brother and sister who disappeared 20 years ago have been found by police.
An Ohio man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for disciplining his children with a dog shock collar.
Five infants in a hospital incubation unit in northern India have burnt to death when the facility caught fire, media reports said.
The father of three children who have names associated with Nazis is accusing the state Division of Youth and Family Services of taking his children under false pretences and said one appeared neglected when he saw them last week.
Heath Campbell said on Saturday that he and his wife, Deborah, have been allowed to see their children once since state child welfare workers removed them from the family's home on January 9.
A note warning of a "big fight" has been found in the home of the man who allegedly threw his daughter off Melbourne's West Gate Bridge.
A four-year-old girl remains critically ill after being thrown from Melbourne's West Gate Bridge into the water below.
A POLICE investigation into the triple murder-suicide of three children and their father will determine if a child protection agency did everything it could to intervene before the tragedy, the New South Wales Government says.
NEW-GENERATION antidepressants, including the "happy pill" Prozac, may be no better at relieving the symptoms of depression than a dummy pill.
A man in California has been arrested for arranging to sell his 14-year-old daughter for $US16,000 ($A23,577), 100 crates of beer and several cases of meat, police said on Tuesday.
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Ryan Halligan Story on Frontline.. |
The different forms of bullying |
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Depression True Stories - Under Age
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Jared Benjamin High, Born Sept. 23, 1985 - Died Sept. 29, 1998
It is believed that depression causes most teenage suicides, but this creates a new question - what causes the depression? A person just doesn't wake up one morning with depression. Psychologists believe that some people have a genetic tendency towards depression, some people develop depression because of environmental triggers, and some people can have both genetic and environmental triggers, (See "Teen Depression and it's Causes"). Jared developed depression from bullying at school as well as an assault by a bully in school. The new term being used to describe this type of teen Suicide is, "bullycide," a suicide caused from the effects of bullying. |
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Ryan died on October 7, 2003. He was suffering in silence from the pain of bullying and having thoughts of suicide Our son Ryan was a sweet, gentle and very sensitive soul. He was born in Poughkeepsie , NY just a week before Christmas. That Christmas, Ryan was the best present of all. As he grew, his affectionate way made it irresistible to hug him and feel him hug you back. He had the magic ability to bring a smile to anyone that looked his way. As he grew, he developed a wonderful sense of humor too. And when we moved into new neighborhoods twice during his life, kids quickly gravitated to his warmth and friendliness. "Please never forget Ryan's story and the fragility of adolescence.". |
The Back Story of Megan Meier - Myspace SuicideBy ABC News Nov. 19, 2007 Megan Meier sometimes suffered from low self-esteem and was on medication at the time of her death. But her family said she looked forward to her 14th birthday and having her braces removed. When a cute boy befriended Megan on the social networking site MySpace, the two formed a quick connection during their more than month-long relationship. |
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The parents of a 13-year-old girl who believe their daughter's October 2006 suicide was the result of a cruel cyber hoax are pushing for measures to protect other children online.
Tina and Ron Meier, who are now separated and plan to divorce, have taken up the cause of Internet safety after a bizarre twist in their daughter Megan Meier's death. The mother of a former friend of Megan's allegedly created a fictitious profile in order to gain Megan's trust and learn what Megan was saying about her daughter. But the communication eventually turned hostile.
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Tragic last words of MySpace suicide girlsBy smh.com.au - Ben Cubby and Larissa Dubecki - April 24, 2007 The Melbourne girls vanished the next day after telling their parents they were going shopping. Now police are investigating the final message, discovered after Jodie and Stephanie were found hanged from the same tree in a national park in the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne, on Sunday. |
From last December to February Jodie posted three odes to suicide, the second one titled Suicide in the Night.
It reads: "It's over for me, I can't take it! I hear it over and over again, it feels like it always rains."
Another of her MySpace messages read: "Let Steph n me b free."
