AITA: Internet sides with dad who threatened to sue his daughter's bully after they crossed the line

A father-daughter relationship is one of the purest forms of love in the world and a dad always provides everything to his daughter that makes her happy. However, if she is in trouble, a father can become one of the most dangerous persons in the world to save his beloved child.

Recently, a 30-year-old man on Reddit's "Am I the A*****" forum shared an incident where he threatened to sue his daughter's bully and her school after they crossed the line.

Daughter's bully crosses major line in school

The man, who shares his 11-year-old adopted daughter with his husband, a 33-year-old man, posted about the incident on Reddit. He revealed that their daughter has a school bully, who took the harassment way too far. This "severe" bullying began with the children attacking her for being adopted.

The man wrote on Reddit, "It started off with just name-calling but has gotten worse over the past few weeks. Context: She’s adopted, which is something we’ve always been open about and celebrated as part of her story."

He continued, "Recently, some kids found out about her adoption and started saying horrible things – telling her stuff like her birth mother didn’t want her. They tell her that she’s unwanted tell her she a reject. (Which is not the case her mother loved her very much to the point she literally gave her life so she could be here)."

He went on to explain that the bullies took it a step further into the physical. The man said that their daughter came home with some of her hair chopped off.

"A few days ago, she came home in tears with her hair butchered they’d cut off 2 inch of her ponytail well in class all while taunting her names and laughing at her reaction. They will follow her through the halls to make fun of her on a regular basis now," the man added.

Man threatens to sue his daughter's bully and the school

After the horrific incident, the man and his husband reached out to the school multiple times. He wrote, "I emailed, called, even showed up in person to speak with teachers and the principal, but all I got were empty promises that they’d 'look into it.'"

Moreover, he added that the school kept ignoring the matter despite the serious harm it was causing to their daughter. He mentioned that their daughter’s mental health hit a low, with the dad revealing, "She’s anxious, struggling to sleep, and now begs us not to send her to school."

Out of frustration, the man reached out to a lawyer "to explore legal action against both the school and the bully’s family." 

He added, "Only when the school and her parents learned we were considering a legal action did they start to act. Suddenly, the school calls me to say they’re moving the bully out of my daughter’s class and claim they 'had a talk' with her. The girl’s parents reached out too, saying they’d ‘talk to their daughter’ and promised it would stop."

He concluded the post and wrote, "So, AITA for moving forward with legal action even though the school and the bully’s parents now claim they’re handling it?"

Internet sides with man who threatens to sue his daughter's bully

People on Reddit agreed with the Reddit user who threatened to sue his daughter's bully after they crossed the line.

A person wrote on Reddit, "Yeah sorry. “Bullying” with name calling is one thing. Physical abuse to a child by cutting her hair DURING CLASS is completely different. Why didn’t the teacher do anything? Why did the teacher allow scissors in class?"

Another person added, "I can promise you that this family is a bunch of bullies (at their jobs, with people in general) and they've been getting away with it forever. This is a lesson their child MUST learn now."

One person wrote, "They ASSAULTED your daughter. The school and the bully’s parents had ample opportunity to deal with this issue, BEFORE YOUR DAUGHTER WAS ASSAULTED. Their pitiful attempts to rectify their sheer lack of discipline is, quite frankly, too little, too late."

A person also mentioned, "NTA. As a lawyer, I say sue, sue, sue. Get a settlement agreement that contains a plan of action to address bullying in the future. Sue them all. I would also file a police report. Cutting her hair was assault. Big fat F to all of them. Protect your child."

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