HLN just talking about another boy committed suicide in 2 weeks for being bullied at school, this one is in Georgia. The Mom said he was so tired of being called gay and kids making fun of his accent...
I am not surprised being in Ga., I went through that sheet in High school as a jr. I went to last half in Ga.....it was awful...they called me lesbian just because I had been living in Calif., I was like an alien...as soon as I left back to Cali. at the end of that school year, I got into drugs & alcohol....it outrages me and even more because this case happened in Ga.
This little boy would not have gone through that if he lived in Cali....all because of ignorant buillies.
21 April 2009Anti-Gay Bullying Drives 11YO Georgia Boy to Commit Suicide Another horrific end to the relentless, harassment and anti-gay bullying of
another 11-year-old boy, this time outside Atlanta.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports:
"After returning home from school, fifth-grader Jaheem Herrera quietly went into his room and hanged himself. His 10-year-old sister, Yerralis, also a fifth-grader, discovered Jaheem’s dead body. 'His sister was screaming, "Get him down, get him down," 'said Norman Keene, who helped raise Jaheem since the boy was two years old.
"Jaheem was bullied relentlessly, his family said. 'They called him gay and a snitch,' his stepfather said. 'All the time they’d call him this.'
"[Jaheem's best friend] said, 'He told me that he’s tired of everybody always messing with him in school. He is tired of telling the teachers and the staff, and they never do anything about the problems. So, the only way out is by killing himself.' "
FOX 5 Atlanta
reports the 11-year-old Virgin Islands native was physically assaulted by older boys. Jaheem's best friend and several classmates intervened after older boys put Jaheem into a headlock and he passed out.
Jaheem Herrera's mother—and the mother of the friend who rescued Jaheem from the headlock—said "they repeatedly complained about harassment, but nothing was done." The DeKalb School System refuses to discuss the case.
Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover of Massachusetts, who
took his own life two weeks ago after months of relentless anti-gay bullying and abuse, was also repeatedly called
"gay" and a "snitch". Is this how our community initiates young men into "
manhood"?
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