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http://www.thebostonchannel.com/cnn-news/19141470/detail.html

BOSTON -- Sirdeaner Walker, 44, has been surrounded by family after discovering her son, Carl Walker-Hoover, 11, hanging by an extension cord in the third-floor landing of the family's Northampton Avenue home in Springfield.

Walker said her boy, upset yet again over another bullying episode at school, had committed suicide.

"They were always saying, 'you're gay, you must be gay, you act like a girl,'" said Walker.

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When I was bullied in school, I never divulged that to my parents. I somehow felt that the bullying belong to the world of children and that adults belonged to the world of adults.

It sounds as if this mother *was* trying to do something, though - she just wasn't able to get any traction.

I'm so sorry for this child -- and I hate that being perceived as gay is so damaging in this culture that a child might kill himself over it.