Comments on: Relentless in their efforts to demean her: bullies convicted today but what is Brodie’s life worth?

By: Dianne

Dianne — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:52:31 +0000

I would just like to know if they have shown any remorse for what they have done and have they said sorry to Brodie’s Parents for ending their daughters life.

I also would like to know how is bulling allowed to happen in a business like that.
Isn’t there a policy that should be set out in a work place to make sure that the employer looks after the safety of their staff and isn’t there a policy for occupation health and safety .Shouldn’t BULLING be covered in that policy , surely there must have been something that someone should have or could have done to have given that young girl support in her time of need. I think the Government should be doing more by doing random checkups . One more thing is that business still opened where Brodie worked if so the why isnt it closed down or under new management

By: Trish Roney

Trish Roney — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:11:10 +0000

I urge anyone who reads this and feels strongly about changes to legislation to jump on the facebook site that julia mentioned…’Justice for Brodie Panhold’. As stated this is not a hate site, purely a place to share you sorrow and get involved in making a difference to prevent this from happening again!!! It may be too late for Brodie but maybe together we can bring forward prevention

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:45:35 +0000

We have started a facebook group for Brodie to try and change legislation and bring more serious charges for these types of crime. We would appreciate any advice and people are welcome to join. Please also note it is not a hate site against the men, so constructive comments only please.

By: Melinda Liszewski

Melinda Liszewski — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:43:01 +0000

For those on facebook, over 1800 members on this facebook group “Justice for Brodie Panlock:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=296035944587&ref=nf

By: Jenny B

Jenny B — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:46:37 +0000

I bet there are women in these guys lives (girlfriends/wives/future girlfirends). I wonder how they feel choosing to be with these men… What message does this send to other men.

How do parents bring up people with such a lack of respect/values…

By: Sad

Sad — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:17:30 +0000

As Melinda has said, this is so Lord of the Flies.

Bullying has long been an issue for me, having been emotionally scarred by bullying as a child. But I think we don’t realise how much social bullying occurs – try being obese or a teen mother, and you will begin to discover bullying all over again. People not wanting to leave their homes for fear of the nastiness.

But this is shocking to me.

My heart goes out to little Brodie and her family. I can’t bear to think of the hell her life must have been, of how she must have felt discomfort just to be in her own body. The constant messages of ‘There’s something wrong with you. You’re not good enough.’ Who can live with that, and who can not believe it when you hear it again and again and again and again through your life?

I had thought people in the workplace were more protected from this kind of harrassment and psychological abuse. If it’s not a crime to deliberately push somebody to suicide, with malice aforethought, it should be.

By: Anita Tibbertsma

Anita Tibbertsma — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:59:01 +0000

How can they become so insensitive that the rat poison was a ‘joke’ ? How desensitised to ‘respect’ are we becoming? Was she just a weak teenage girl who couldn’t take a joke? Or did these men forget that they are capable of so much more than what they have reduced themselves too?

By: Lydia Jade Turner

Lydia Jade Turner — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:19:00 +0000

$115 000 is an inadequate punishment for these boys, who, according to Brodie’s family, have “shown no remorse.”

I am disgusted. They should be in jail.

By: Frank Rasenberger

Frank Rasenberger — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:47:13 +0000

I agree with all previous comments – especially Stace’s comment. Foolish low-lifes who show no respect for the life given to them or to another.

By: adriane bauman

adriane bauman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:23:29 +0000

To me this seems no different to other workplace deaths- where there is complete negligence of an employer to maintain the safety of thier workplace. I wonder if the idiots who bullied Brodie had undertaken a less subtle form of killing her (such as bashing her to death physically, rather than emotionally) would have experienced the same outcome penalty for thier actions. I suspect not.

Ironically it seems not that long ago that computations for people who sustained serious injuries in the workplace (in NSW) exceeded the combined fine of these bullies.