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Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
Sun May 14, 2017, 04:26 PM May 2017

Video shows 'bullying' incident days before 8-year-old took his life

Source: CNN

(CNN) — On Mother's Day, Cornelia Reynolds will remember her "only child, my best friend and my first true love."

Security footage shows her 8-year-old son, Gabriel Taye, falling unconscious at a Cincinnati school in an incident that may have led to the boy's suicide two days later, an attorney for his family said.

After his death, a Cincinnati police homicide detective reviewed security video from the boy's school -- Carson Elementary School.

In an email, the detective told school administrators he noticed an incident in a school bathroom before the boy died. The detective said he saw "bullying" and behavior that "could even rise to the level of criminal assault," according to a copy of an email

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/13/health/ohio-boy-suicide-bullying/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist



Video shows the child was knocked unconscious.
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Video shows 'bullying' incident days before 8-year-old took his life (Original Post) Sunlei May 2017 OP
This is why we can't have nice things. Initech May 2017 #1
This goes FAR beyond Trump NobodyHere May 2017 #5
The whole republican party is full of liars and bullies. Initech May 2017 #7
I saw this on the news this past week left-of-center2012 May 2017 #2
This is exactly what I was thinking. OrwellwasRight May 2017 #8
We have a big bully in the White House who is supposed to be a role model for children kimbutgar May 2017 #3
This is beyond tragic. smirkymonkey May 2017 #4
This breaks my heart. spiderpig May 2017 #6

Initech

(99,914 posts)
1. This is why we can't have nice things.
Sun May 14, 2017, 04:53 PM
May 2017

And with the bully in chief at the helm it's only going to get worse. No parent or kid should have to go through this.

Initech

(99,914 posts)
7. The whole republican party is full of liars and bullies.
Sun May 14, 2017, 10:40 PM
May 2017

And they've been lying and bullying their way to the top since 1980. When you have bullies in charge, it only emboldens the bullies. True story - I graduated in high school in 1998. I found out the guy who bullied me in high school, I found out his parents shilled for Dole in 1996. I didn't want anything to do with the GOP after that.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
2. I saw this on the news this past week
Sun May 14, 2017, 05:17 PM
May 2017

And I thought,
what kind of society are we living in
where an 8 year old knows how to make a noose out of a tie?

When I was 8 ... well, that was 62 years ago, I didn't even know what a noose was.

OrwellwasRight

(5,170 posts)
8. This is exactly what I was thinking.
Mon May 15, 2017, 02:57 PM
May 2017

I can't comprehend being suicidal at 8, or knowing how to tie a noose. And to be clear, mental illness runs in my family; I'm not saying this because I have lived some kind of charmed life of family joy. It's just that 8 is so young to even know that level of despondency or to have the knowledge of how to make suicidal thoughts come true.

kimbutgar

(20,882 posts)
3. We have a big bully in the White House who is supposed to be a role model for children
Sun May 14, 2017, 07:56 PM
May 2017

Bullying has become acceptable in certain states that happen to be red.

In California we have state anti bullying curriculum that I have used in classrooms.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
4. This is beyond tragic.
Sun May 14, 2017, 08:58 PM
May 2017

Poor, sweet little boy. I can't imagine having to endure such horror at such a young age.

spiderpig

(10,419 posts)
6. This breaks my heart.
Sun May 14, 2017, 09:35 PM
May 2017

I wholeheartedly agree that Trump is setting an example for bullies of all ages. Remember the old meme when we were growing up? "You could be President some day."

Like the Trump obscenity?

Poor little Gabriel. Eight years old. That smiling face. I just can't go there.

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