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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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I don't have words for this.

[the-ogre.livejournal.com]

It angers me hugely, but I don't know what kind of things can be done in situations like this.

Re: I don't have words for this.

[abbismom.livejournal.com]

Quoting those well-written lyrics:

"Teach your children well."

It would surprise me if a teacher hadn't heard the taunting before and chose to ignore it. It would surprise me if the parents of those who had taunted had really, really addressed this issue with their kids. Benign neglect can kill.