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Parents Of 12-Year-Old Say Son Killed Himself After Being Bullied Over Sexuality
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/ ^ | 3/14/18 | Curtis M. Wong

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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TOPICS: Education; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: 12yearold; bullied; bullying; mississippi; sexuality; suicide; teens
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To: BBell
“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.”

Aaaand why are 12-YEAR OLDS even discussing such matters in school?? The left has destroyed the minds of today's youth 1000 times what the KGB accomplished in the 1960s

21 posted on 03/15/2018 4:24:40 PM PDT by montag813
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To: BBell
He finally came out with the information at school that he thought he may be bisexual

What does it mean he "came out with the information"? Did the school have an assembly in which he told everyone? Did he hijack the mic during the morning announcements? Post it on the lunch-room menu? Maybe put up a poster next to the trophy case?

Why would he make a big deal out of telling anyone, then go home and wail because now everyone knows? Kids can be cruel. Kids can be crueler if you're stupid.

22 posted on 03/15/2018 4:34:19 PM PDT by IronJack (A)
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To: BBell

The school and the parents are complicit in this child’s death

Absolutely right. No good is going to come from shoving this BS down kids throats it is horrendous and is only getting worse. We are one Judge away from young girls having to shower with some creep claiming he’s a she. It’s already happening in some prisons


23 posted on 03/15/2018 4:39:29 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: BBell

HOw does a 12 year old have a sexuality?

My 12-year old son hasn’t a clue about girls yet. I suspect that will change in 7th grade, but in 6th grade, this kid should be doing homework and sports.


24 posted on 03/15/2018 4:41:04 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: BBell

I thought bullying was not allowed in school anymore. This is really stupid and a waste of human life. Everyone involved in this mess should be ashamed of themselves. Parents should have been more active in parenting like ASKING QUESTIONS when the kid was feeling bad. Horrible for the parents, but they should have been more aware of their child’s outlook on life.


25 posted on 03/15/2018 4:46:47 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: metmom

Doesn’t seem like this kid said a damn word. It seems the bully’s in school called him one and threatened to beat him up because he wasn’t a sports hero or some dumb thing. Kids today are nasty. The parents were the failures in all of this.


26 posted on 03/15/2018 4:48:32 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: vladimir998

At 12, where do they even get the idea of queer wrestling? Parents, curriculum, Hollywood, media?

That there is even a “struggle with sexuality” is astonishing, but it’s common, since God is driven out of the society, dismissed, and Christians ceded their field to Marx.


27 posted on 03/15/2018 4:52:02 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Chisto Rey! Public education/Academia are a farm team for more Marxists coming. InfinitTheum.)
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To: BBell
And bisexuals. Let me explain something to you. There is no bisexual. You either ______, or you do not ______. I mean, what do these guys do, get up in the morning and flip a coin to decide?

so saith the Diceman

28 posted on 03/15/2018 5:01:20 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: ifinnegan
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.

At that age I was bullied for being the "new kid from out of town". It actually boiled up to a gang fight outside the doors of the school when I was on my way home. Thankfully, a number of kids stood up for me.

Later, in seventh grade, I was bullied by someone who thought I was weak.

So yes, bullying occurs all the time.

A kid who has low self esteem due to sexual confusion, thanks in many cases to liberals, could be driven to suicide. However, many in this situation consider suicide even without the outside stimulus of being bullied. It's just a tough situation.

29 posted on 03/15/2018 5:01:36 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: IronJack
I doubt he made a public pronouncement.

He may just have told one or two people he thought were friends.

Stuff like that gets around in schools.

Then again, nowadays anything is possible.

30 posted on 03/15/2018 5:06:14 PM PDT by x
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To: tenthirteen

Catholic school nuns used to wallop me but good. I may have even deserved it. Makes me wish schools could bring back corporal punishment.


31 posted on 03/15/2018 5:14:30 PM PDT by confederatecarpetbag
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To: BBell
The parent is a nut or clueless .
A 12 year old should not be interested in this crap.
Kids should be protected from there own bad decisions .
32 posted on 03/15/2018 5:25:48 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves every day)
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To: BBell

Adults told this child and his classmates that genital lust should be the focus of life ... at 12 years old.

I hope they’re happy now.


33 posted on 03/15/2018 5:35:11 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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To: LeoTDB69
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.

You know what? That's not the issue, the issue is that the Parent's let this kid down if he didn't understand he was a male and that gay sex and attraction are wrong.

More than likely, given the complete and utter selfishness at the root of homosexuality, his parents probably spoiled him to death, didn't give him the proper parenting, and didn't teach him to be self-reliant or self-responsible.

I could care less about the bullying, the boy had choice. He did not choose wisely.

And don't bother trying to convince me he was responsible at his age for his choices. He was.
34 posted on 03/15/2018 6:18:50 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: BBell

No kid should be bullied (if that even happened). No kid at age 12 should be talking at school about his/her/its/zir/whatevernonsense’s sexuality.


35 posted on 03/15/2018 6:30:28 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: BBell
“He finally came out with the information at school that he thought he may be bisexual,”

So his school planted the thought in his mind that he was bi-sexual and then allowed the other children to bully him.

This must be the "socialization" that home schooled children miss out on.

36 posted on 03/15/2018 6:34:11 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
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To: Revel
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.

That's right.

Twelve year olds don't think of that kind of stuff on their own. They have to be introduced to the concepts.

37 posted on 03/15/2018 6:36:40 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: BBell

In a sane world, today’s “educators” would be prosecuted for child abuse.


38 posted on 03/15/2018 7:46:56 PM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: BBell

People are evil for teaching little kids this garbage.
Death by suicide, death by disease, violence, etc. No sane person would want that kind of life.


39 posted on 03/15/2018 8:00:38 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Ouderkirk

12 is the traditional hormone age.


40 posted on 03/15/2018 9:29:35 PM PDT by MrChips (Ad sapientiam pertinet aeternarum rerum cognitio intellectualis - St. Augustine)
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