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Jamel Myles' mother: 'I blame myself for my son's suicide' [video]
BBC News ^ | 29th August 2018 | BBC News

Posted on 08/29/2018 2:18:19 PM PDT by Ennis85

Nine-year-old Jamel Myles took his own life days after returning to school in Denver, Colorado, following the summer holidays.

His mother, Leia Pierce, says it was because of homophobic bullying. She spoke to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bullying; childabuse; gay; homosexual; jamelmyles; lgbt; lgtb; suicide
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1 posted on 08/29/2018 2:18:19 PM PDT by Ennis85
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To: Ennis85

Probably where the blame belongs.


2 posted on 08/29/2018 2:19:34 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Ennis85

We do, too. You’re not heroic in taking the blame.


3 posted on 08/29/2018 2:20:30 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Ennis85

If it was because of homophobic bullying why does she blame herself?


4 posted on 08/29/2018 2:21:16 PM PDT by Rapscallion (THE REAL COLLUSION IS BETWEEN DEMOCRATS AND RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS.)
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To: Ennis85

She is the one who encouraged and nourished his mental illness.


5 posted on 08/29/2018 2:21:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" height=200> zXSEP5Z, xnKL3lW, RZ9yuyQ. XywCCJd, zQ9Ghyq.)
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To: Ennis85

They will capitalize on this kids death more than the Rutgers kid that jumped off a bridge


6 posted on 08/29/2018 2:21:52 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yup. A fourth grader doesn’t even know what a fag is.


7 posted on 08/29/2018 2:22:43 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Ennis85
At one point the video says:
"Leia has this message for other gay children..."

How can children be gay? If this kid had a sex life at nine years old, that in itself is a problem.
8 posted on 08/29/2018 2:25:57 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: mrmeyer

As a parent, yes, she contributed to a degree. However, none of us are mind readers. It’s only with experience that one can begin to see the signs of potential suicideal thoughts in another. And even then, one can be mistaken.


9 posted on 08/29/2018 2:26:07 PM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: shelterguy

Exactly. I don’t expect to see too may fourth graders hanging out at Boots & Saddle in NYC’s Greenwich Village on Betty Davis Night. :-P


10 posted on 08/29/2018 2:29:23 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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To: Ennis85

kids HAVE impulses.

She hyper-accomodated his very temporary, media-induced “Think I’ll go and try out being a GIRL..!”-kick.

And it killed him.

It was a case of a parent being a FRIEND to her son.


11 posted on 08/29/2018 2:30:17 PM PDT by gaijin
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I wonder how he got the idea to commit suicide. Was it from one of those children’s books that glamorize suicide?


12 posted on 08/29/2018 2:33:11 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Back story....

9-year-old Denver boy dies by suicide after being bullied at school, mother says

‎8‎/‎27‎/‎2018‎ ‎9‎:‎27‎:‎40‎ ‎PM · by the_daug · 98 replies

Boy 9, Dies after 'homophobic abuse'

‎8‎/‎27‎/‎2018‎ ‎5‎:‎26‎:‎36‎ ‎PM · by Ennis85 · 66 replies

Yeah. She SHOULD blame herself

13 posted on 08/29/2018 2:33:23 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Rats, RINO's and O-Tips. They all want Sessions to stay.)
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To: Ennis85

How did a nine year old learn about sodomy? Let alone decide he wanted to practice it?


14 posted on 08/29/2018 2:34:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: shelterguy
I remember reading about a little Jewish boy who was crying because somebody called him a "kike". His mom asked him what that means, and he said, "It's.. it's a colored paper thing on a string that flies in the wind."

Kids don't have to have over-the-top reactions to things they don't even understand.

Give a kid time and space to be a kid.

Don't tell him to walk into school on the first say and "brag" to all the kids in school, so unknowingly, that he's "proud" he's some kind of pervert.

15 posted on 08/29/2018 2:41:36 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his)
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To: Rapscallion

Because she pushed him to be a poofter.
No normal non-molested nine year old is out there saying “I’m fine with packing fudge”.
They’re out there talking about cartoons, video games, and toys.


16 posted on 08/29/2018 2:42:14 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Mom.

Image result for Leia Pierce shirt

Notice her shirt

“Love is Love”
“Black Lives Matter”
“Climate Change is Real”
“Immigrants Make America Great”
“Womens Rights are Human Rights”

Then there is her FB page. This woman is sick, SICK, SICK

“Don’t drink after me I sucked dick and forgot to brush my teeth..-me”

17 posted on 08/29/2018 2:46:16 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Rats, RINO's and O-Tips. They all want Sessions to stay.)
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To: BenLurkin
It's not about sexuality. It's about feeling "different" and not being able to figure out why.

Nine year olds most like don't know about sexual acts, but they do know when people are saying things to hurt them and often they don't have the defenses to cope with the insults.

A child may learn that "gay" means boys liking boys rather than girls (or girls liking girls rather than boys) or boys acting more like girls than they are "supposed to" (or girls acting more like boys than they are "supposed to") and when they get attacked for something like that, they may not know how to deal with the bullies.

18 posted on 08/29/2018 2:56:07 PM PDT by x
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Somebody messed that kid up. It’s sickening.


19 posted on 08/29/2018 2:58:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

No father around, apparently.


20 posted on 08/29/2018 3:11:05 PM PDT by x
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