18 cases of bullying on minors reported to police in a year

Average age of the victims is 14 and St. Paul's Bay is the locality which saw the most reported cases

8 February 2022, 6:56pm
by Luke Vella

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The average age of the victims was 14

Police received 18 reports of bullying concerning minors in between January 2021 and January 2022.

In Parliament, Minister Byron Camilleri gave a breakdown of all the reports that the police received. He was replying to a parliamentary question by PN MP Graziella Galea.

Date of incident	Age of victim	Locality of incident
27/02/2021	14	Ħamrun
28/10/2021	13	Ħamrun
11/11/2021	13	Ħamrun
26/01/2022	15	Santa Venera
26/01/2022	17	Santa Venera
13/10/2021	17	Safi
18/12/2021	12	Naxxar
19/12/2021	14	Birkirkara
16/12/2021	13	Dingli
04/03/2021	14	Mġarr
09/03/2021	15	St. Paul's Bay
11/03/2021	15	St. Paul's Bay
03/06/2021	15	St. Paul's Bay
28/09/2021	12	St. Paul's Bay
17/01/2022	13	St. Paul's Bay
19/11/2021	15	Victoria, Gozo
29/11/2021	15	Victoria, Gozo
19/01/2022	15	Victoria, Gozo

The average age of the victims was 14, while the locality which saw the most reported cases, was St. Paul's Bay with five.

Camilleri specified that the above cases were not categorised by the type of bullying incident.

Luke Vella joined MaltaToday as a reporter in 2021