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‘Got Your Back!’: New York Yankees Respond To 10-Year-Old Girl’s Emotional Appeal To Stop Bullying

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A Pennsylvania girl’s emotional plea to stop bullying has caught the attention of the New York Yankees.

Jenn Slater posted a video to her Facebook page that shows her daughter Cassidy, 10, describing how she has been routinely bullied by a group of kids at her elementary school in Scranton.

In the video, Cassidy held up a series of pages that tell her story. The fourth grader says she has been bullied since the first grade. She says is the target of a group of kids who “hit me, kicked me, pulled my hair, pushed me, stepped on me, spit on me.