Philadelphia Eating Disorder Examiner (Pittsburgh, PA) August 11:
"A federal judge has approved a settlement of $55,000 in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit by a woman who claims her daughter was bullied into anorexia. Mary V. filed the lawsuit against the Pittsburgh, Pa. Schools last August on behalf of her daughter, who is now 15. Her daughter cites daily harassment by boys during the 2006–07 and 2007–08 school years, when the girl was in sixth and seventh grade. The harassment involved unrelenting taunting about the girl’s weight, including comments about her being 'fat.' She subsequently developed anorexia, and entered an inpatient treatment program for because her weight was 'dangerously low.'"
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