68-year-old school bus monitor was harassed so badly that it is being investigated. Click below to view the graphic video.

Melissa Nash

A school bus aide in upstate New York who was mercilessly driven to tears by student bullies found an outpouring of support Wednesday after video of the cruel taunting was uploaded online.

The upsetting incident led Greece Central School District officials and local police to investigate the verbal harassment against Karen Klein, a grandmother of eight, who was riding on a school bus Monday with a group of children from Greece Athena Middle School.

Klein, 68, said she never planned to report the kids’ nasty behavior, but found herself in the spotlight after cell phone video of the abuse was uploaded to YouTube, according to reports.

“It was like ‘wow,’” Klein told the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle after watching the footage Wednesday. “I can’t believe it happened … It was just plain mean. Nobody should have to put up with that.”

She was hoping her tormenters would just stop if she ignored them: “Trust me, they didn’t go away,” she said.

During the 10-minute video, which contains crude language, students are repeatedly heard mocking her and targeting her weight and age.

“You’re such a (expletive) troll,” one student is heard saying.

The kids accused her of wanting to rape children, asked her if she has an STD and continuously poked her and called her “poor.”

They also joked about throwing eggs at her house, urinating and defecating where she lives and stabbing her.

She appeared calm through the video, at times engaging with the children: “I’ll make sure I don’t get you guys again,” she said.

She also told them to “live with integrity.”

But most hurtful, Klein later said, was when the students called her “ugly” and joked that her family should kill themselves.

Klein, a widow, told ABC affiliate WHAM in Rochester that her oldest son committed suicide 10 years ago.

“It’s very hurtful,” Klein’s daughter, Michelle Hawkins, told the station. “It would be hurtful to anybody.”

Supporters for Klein quickly rallied around the 23-year school district veteran, raising more than $99,000 early Thursday in a campaign on Indiegogo.com.

“She doesn’t earn nearly enough ($15,506) to deal with some of the trash she is surrounded by. Lets give her something she will never forget, a vacation of a lifetime!” the campaign urges.

A Facebook support page called “Kindness for Karen” had more than 2,000 “likes” late Wednesday.

“I wanted to make sure that she doesn’t lose faith,” the page’s founder, Kendra Fee, told the Daily News.

“There are way more people who have her in their hearts and want to support her, and there’s a lot more kindness in the world,” said Fee, of Rochester, who doesn’t know Klein.

A school district spokeswoman said the children involved would face disciplinary action, although not until the school year begins again in September, the Democrat and Chronicle reported.

“Although their behavior was inexcusable, we also have concern for the safety of all involved,” district officials said in a statement. “We urge patience to allow us to investigate and determine the appropriate discipline.”

Meanwhile, Greece police spoke to the children involved, but none were charged Wednesday, according to reports.

“We really have to focus on fact, and we are very concerned about (their) safety,” Officer Steve Chatterton told YNN Rochester. “These are most likely 12, 13, 14-year-old kids.”

Klein told the Democrat and Chronicle that she’d like for her harassers to be “grounded all summer, or maybe all year,” but not to be criminally charged.

She also had another request — an apology.

WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC LANGUAGE. THE NEWS IS RUNNING THIS VIDEO UNEDITED TO SHOW THE EXTENT OF THE ABUSE TO WHICH THE SCHOOL BUS AIDE WAS SUBJECTED.