Posted on 06/14/2013 4:44:07 AM PDT by markomalley
Charlie Booth, 16, was worried he would get into trouble after police visited to discuss sexual text messages he sent to a girl.
He was described as a “remarkable young man” by his headteacher at the prestigious £10,000-a-year Gads Hill School in Higham, Kent, set in the former home of Charles Dickens.
Charlie was found dead by his parents on March 8 at their home in Watling Street, Cobham, Kent.
The coroner ruled that Charlie took his own life.
Hours before his death police were called to the family's home between 6pm and 7pm to reports of text messages of a sexual nature being sent to a girl, the inquest at Gravesend's Old Town Hall heard.
Det Sgt Lee Neiles, of Kent Police, told the inquest: "She wanted them to stop.
"Nick (Charlie's father) gave him words of advice and they went to KFC in Valley Drive in Gravesend and Nick said he (Charlie) had to be careful about contacting young girls.
"They had a KFC but Charlie seemed withdrawn."
They returned home and Charlie went to his bedroom.
Around 10pm his mother Julia came back from an evening with her friends in Bluewater to hear about the complaints made against Charlie.
She told her son off and confiscated his mobile phone.
Around 30 minutes later while Mr and Mrs Booth were downstairs they heard a loud bang.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
“with so many mixed messages out there” No kidding.
Not excuse bad/criminal behavior on the part of young men but last night I was going home with my young teenaged son from an event and we stopped to get a soda. There were 5 girls in there and everyone of them had on shorts up to their crotch and tight fitting a-frame t-shirts and their bra straps hanging out and more make-up than a rodeo clown. What exactly do these girls want and expect when it doesn’t quite go the way the thought it would?
“They had a KFC but Charlie seemed withdrawn.”
;-)
Unless they're gay.
A ‘whipping’ of a 16-year-old boy?
You seem eager to pick an unprovoked fight. Have a better day than the one you’ve been having.
Oops, my mistake! Ordinarily intentionally self inflicted does not, in fact qualify for a Darwin Award (there have been some notable exceptions). Your post, citing someone who removes themselves from the gene pool in an extraordinary act of stupidity would almost seem to, however. Kid messes up, Girl wants him to stop, calls police. Police go to get him to stop. Mom tells him off and takes away phone. BANG! Kid self imposes death penalty. For texting / sexting? For having his phone taken away? For getting in trouble with the Law? None of this seems worth dying for. The note probably tells something...
Kids lose many of their best years to schooling.
I missed 13 days per quarter and used them VERY wisely.
(1) He engaged in some cheeky but ultimately harmless texting.
(2) The girl he texted completely overreacted and should never have called the police.
(3) His decision to commit suicide was a respectable one, and should be blamed on other people.
Dissent from this "logic" is not permitted, is morally wrong to even contemplate, and probably means that you are an opponent of marriage or something.
Thank goodness, he didn’t do it while driving... /s
You’re the sensitive one.
Good for you!
Even though my father was a strong advocate of schooling as a tool for “keeping kids in line”, he kept us home from time to time so we could learn stuff.
That was in the 70s. Schools were awful places even then. But the “Boys are problems” and “Hit it! Hit it! Hit it!” siege had not yet begun.
I don’t think I’d survive schooling today.
Why do you and I let things like that distract us?
I am sure they really meant KGC. KFC is so yesteryear... (yum)
Firstly:
“This was a suicide, and does not qualify”.
Being dumb enough to kill oneself is a bad idea - there is a world of people just brimming with those whom Texans describe as follows: “Some folks just need shootin’.”
Were the text messages sufficiently perverse, he could immigrate to America and become a Democrat.
I like your tagline, but one ‘teensy’ change - Islam is a neuter plural noun and hence - Islam Delendum Est. more info at http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2004/12/14/delenda-est-shouldnt-be-destroyed.htm She looks not guilty to me.
Silly me, I learned manners from my parents and grandparents at HOME. I was expected to use them everywhere, but my sisters and I learned them at home.
Kill the upper classes
Kill the spirit of invention, replace it with glorious diversity
Kill objectivity
Kill superiority
Kill the Individual, replace his soul with ‘notions’ of individuality
Kill the composer
Kill the schools
Kill the guardians of culture
Kill the borders
Kill the castles
Kill the boy who dreams of being special
Kill aggression kill the hunter
Kill the heterosexual kill the poet kill the passion
Kill those who would cite Orwell and Huxley
Kill the Man.
“Submission.” Allahu Akhbar.
Makes me think of that old Police song:
I guess this is our last goodbye
And you don’t care so I won’t cry
But you’ll be sorry when I’m dead
And all this guilt will be on your head
I guess you’d call it suicide
But I’m too full to swallow my pride
I can’t....I can’t...I can’t stand losing.......can’t stand losing you...
We had a 16 yr. old foster daughter years ago that we bought nice jeans for. We let her wear them to school. My wife gets a call saying that the girls attire was inappropriate, that her shorts were to short. When my wife got to the school she found out that the "little Angel" had snuck a pair of Daisy Dukes and changed into those.
My wife had her change into a pair of my baggy sweats and red hunting suspenders. She then informed the child in front of the school nurse, Principal, and Guidance counselor, that if she pulled a stunt like this again; the sweats and suspenders would be her normal school attire.
Problem solved.
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