Fox ‘outnumbered’ hosts get visibly emotional as they discuss horrific New Jersey bullying scandal

Last week, several members of the Fox News show “Outnumbered” burst into tears as they discussed the horrific bullying of 14-year-old Adriana Cooch, who committed suicide days after a video of her being severely beaten at school went viral.

Cooch, a Central Regional High School student in Ocean County, New Jersey, was found dead in her home on Feb. 3, two days after a grotesque video of her being brutally assaulted in a school hallway was circulated online.

In one disturbing video, a teenage girl is seen walking down a hallway with her boyfriend when a student suddenly hit her in the face with a water bottle and kicked, slapped and punched her repeatedly.

Kuch was trampled when her boyfriend rushed into the fray in an attempt to protect her while the deranged attacker continued to pull her hair and beat her.

At one point, as the victim lay unconscious on the floor, the assailant taunted her, saying, “That’s what you get, you dumb bitch!”

WARNING. The video below shows scenes of violence and may cause concern for some viewers.

Fourteen-year-old Adriana Kuch committed suicide the day after a video was posted online showing her being severely beaten by bullies at school. pic.twitter.com/UyOEaIslbK

— Inside Edition (@InsideEdition) February 13, 2023

According to Kuch’s distraught father, Michael Kuch, after the attack, a group of bullies mercilessly taunted and threatened his daughter on TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat.

“Adriana was reportedly bullied for several months by her classmates at a local high school,” according to Fox News.

Last Thursday, other Central Regional High School students revealed that they too had been severely bullied.

Schoolchildren made heartbreaking revelations at a Central Regional School District School Board meeting.

The disclosure sparked an emotional response from Outnumbered panellists on Friday.

“This is so hard to watch,” co-host Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery said with tears in her eyes.

Co-host Emily Compagno agreed while holding back tears.

“I can’t imagine myself so inaudible and so invisible,” said Compagno in a trembling voice. “Those poor kids… I can’t imagine how their parents feel.”

Minority guest Dagen McDowell, host of Fox Business, lashed out at school officials, saying they did nothing to stop the bullying.

“These people in this school district have done nothing,” she said.

“And after this child committed suicide, the superintendent, who actually resigned over the weekend, publicly tried to blame the parents of this child. He spoke publicly to the Daily Mail and revealed details of the life of this child’s father.”

In an email interview with the UK Daily Mail, previous Superintendent Triantafyllos Parlapanides said the young Cooch had been offered counseling on “drugs” and said her father was cheating on her mother, which led to her mother’s suicide. The father then married the woman he was having an affair with and moved her into the house as Kucha’s stepmother, the superintendent told the newspaper.

“We tried to help her several times, but her mother’s suicide was the main reason she started making the wrong choice,” he wrote, according to the Daily Mail.

(Ask Michael Kuh to comment on this was devastating. “I don’t know how to react to his insane bias,” he told the paper.)

McDowell also set fire to acting headmaster Douglas Corbett for his cowardly response. According to the Asbury Park Press, Corbett said “communication” was the school district’s real problem.

“The biggest challenge is communication, and one of the things I’m definitely going to do better is highlight the good stuff,” he said at a media briefing on Thursday, according to Press. “The services we provide to make sure parents and students know we’re here to help.”

McDowell, who said she was bullied and beaten in her youth, said, like Adriana Cooch, that she never told her parents because she didn’t want them to worry.

She said bullying is much worse these days due to social media where nasty videos of gang beatings go viral, so the victim has to go through the trauma on a much larger scale.

Kennedy, a mother of two, said one of her daughters was bullied at school and when she complained to the authorities they did nothing.

“It’s not just this school… It’s all over the country,” she complained.

Panelist Dr. Mark Siegel, physician and professor at NYU Langone Medical Center, cited Centers for Disease Control statistics that “56 percent of girls, according to the CDC, expressed deep sadness last year. One in three threatened suicide. Bullying has a lot to do with it, and social media is hyping it up.”

By now, many of us have seen disgusting online videos of children being brutally beaten at school, often by groups of bullies.

What worries me the most is the casual attitude of the other students, some of whom cheer for the beatings.

Strikingly, even teachers fall prey to rebellious students who punch them and yell obscenities while their peers laugh in the background.

Increasing cases of violent bullying seem to reflect the painful decline that is infecting American schools and society at large. Something must be done now to stop this tragedy.

This article originally appeared in The Western Journal.

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