A recent school bully assault in Derby proved just how vicious fellow students can be. On February 6, 2019, 15-year-old Nathaniel Dryden was violently punched in the face with so much force that his eyeglasses shattered. He was left with many cuts and much bleeding to the face.
Images by Amanda Dryden
The Results of the Bullying Were Horrific
According to the Daily Mail, the punch could have left him permanently blind if it had landed even an inch lower. His father, who is a nurse practitioner, said that his son will most likely suffer the psychological effects from this attack for the rest of his life. Plus, there is sure to be scarring from the glass that shattered around his eye.
Bullying Happened More than Once
While the worst attack on Nathaniel occurred on February 6, this was not the first incidence of bullying against him. On January 23, a schoolmate began punching Nathaniel seemingly for no reason. The next attack in February was actually caught on camera and shared via social media.
According to Derbyshire Live, Nathaniel sustained the punch directly to his face. The smashed glass gave him multiple cuts around his left eye and required him to receive 13 to 15 stitches. He also had to have a shard of glass removed from his eye.
Bullying Is Not Acceptable at School
Photographs posted by his mother, Amanda Dryden, on Facebook showed the damage as her son was in Derbyshire Hospital. She posted, “Bullying is not acceptable by any means.” Her posts have garnered numerous sympathetic comments and a sense of surprise that any child would stoop that low to hurt a schoolmate.
While bullying seems to be heating up in schools around the country, the Merrill Academy in Derby is dealing with this school bully assault as well as it can, utilizing its school behavior policy and keeping parents informed throughout the process. However, Nathaniel Dryden may be headed to a different school once his wounds are healed in hopes that a fresh start will accelerate his emotional recovery from this senseless act of bullying.
When children watch their parents and other adults act like children and bully others simply because they have a different political opinion, what do you expect?
This!! Well said!
what happened to the bully that hit him? any charges gonna be brought on to the bully?how about suing his parents?
They. Should have tried him as an adult and given a year and a day. Then that bully could see how it feels to be bullied, and I am sure he too will be totally traumatized. However, what www all should be fighting to get GOD back in schools, I truly believe that there would be no more school shootings or bullying. I’ll pray for your son and you, his family. GOD bless you all
i do hope the person who was the bully has been expelled from school and charges were filed.. or will it be pushed under the rug like so many other bullying attacks.
What about said bully? Any consequences? Any counseling for all kids to show the consequences of this barbaric bullying behavior? Hey, guy, our family is pulling for you and send you all the healing prayers… also prayers for the bullies who did this… they need it
I don’t care what age the bullies are, they know what they are doing and it’s wrong, they need to be punished enough so they don’t do it again. If you don’t while they are young you will end up with murders, threating almost anyone. So with that, the person that did not enforce the law should be responsible.
I agree the Bulling has to stop it out of control, to hurt any child for no reason,are punks they do the same to the elderly they must be taught severe lesson to show that Bulling will not be tolerated in any School.MY Prayers are with the who was severely beaten and almost Blinded because they felt like beating him up not once but again and again
I think that this is wonderful. They gave us all so much it’s right that WE give them something in return and this tiny village is perfect. My husband was a vet from Vietnam War. We have always tried to do what we could to help out his brothers. He passed in Nov 2014
That is sad I hope they find the kid and suspend him
This needs to stop sue the parent’s .
Parent are liable press charges on them. Make the parents pay charges of assault
Absolutely unacceptable. I hope his parents file charges and the bulky ends up in juvenile hall. This MUST be addressed.
This is simply lack of parenting control. The one who bullys by assaulting a fellow student should have to graduate in a School where anger management is punseled and paddling should be allowed. Spare the rod you absolutely spoil tbe child and have a human being that cannot survive in school or a work place. It is taken Too lightly! Shpuld be treated as a serious crime!
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Bullys Should Be Locked Up & Clean up all the rest rooms along the highways & Parks To Pay For There Stay At The Prison,,They Have To Learn & Be Told,Its Not Right With They Do,,When They Have Children,They Wouldnt Want That Done To There Kids,,,Im Pissed,It Happens A Lot,,The Punishment Has To Be Dont,So It Will Show Everyone,You Can;t Get Away With IT…
We live in KENTUCKY. MY daughter suffered continuous bullying because of her disfluency, stuttering. I had her speech therapist go in to speak with students and teachers, in the hope of educating them about her condition. The bullying and isolation continued.and numerous attempts to work with the school in hopes of improving her life at school. She is now 24 and says her years in school being bullied, have left scars that she will get past. It is time to end BULLYING ON ALL LEVELS.
It is like the bullies have all the rights and nobody backs up the victims
This isn’t bullying. It’s assault.
What’s going on at home???!!!!
My prayers gose out to those kids that got bully it not right that kids can not go to school and be safe I hope something going to happen to git the bully to stop my thought gose out to the kids that got hurt
So what is the verdict- what is happening to the bully abuser
How is this victim boy doing?
When my kid was bullied in school, I tried to do the right thing and talk to the school administration about it, little did I know that the principal is still waiting for a spine donor himself. So my husband and I handled it ourselves, and we put a stop to it quick like. It isn’t beneath me to bully a child who has hurt my son. Too many parents are worried about being their child’s friend and not their parent, and those kids grow up with no boundaries, and then Society has to deal with them. kids need to be taken behind the woodshed a little more nowadays and taught respect and manners again…… And for all you snowflakes who says ‘well violence doesn’t stop violence’………….. you want to bet!? If you’re waiting on other people to stop a bully for you, you will wait forever…. Because if it isn’t happening to their kid, then it ain’t that important to them. You want this kind of crap to stop happening to your child, then you handle it!!! It works, believe me!
I totally agree with you and I would have done the same thing as you did. I don’t care if I have to go to jail for my child.
Good for you. Schools proclaim to have a (0) tolerance
policy in place, but it’s not enforced in many schools.
Parents are going to have to step in and oversee policies are enforced!
I know if my kids were bullying or being bullied, shit would hit the fan, rest assured.
Those kids doing the bullying should be punished to the fullest and it would make the next bullied to think twice if he or she knew there was consequences in what they were ready to do,than punish the little a–hole to the fullest
I hope the bully gets prosecuted to the full extent of the law, that they spend there life paying for his medical bills. Hopefully he’ll serve time for attempted murder. He could have died, and his life is forever changed, while that coward gets to live a normal life, for now.
Perhaps some time in the local jail would help the bully to understand just how painful, humiliating and emotionally damaging bullying can be!! By some time, I mean at least 6 months. There is very little consequences to young bullies, which is another form of assault on the victim! Time for society to wake up!
How about punishing the bastard that did it? Jail?
Sending prayers. This no child should ever need to endure they are our future should be outside having fun laughing and happy. I’m so sorry he is going through this
Well they wonder why kids go get their daddy’s gun and go to school and kill everyone who picked on them and beat them up ? Why don’t they make it MANDATORY SENTENCE THE BULLIES WHO ASSAULT OTHER CLASSMATES HAVE TO GO TO JUVY TILL THEIR 21, I BET THEY’D STOP IT PRETTY QUICK !!!
OMG people get ahold of your kids and pay attention to their words, actions, etc. THIS IS NOT OKAY and should never happen to anyone
These kids who bully need to be arrested & pay for any medical bills. Expelled from that school & never allowed back These teachers know who bullying who they need to speak up.
Bulling unacceptable any where! Just terriblethey point out, Bullying Unacceptable in School,,
I regret not calling the police when my daughter was systematically beat and harassed at her school. My daughter took an overdose then started self harming. She now suffers from panic attacks . She didn’t want me to call the police as she felt it would only get worse. It didn’t only affect her, it caused me to suffer from my own psychological problems. Bullying is a scourge in society. Kids have killed themselves. It should not be tolerated and the bullies should have consequences for their actions.
I have a son with Asbergers a form of autism He has been punched and bullied for a few years they video tap d the fight where one guys was waiting around the corner and punched him to the ground. My husband was killed when I was pregnant with he and his twin sister. He has never been taught to fight so he didn’t even throw a punch. The kids video taped it and sent it out on social media for everyone to see calling him the school pussy. They have told him he should just kill himself and so much more. I took him out of school and he did cyber for the rest of his Junior year. He wanted to go back for his big senior year and it started again. My son was caught at school looking up easy ways to kill yourself. I have him in counseling. He is now on a high dies of antidepressants and anexity
Darn bullying will never stop as long as parents put a stop to this and I believe it comes from home.
So, another youngster attacked by a bully
Why as a society not TEACHING our children self defense. Bullying will never stop..
But! Self defense tactics will defend curb this type of behavior. I DO NOT CONDONE VIOLENCE, BUT IF YOU COME FOR MY CHILD HE WILL BE ABLE TO DEFEND HIS SELF..PERIOD! AND THE BULLY WILL PAY WITH THE BEATDOWN HE WAS PLANNING FOR ANOTHER .
A lot of the schools will do nothing. My grandson is being bullied in Allegan, Michigan. When we asked them to go through their videos, their reply was “Do you know there are hours and hours there?” The kids will not say who is bullying them cause then they are a rat. Superintendent, principal did nothing. we took him to a private counselor. The school counselor found out about this and wanted my daughter to sign a medical release so she could get her hands on his medicals records, Hell no. The last straw was he went to school and one of the bullies put a frozen mouse in his backpack he got mad and threw a punch. He got expelled. Nothing happened to the bully. My grandson is now finishing his schooling online.
Sad.
Let him use this as motivation to work out and get stronger. This will not traumatize him unless the parents allow that to happen. Talk him through the pain, the fear and the anger. Motivate him to work out to prevent this from happening. Teach him that with great strength comes great responsibility so he doesn’t become a bully as he gets stronger. He can get pleasure in smiling at his bully knowing that he’ll never try that BS again. It’s not what happens to us but how we respond to what happens to us that defines us. Good luck young man.
I agree with you a million times ,the home life is where there is no rules that is where bullying gets started,and those parents need more help than those that have been behind the woodshed once or twice
This is not ok. Teach children to be compassionate and respectful to everyone. Only then, do we have caring and respectful adults.
I hope when they find who did this they are taken to the hospital with the parents and see the condition this child is and the parents. who are responsible for their child’s behavior. should foot the hospital bill. Child should be charged with assault and battery and put on probation and get counseling for anger management.Jam
We have to make the schools accountable of what is going on all this bullion because eventually they’re gonna kill somebody by bullying them or the person that it’s being bullies gonna kill theirself because they can’t handle it anymore we need to make the schools Do something about the bullion ponit expel the person as bullion people
This is definitely worthy and I dont care about anyone else’s opinion. This was definite a felony assult case and his parents should file charges.