NC for this, as it can be outing although I almost wish the child's mum is on here to see what type of child her DD is.
Background: DD1 (9) has mild autism and struggles with socialising and making friends. We moved to another town and school because the class bully was making her life hell and the school refused to do anything about it as the DM was a teacher at the school.
First year here and the class bully starts on her. At first the school is wonderful and nips it in the bud quickly (great teacher). Ever since they started Y5 the bullying has escalated to the extent DD1 comes home in tears a number of times a week. Bully and her gang follows DD1 around, call her names, pull at her clothes, push her around and have physically hurt her on more than one occasion. Bully then runs to teacher and says DD1 hurt her! They've also pointed at DD1s privates while they were getting changed for swimming and made rude noises and laughed. It's gotten to the point that DD1 doesn't report the bullying for fear of retaliation by bully. She also comes home and bullies me and DD2, I guess in order to gain some control for herself. She hits and punches us, which she's never done before.
Bully has a youtube channel. She's 10 and you have to be 13 to have an account. She posts personal stuff and make-up videos. On almost every video there is someone pretending to be DD1 commenting. Stuff like: Hi Bully it's DD1 I like to annoy you I hate you but you can be mean to me at school.
I spoke to the class teacher (for the billionth time), he spoke to her and she denied having a channel, but most of the comments vanished overnight. So now there's a new video with the comment above on it.
I've now e-mailed the school with the youtube link and the comments, and asked them to take it seriously. I've copied in the Family Support Practitioner (CAF in place). She was horrified that a child that age can post such personal things on youtube, and thinks I should see what the school does, but also report it to the police, re the bullying and impersonation.
I don't want to cause or stir or make things more difficult for DD1, but how much is a bully supposed to get away with? Should I go to the police? The FSP thinks this is extremely serious.