School: Boy, 8, who killed himself never said he was bullied

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Lisa Cornwell, Associated Press
Updated 6:38 pm, Friday, May 12, 2017


CINCINNATI (AP) — An 8-year-old boy shown on surveillance video being knocked to the floor unconscious at school two days before he killed himself told staff he had fainted and never said he had been bullied or assaulted, a school spokeswoman said Friday.

Gabriel Taye's mother didn't learn of the bullying until her attorneys saw a copy of an email written by a Cincinnati police homicide detective in an investigative file that describes the scene outside a boys' bathroom, her lawyers said. The attorneys have questioned why the mother was told he fainted on Jan. 24 when the video shows he had been injured by another boy at Carson Elementary School.
 
The school spokeswoman said administrators weren't aware of the recording until days later when the detective investigating Gabriel's suicide requested surveillance videos from security officials.
 
Meanwhile, the Hamilton County coroner said she is reopening the investigation into Gabriel's suicide. He hanged himself with a necktie in the bedroom of his Cincinnati apartment on Jan. 26.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Ohio-coroner-reopens-case-in-suicide-of-bullied-11141530.php

[whathehell]

1. A little boy

A little boy of eight? Killing himself?...What is WRONG with this world?!?

[iluvtennis]

3. Yeah, that is so troubling and sad.

[angstlessk]

2. Let me get this..a little boy was found collapsed on a hallway floor in school..

AND the school had video tape of the location and did NOT review the tape immediately?

I call that neglect!

[Oneironaut]

12. That's the "official story" (wink wink nudge nudge)

Schools always bury their shit. They have the ultimate mafia wife mentality. I'm surprised that tape didn't get "lost" or "corrupted."

[colorado_ufo]

4. This is all too sick and heartbreaking for words.

[luvMIdog]

5. poor little guy

[bucolic_frolic]

6. oh my

there is much wrong in the world

[Tatiana]

7. Good Lord! That poor, beautiful, precious boy.

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Everyone responsible at that school should be held responsible. Schools should be an island of safety for students.



http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/8-year-old-s-suicide-leads-cincinnati-school-release-video-n758896

[LeftInTX]

16. What a cutie......

[They_Live]

8. Something is wrong with this story

[Kittycow]

9. ....

[onecaliberal]

10. :

[Oneironaut]

11. Even children have pride. To be male and bullied is "weak."

We poison minds with this nonsense at a young age. Sometimes, the only way out seems to be the most drastic.

Feminists get laughed at for pointing this out. Men need feminism just as much as women.

[JudyM]

13. He was probably afraid to tell what really happened.

[LeftInTX]

15. That's the first thing I thought

Poor kid

[JudyM]

17. Yeah, and poor mom, too. Can't imagine how she must be so upset at the school and at herself,

probably, too, for not asking more questions. But how could she have known to do that? There's a lesson here for us all.

[BeyondGeography]

14. Too young, too sad, too cruel

[Lucky Luciano]

18. That poor boy. That poor mother. So sad. nt