http://cbs11tv.com/local/school.bull...2.1601141.html
Here is a case where the boy "manned up" and dealt with it, everyone doing the appropriate thing, talked to his parents, parents talked to administrators, etc. yet the shithead bullies still didn't stop until the kid ended up in the emergency room with a torn rectum from a wedgie.
Parents wanted kids punished by school, not enough response, so they went to the cops. What was the punishment? Supervised counseling
Boy, that's gonna show them.
As to the situation with this poor girl who committed suicide and the 9 bullies.
I wonder how the parents of the bullies are feeling now? From things I've read online, these kids had horrific facebook pages, with one of the girls brother's status saying, "N****** suck, White Power!" Lovely. Real paragons of virtue, these ones.
Regardless of the eventual punishment, be it jail time or "supervised counseling", these kids lives are ruined.
In this day and age of Google, with your history following you forever, they'll be plenty punished when they cannot repair their reputations, or get a job.