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Program about bullying in schools. we covered the deaths of a number of kids who have actually taken their lives after being relentlessly bullied. you remember carl walker-hoover, he was just 11 years old. students taunted him, saying he acted gay. he hanged himself. jaheem herrera, same kind of taunts. he also hanged himself. so did ryan halligan, taunted by girls, called a loser. eric mohat, bullied again and again until one day he took a gun from his father's dresser drawer and turned it on himself. all too often parents of kids who have been bullied find the schools don't take the problem ...

Same kind of taunts. he also hanged himself. so did ryan halligan, bullied, taunlted by the girls, called a loser. eric mohat bullied again and again until one day he took a gun from his father's dresser drawer and turned it on himself. all too often as we have seen parents of kids who've been bullied find that schools don't take the problem seriously enough. here's what carl's mother said recently on capitol hill. >> i did everything that a parent is supposed to do. i chose a good school. i joined the pto. i went to every parent-teacher conference. i called the school regularly and i brought ...

To you, kiran, there is no statute governing criminal bullying. prosecutors have to rely on a series of law that is are rarely used. while these indictments certainly are significant, convictions may be an uphill battle, kiran. >> statutory rape in a case of two of them and harassment as well as disrupting an assembly. a lot of people are wondering, what does this mean? >> good work, alina, at least trying to get the principal to answer to that. thanks. >> reporter: you bet. coming up at 8:30 eastern, we are going to talk with aaron hansen, a nevada high school principal who is credited with...