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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6482131/Alabama-girl-9-committed-suicide-classmates-taunted-having-white-friend-family-says.html
You think you're white because you ride with that white boy': Bullied black Alabama girl, 9, commits suicide after classmates taunted her for having a white friend and told her to 'kill yourself'
allgood33
(1,584 posts)It's not an easy job to hang yourself when you are a short kid.
Luciferous
(6,084 posts)sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)Or jump over a stair rail. It's not hard if you're determined.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Luciferous
(6,084 posts)Initech
(100,099 posts)Great example Melania is setting!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)The family of McKenzie Adams, a student at U.S. Jones Elementary School since 2015, has said that bullying led her to commit suicide.
In an emailed statement sent Tuesday by Alex Braswell, attorney for the Demopolis City Board of Education, the school system conducted an internal investigation into the familys claims.
We have concluded our internal investigation to the allegations of bullying which led to this senseless death. There have been no findings of any reports of bullying by either the student or family. The findings of this internal investigation are consistent with the results of the investigation of the Linden (Alabama) Police Department at this point in time, according to the statement.
https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/20181211/school-says-no-reports-of-bullying-of-mckenzie-adams-of-linden
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)I dont understand how a young child can commit suicide. Where were the school officials and her teachers when this bullying and hate was going on?
LisaL
(44,974 posts)Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)As per WaPo: Other students may be able to shed light on the situation, Police Chief Alston said, but the police investigation was made more difficult by the young age of McKenzie and her classmates. Theres resistance from parents who dont want to get their kids caught up in this," he said, calling the events tragic.
Harris told the Tuscaloosa News that her niece had been forced to transfer out of a previous school because of bullying, which prompted her mother and grandmother to complain to the Alabama State Board of Education.
Timothy Thurman, the superintendent of the Linden City School District, told NBC News that Adams had been enrolled in kindergarten at Linden Elementary School for only 22 days, and had left for unknown reasons.
The neighboring Pine Hill Police Department mourned the 9-year-olds death in a Facebook post, saying Adams was a VICTIM of BULLYING." And that to me is the more likely narrative. This is not over yet and may never be settled but smells like a cover-up to me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/12/year-olds-family-says-she-hung-herself-after-racist-bullying-including-taunts-kill-yourself/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3c99adcf5453
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)And parents dont want their children involved. If it took place on school grounds there must be some teachers and or officials who were aware of it.