Did you personally witness or experience this? While at first I thought it sounded quite extreme, the more I thought about it the more plausible it sounded. I

Did you personally witness or experience this? While at first I thought it sounded quite extreme, the more I thought about it the more plausible it sounded. If so, what recourse do bullied children have these days that minimizes the risk of bankrupting their families and landing them in juvie, merely for the crime of defending themselves because someone decided to prey on them?