Her son died at 15 after being cyberbullied. Now she’s campaigning against bullying: ‘I don’t want him to have died in vain.’
In November 2021, Robert and Rose Bronstein breathed a sigh of relief when their 15-year-old son, Nate, was told by his former principal that he could return to his old school.
The parents told Insider that they’d been desperately worried about Nate. Rose Bronstein said he’d complained about bullying and isolation at his new school almost as soon as he’d enrolled two months earlier.
“Things started to fall apart quickly,” Bronstein said. “Then, throughout the semester, things got worse and worse.” She said that the situation had gotten so bad, Nate began to skip school.
Tragically, she told Insider, he died by suicide on January 13, 2022 — 11 days before he was due to return to his former school. He was driven to “despair,” she said, by the “relentless” jibes and ostracism. Bronstein said she and her husband only discovered that their teen had been targeted by cyberbullies after his death.
