Bullied Bus Monitor Gets $700,000 from Canadian

TORONTO (AP) -- A Rochester-area bus monitor who was relentless bullied by four middle school students has received more than $700,000 raised by a Canadian man.

Sixty-eight-year-old Karen Klein received the check at a ceremony Tuesday in Toronto.

A spokeswoman for the fundraising site Indiegogo said more than 30,000 people from 84 countries contributed to the fund. Their sympathies were stirred by a cellphone video of the June taunting uploaded to YouTube by a student on the bus. The amount far exceeded the expectations of Max Sidorov, who started the drive with the goal of raising $5,000 to send Klein on vacation.

The video shows Klein trying to ignore a stream of profanity, insults and threats from the seventh-grade boys, who have been suspended.

The Greece grandmother has since retired.