Posted on 03/15/2018 3:22:52 PM PDT by BBell
The parents of a 12-year-old Mississippi boy say he killed himself last week after being subjected to intense bullying.
Andrew Leach of Southaven, Mississippi, was found dead at his family’s home March 6. Leach’s parents believe the sixth-grader had been struggling to come to terms with his sexuality, and killed himself after being bullied by fellow students at Southaven Middle School.
“He finally came out with the information at school that he thought he may be bisexual,” Matt Leach told WREG. “I think that really amped up the bullying.”
Leach said Southaven Middle School students had threatened his son with physical violence. “Kids were telling him, ‘We’re gonna put hands on you. You’re not going to make it out of this bathroom.’ Things of that nature,” he said.
Andrew Leach’s mother, Cheryl Hudson, said she had spoken to school administrators about the bullying her son was experiencing, but that she “didn’t know how to handle it.”
“From what we are hearing, there was a group of kids that would go around calling him fat, ugly and worthless,” Hudson told WREG. In a separate interview with Local Memphis, she added, “These kids are awful. They’re mean. They’re cruel.”
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The school and the parents are complicit in this child's death
I bet all 12-year-olds now days are worried sick about being gay.
So just why do people feel the need to inform the rest of the world their sexual preferences?
I. DON’T. WANT. TO. KNOW.
More than that......
I. DON’T. CARE.
If what gays do in the privacy of their own bedrooms is nobody’s business, then they need to keep it that way.
Agreed. When me and my friends were 12 we were riding bikes, playing baseball and such, not worrying about our “sexual identity
Whatever the kid was, he didn’t deserve being bullied like that. Sure kids will be kids but it sounds like the school gave the typical boilerplate anti-bullying response but did nothing.
What gets me is that a 12 year old thought it made sense to tell everyone he was bi-sexual.
They trying to make this kid in to another martyr for the cause.
But note the bullying seems to be not related:
“From what we are hearing, there was a group of kids that would go around calling him fat, ugly and worthless,”
Bully’s are a-holes and need a whupping to put them in their place.
What?
Maybe he got the cracker.
Too old, too explain.
Gosh, I REALLY HOPE that his (possible) Lefty parents weren’t pushing him inoto questioning his sexuality. Lefties are disgusting, so it wouldn’t be a surprise if that was the situation. “Look at me! I got a story on the HuffPo!”
“From what we are hearing, there was a group of kids that would go around calling him fat, ugly and worthless,”
Usually the word "faggot" gets tossed in there somewhere.
My recollection was in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades kids were brutal to each other and any everyone else.
I remember one girl told her friend that her measurements were 40 40 40 and a half. The friend told a boy. He told all the other boys. Nobody ever said anything to her, but every time you saw her you thought 40 40 40 and a half. That had to be a tough way to start life.
The teachers for that age group really earn their pay although I remember one who did it to molest the girls.
Exactly.
If what gays do in the privacy of their own bedrooms is nobody’s business, then they need to keep it that way.
,,,
Exactly.
Yes, sadly, you are probably right.
Went to Catholic school. Only bullying there was done by the Nuns, Brothers and Priests. Anyone else tried to bully, they beat the snot out of you.
That’s all
What killed him was the progressives filling his head with Crap! Imagine being in 6th grade and having to deal with this kind of crap as a child.
Yes but now public middle schools make a big issue out of it, pushing ‘gay is ok’ and such upon kids many of whom are only just beginning to think about sex, let alone other than the standard biological male-female attraction.
Anyway, if he was being bullied for being fat, that is undoubtedly very common. It seems to me that parents can and should do many things if their children are chubby. For example, they can rid their homes of sugary and processed foods, and particularly fat bombs like chips and juices and sodas. And of course they can pretty much force their kids to get out of the house and be active, ideally involved in sports year-round. And they can facilitate this by controlling telephone use and limiting internet and video games at home. Not everyone has good parents but I suspect that most fat kids are the victims of bad leadership. (Note I am not saying all fat kids, just most; obviously, some have real health issues driving it. But most are sitting around eating chips and playing video games instead of getting outside and being active.)
You calling a ten thirteen? All officers responding!
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