Posted on 08/27/2018 3:26:36 PM PDT by Ennis85
A nine-year-old boy has killed himself after enduring four days of homophobic bullying at school in Denver, Colorado, his mother says.
Leia Pierce told KDVR-TV that her son, Jamel Myles, revealed to her over the summer that he was gay.
She said Jamel wanted to go to school and tell his classmates because he was "proud" to be gay.
Denver Public Schools (DPS) say crisis counsellors have been made available to students at Jamel's elementary school.
The school system sent letters to families on Friday about the additional counselling services for students.
The letter, addressed to Shoemaker families, says Jamel's death "is an unexpected loss for our school community" and offers parents signs of stress to watch for in their children.
"Our goal is to partner with you in sharing this news with your child in the most appropriate way possible, with as much support as may be needed, so please feel free to reach out about how you want to handle this."
DPS Spokesman Will Jones told the BBC that teachers at Shoemaker "are creating a space for students to share how they are feeling and to process their emotions".
Fourth and fifth grade teachers will also be calling families individually to check on students.
"Our priority right now is to look at all the concerns raised in this case, to keep all our students safe and to do a fair and thorough review of the facts surrounding this tragic loss," he said in an emailed statement.
Denver police are investigating the boy's death as a suicide.
Jamel's body was found at home on Thursday, Ms Pierce told local media.
He had begun attending fourth grade at the Joe Shoemaker Elementary School on Monday, she said.
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At nine years old all boys I remembered wanted nothing to do with girls because they were Icky. We all wanted to be members of The HE-MAN WOMAN HATER’S CLUB.
When we turned 13, we began to notice the girls were developing, nicely! Suddenly they weren’t Icky anymore.
In my day most 9 year old boys thought their pecker was only for pissing, I suspect some adult QUEER COACHING here.
My first thought - most 9 year old’s have no idea of their sexuality.
Second thought - he may think he’s homosexual because he was molested. And that type of sexual abuse adds to the risk he’d commit suicide at any age.
There’s a deliberate method to this.
Before puberty, boys and girls tend to naturally segregate. The boys spend most of their time with boys and most of their friends are boys. Tell these kids that homosexuality is loving men, and they’ll wonder if their best friend is a love interest .. they’re intentionally normalizing this with the intent of making a few more percent of the population choose that “orientation”.
Seems like this poor child was abused way before - how can a per-pubescent child have a concept of being “gay”? Possible the suicide was just as tied to the mental distress of being encouraged to be something unnatural and that shouldn’t have even been in his vocabulary. Sad.
If a 9-year-old thinks that he’s “gay” then I guarantee that he’s been either sexually or mentally abused.
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