7-Year Old Commits Suicide

[TheGodlessUtopian]

On Wednesday, police in Detroit discovered the body of a 7-year-old boy who had apparently killed himself after being bullied and harassed by students (http://www.queerty.com/bullied-7-year-old-boy-commits-suicide-in-detroit-home-20120525/#) at his school. The boy, who is not being named, hung himself with a belt from his bunk bed while his 14-year-old sister watched helplessly through the locked door’s keyhole.
While there’s no indication he was gay, it does appear he was bullied in part because of his perceived sexual orientation.
The boy’s mother told authorities her son (http://www.freep.com/article/20120524/NEWS01/120524018/7-year-old-Detroit-boy-dead-suicide-hanging-Godbee?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE) “had been depressed due to her recent separation from his father; the fact that he had been bullied continuously by the children at school, in addition to the constant teasing that he had endured because he was the only boy in the home of eight females.”


Full story here: http://www.queerty.com/bullied-7-year-old-boy-commits-suicide-in-detroit-home-20120525/#ixzz1vtsV058r



Just to remind everyone that this is still a great problem (Bullying).

[Stand Your Ground]

That's fucked. Kids who bully...well, I don't want to anger anyone but saying something that might be 'too much', but something needs to be done with them.

[Brosa Luxemburg]

Wow, fuck people.

[Comrade Samuel]

Just disgusting

Is it just me or is every generation getting more and more fucked up than the last?

[Yuppie Grinder]

Just disgusting

Is it just me or is every generation getting more and more fucked up than the last?

I'd say we're getting progressively less and less fucked up, generally.

[Brosa Luxemburg]

I'd say we're getting progressively less and less fucked up, generally.

Yeah, as bad as homophobia is now, it was much worse back in the day. Again, not an excuse for it and are society is HIGHLY homophobic.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I utterly hate and despise those who regurgitate that shit about bullying "building character" or somehow being a necessary part of growing up. It isn't. It's assault and harassment.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

So sad...kids don't get what effect their words and actions can have when they bully and tease others, need to be educated as much as possible about these cases in the hope it becomes a rarer occurence.

[Althusser]

I can't even imagine what that seven year old was going through. It must have been the bullying that made him do it.

My parents separated when I was seven because my dad was a pretty abusive, so I'm pretty sure it was the bullying from school. That always had more of an effect on me than anything else really.

[Positivist]

I am not saying I support bullies but I don't blame the bullies themselves but rather the system that produces them. It is not as if kids bully out of inherent evil, it is the environment of struggle that exists in social relations which drives them to do so. I am not saying that socialism will immediately abolish all bullying though it will significantly decrease social antagonisms.

[Lobotomy]

it's amazing how suicidal tendencies can appear in children at such a young age. sorry if this is kind of off topic as it doesn't really relate to bullying, but there was a kid in my kindergarten class who attempted suicide at 5 years old. His mother had him when she was 14 or something and her parents kicked her out of the house- she ended up being a prostitute and living in her car with her child, and she had to just leave him alone in the car for hours on end because she didn't have any other options. I learned about all this years later because my mother was friends with my teacher. it just blew my mind that a 5 year old child could have the capacity to attempt suicide..

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

Do 7 year olds have sexual orientation?
I don't think I had that when I was 7.
Really sick though that this happens.

[Rafiq]

That's fucked. Kids who bully...well, I don't want to anger anyone but saying something that might be 'too much', but something needs to be done with them.

Shut up.

Bullies and their victims are both victims of Bourgeous degeneracy.
That "bully" you hate so much probably has problems at home.

As for wealthy high school "bullies"... Giving them an ass whooping doesn't hurt. They're cowards who are nothing without daddy's money. Socked one in the face couple months back and they didn't do shit back.

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[Regicollis]

There must have been a really sick culture at his school. The bullying must have gone on for quite some time. Why wasn't there any adults who noticed it and stopped it?

I think it is very important that schools promote an inclusive and supportive group culture among students. If not you'll easily end up with something along the lines of The Lord Of The Flies.

[La Guaneña]

Wow, the saddest part is that the bullies are most probably 7 years old as well. 7 years old, man. I don't even have much memories from being 7, and it troubles me to think that kids that young are actually killing each other over something as complicated as sexuality.

I disagree with the posters that say that the newer generations are getting more or less fucked up, it's just the way that the fucked up shows that is different.

Homophobia was a lot bigger in the 50's than now, but from what I hear from old people, actual manifestations of sexuality(not including rape, domestic abuses and such) only started happening around puberty, or even after.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

The issue was perceived sexual orientation.

[ComradeGrant]

Everything about this is messed up. That poor kid probably went through hell. On the other hand, no one just bullies someone for no reason. Those kids are probably going through some shit as well, and now being responsible for the death of another person. They will not grow up healthily. Man, fuck this whole culture.

[Firebrand]

I've been on both sides of the bullying situation. Never anything serious just name calling and exclusion, and I have to say that I would never have bullied anyone if I hadn't been bullied myself previously, not because of any deep seated psychological scarring but just because I was afraid of it happening again. If you are afraid of being excluded or bullied yourself if you don't go along with bullying then quite often you find yourself going along with it, and kids attitudes feed off each other, causing the situation to escalate. I stopped before it went too far but i've seen kids who were less self aware or more thoughtless egging each other on until the situation goes much further than any of them wanted.
All too often kids don't know when to stop and the big question is why did no adults step in to stop them.

[GPDP]

As a victim of bullying myself (though nowhere near as badly as this kid apparently was), I truly sympathize. I do find it troubling that apparently not one adult stepped in to try to stop the bullying, but then again, kids can be crafty when they want to be, and can easily continue the bullying behind adults' backs, whether it's by bullying only on private settings or lying to adults about whether they're still bullying or not. At least, that was my experience. I had enough of it when I got burned with a glue gun, so my parents and I complained to the principal, who then sat me and the bully down, and the asshole lied straight through his teeth about how he didn't mean to hurt me and he was sorry. He ended up escalating the bullying afterwards and brought his friends along to gang up on me as well.

Of course, he got blown up by an IED in Afghanistan not long ago, so I guess what comes around goes around. Not that I'm saying anyone deserves such a fate, but I didn't exactly shed a tear either. I don't know if that means I never got over the bullying or whatever. Perhaps the damage he did was greater than I like to admit.

[doesn't even make sense]

To me bullying just represents the worst there is in human beings. Callous disregard of what other people are going through is bad enough and probably a bigger overall source of suffering in the world, but there is just something uniquely disturbing about bullying as a phenomenon. A bully by definition understands the misery they are putting another person through, that's the whole point. It's easy to come to terms with the fucked up things someone without empathy can do. It's much harder to come to terms with how a human being who may otherwise act completely normal can knowingly put another person through hell just for the sake of it.

[El Oso Rojo]

Shut up.

Bullies and their victims are both victims of Bourgeous degeneracy.
That "bully" you hate so much probably has problems at home.

As for wealthy high school "bullies"... Giving them an ass whooping doesn't hurt. They're cowards who are nothing without daddy's money. Socked one in the face couple months back and they didn't do shit back.

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Everybody have problems at home and some are even worst. That is not a fucking excuse to bully someone. They do need the shit beat out of them.

[El Oso Rojo]

Everything about this is messed up. That poor kid probably went through hell. On the other hand, no one just bullies someone for no reason. Those kids are probably going through some shit as well, and now being responsible for the death of another person. They will not grow up healthily. Man, fuck this whole culture.

It could be they fucking love it as well.

[LeftAbove]

It could be they fucking love it as well.

That and the fact there's a wide spectrum of mental disorders that lead to this kind of behavior. I mean anti-social personality disorder and the like.

[RedIndividualist]

Well its also the responsibility of teachers to solve problems like these and punish the bully, I've seen it happen that teachers don't solve it properly and make the victim apologizing by saying "its also partly your fault" and leave it at that which is completely off the table and solves nothing at all, there is almost never any justice for the victims and some end up mentally disordered, insecure and in the worst case suïcidal because of pressure, stress and helplesness they feel every day. Alot of school massacres seem to be coming from bullying and students seeing no other way out in this strict social hierarchy.

I think its because of insecurity that people bully and restrict others their freedom by creating a "social hell". Its always because the victim doesn't dress the "right way" or that he is not outgoing or "not fun enough". Insecurity the media feeds the youth, because it sells good. And yes I am that terrible, I blame it on the nature of capitalism. I would even go as far as saying that it is in a certain way comparable by how African-Americans are being treated in the ghetto's.. but thats just how I view it.

There is not any justice for oppression...

[tallguy]

Shut up.

Bullies and their victims are both victims of Bourgeous degeneracy.
That "bully" you hate so much probably has problems at home....
Completely agree Rafiq

[Tenka]

Well its also the responsibility of teachers to solve problems like these and punish the bully, I've seen it happen that teachers don't solve it properly and make the victim apologizing by saying "its also partly your fault" and leave it at that which is completely off the table and solves nothing at all, there is almost never any justice for the victims and some end up mentally disordered, insecure and in the worst case suïcidal because of pressure, stress and helplesness they feel every day. Alot of school massacres seem to be coming from bullying and students seeing no other way out in this strict social hierarchy.

I think its because of insecurity that people bully and restrict others their freedom by creating a "social hell". Its always because the victim doesn't dress the "right way" or that he is not outgoing or "not fun enough". Insecurity the media feeds the youth, because it sells good. And yes I am that terrible, I blame it on the nature of capitalism. I would even go as far as saying that it is in a certain way comparable by how African-Americans are being treated in the ghetto's.. but thats just how I view it.

There is not any justice for oppression...

Welcome to the forum. Please do not resurrect two-year-old threads for news stories though, unless there is new relevant information to add.

As for this case, there seems to be a certain want of communication within the family when a 7-year-old with several sisters is bullied at school and this results in him killing himself. Perhaps the bullying, since it was in part due to having so many sisters, had made him feel that confiding in his family was the last thing he'd want to do. I dunno. Teachers really ought to be trained to notice this shit and deal with it sensibly before it results in a little kid killing himself.

[Sentinel]

This thread is indeed a zombie from 2012, so as pointed out, please do not bump old threads like this. I'm closing it, but feel free to start a topic re: bullying, corporal punishment or any of the other issues debated here.

Thread closed.