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A Massachusetts eighth grader has been hospitalized with emotional distress after months of bullying, MyFoxBoston.com reports, becoming the latest case of a student pushed to the edge by classmates.

The Massachusetts girl's mother told MyFoxBoston.com that the bullying took place at a Foxboro middle school. The mother said it came to a head during her daughter's birthday party, when she received threatening phone calls, one of them calling her a "whore."

Police say they are now looking into this as a criminal harassment investigation.

This latest incident comes after a Massachusetts teenager committed suicide after she was bullied at school, leading to charges against the students accused of bullying her.

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