Bully beatdown

Adding onto the story, the mother of the bully wants the victim to say sorry.

IT'S a tale of David and Goliath at an outer western Sydney school - with Goliath fighting back against his much smaller schoolyard bully.

But now the bully's mother has retaliated against her son's victim and the video footage of the fight which has gone viral.

The emotional mother of Ritchard Gale, Tina, told the Seven Network last night that she and her family have been victimised by the footage, which has spread worldwide. She also demanded an apology from the victim.

"We don't need this posted everywhere," she said. "I would like him to apologise."

She said she was "shocked" at her son's behaviour, but did not think he deserved to be bodyslammed by Year 10 student Casey Heynes at Chifley College's Dunheved Campus, St Marys.

"I was actually shocked because I always brought my three children up to walk away from fights," she said.

The video footage of the Year 7 boy, who was hurled to the ground after trying to start a fight with the larger student, was taken down from the YouTube website, but has been posted on websites globally.

At thetelegraph.com.au, the footage was viewed four times more than the devastation that has struck Japan.

The controversy over whether Casey's retaliation was appropriate dominated website and radio programs yesterday and became the subject of global online forums.

The international interest comes on the eve of the National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence. The focus of tomorrow's campaign will be bystanders.

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I must say, living in western Sydney myself, fights are way too common around here, most guys (like the bully) always acting like they're king sh'it. I always hear school kids on the bus acting tough & talking about fights. There has been a lot of stabbing/shooting going on either at or around school during the past few months.