Posted on 11/03/2017 6:49:48 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
The family of a South Carolina girl who committed suicide says she shot herself because she was bullied.
Toni Rivers, 11, confided to friends before her death, saying that “she just couldn’t do this anymore, and she was going home, and she was killing herself,” the family told news station WTOC.
The sixth-grader reportedly returned home Oct. 25 from her Hampton County School District elementary school and shot herself.
Her 14-year-old sister found her lying on her back with a gunshot wound and called 911.
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Dear Lord please comfort her family and forgive her. I don’t know how parents could ever deal with such a horrible thing and I pray I never do.
The shame of this is that all the touchy feely stuff about talking things out has left our children defenseless. Sometime a good punch in the nose gets bullies to back right down better than all the empathy verbiage in the world.
Too many parents not locking up their guns.
I am certain that she is all right, as a child she did not understand what she did.
Her family is living in a hell on Earth now. I pray for their healing.
It was her own gun.
Oh my, look at the image I posted...it actually looks like her.
Yes it does actually.
Wow!
In re your tagline.
If I had children today I would be home-schooling them!!!
If I knew where to send it I would email the family that image...the resemblance is uncanny.
“Family members said the sixth grader committed suicide Wednesday after being bullied at her Hampton County School District 1 elementary school.”
“Amy Thomas, Toni’s mom, said she’d been in contact with her daughter’s school about the bullying for about two months.”
“I’ve had to contact the school on several occasions because of the bullying at school,” Cook said. “The child still continues to bully, making comments [like] ‘you’re ugly.’ She (Kyra) actually got shoved into a bookcase and had her head hurt, and when she came home, she told me it was the same child that had been bullying her. But she said, ‘Oh, I’m sorry,’ as soon as she as she realized she was hurt.”
Cook said the bullying has been ongoing for a year with the school and district taking minimal action to prevent or stop it.
Check out the contact info in this link.
http://m.wtoc.com/wtoc/db_350145/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=ThMPfBPN
I wonder who these bullying kids are....protected class?
Thanks.
I hate to say it but I wondered the same thing.
Poor kid.
Majority Black county, which means the public schools would be overwhelmingly so (as many Whites are sent to private school for obvious reasons). Whether they’re the culprit, however, we don’t know, yet.
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