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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-09-30 22:34
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NEW YORK (CBS) Seth Walsh, a 13-year-old California middle school student, died in the hospital on Tuesday, days after he attempted to take his own life after reportedly enduring relentless bullying.
Seth, a student at Jacobsen Middle School in Tehachapi, Calif., was found unconscious and not breathing on Sept. 19 after he apparently tried to hang himself from a tree in his backyard, according to a police report obtained by The Bakersfield Californian.
Friends told NBC affiliate KGET that Seth had been picked on for years because he was gay.
Police investigators interviewed some of the young people who taunted Seth the day he hanged himself, and determined despite the tragic outcome of their ridicule, their actions do not constitute a crime, reported KGET.
"Several of the kids that we talked to broke down into tears," Jeff Kermode, Tehachapi Police Chief, said. "They had never expected an outcome such as this."
"[Bullying] is obviously something we're looking at," Sgt. Wyatt Empey told The Bakersfield Californian.
Seth was rushed to the hospital and was placed in life support in critical condition, but according to TehachapiNews.com, he succumbed to his injuries Tuesday.
Seth attended Jacobsen Middle School last year before transferring into independent study. Tehachapi Union School District Superintendent Richard Swanson told The Bakersfield Californian that Seth was a good student and liked by the faculty.
"He was different. He knew he was different," Seth's mother, Judy Walsh said according to TehachapiNews.com. "He was a very loving boy, very kind. He had a beautiful smile. He liked fashion, his friends, talking on the phone. He was artistic and very bright."
Judy Walsh hopes her son's death is a wake up call to the community to "develop more tolerance for different people."
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my, my
must be suicide week.
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Phunkie wrote on 2010-09-30 22:34
GAY PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
BE STRONG.
DON'T COMMIT SUICIDE.
:( :(
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Justified wrote on 2010-09-30 22:42
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Jando wrote on 2010-09-30 23:01
Thats why you don't come out of the closet till you're in college. So many things can go wrong when doing it when you in high school...
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starpaw7 wrote on 2010-09-30 23:04
Quote from Phunkie;171886:
GAY PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
BE STRONG.
DON'T COMMIT SUICIDE.
:( :(
In that matter, every person :T_T:
Quote from Jando;171923:
Thats why you don't come out of the closet till you're in college. So many things can go wrong when doing it when you in high school...
Damn you homophobia :gloom2:
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abc33kr wrote on 2010-09-30 23:20
Cough coward cough.
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Moppy wrote on 2010-09-30 23:24
Homosexual kid suicide week. :\
This is horrible.
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Time wrote on 2010-09-30 23:26
Dam, this is a crappy week.
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Phunkie wrote on 2010-09-30 23:26
Quote from abc33kr;171955:
Cough coward cough.
Okay, no.
Some people just aren't as strong.
Have you ever been bullied? It can be a kid's worst nightmare in 8th or 9th grade.
Doesn't even have to be about your sexuality. What if you I picked on you for having an ugly face? And I constantly, constantly made fun of you. And all my friends laughed at you every time you passed by, screaming, "LOOK AT THAT UGLY IDIOT."
You would feel bad. You'd feel horrible actually. You would start thinking you are in fact ugly and you wouldn't wanna go to school anymore.
My bullying could drive you to want to kill yourself.
Can I blame you for being a "coward"? I could, but I'd look like an idiot for not knowing the situation or the person myself.
Sometimes people just can't take it. You obviously haven't been in a situation like this, so stop calling these people "cowards."
Quote from Justified;171905:
It's suicide week? In that case...
Former 'Kitchen Nightmares' chef Joseph Cerniglia dies in suicide leap from GW Bridge three years after eerie warning from Gordon Ramsay - NYPOST.com
Although this one wasn't gay...
Crazy. I live two blocks away from there.
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paladin wrote on 2010-09-30 23:30
Quote from Phunkie;171962:
Okay, no.
Some people just aren't as strong.
Have you ever been bullied? It can be a kid's worst nightmare in 8th or 9th grade.
Doesn't even have to be about your sexuality. What if you I picked on you for having an ugly face? And I constantly, constantly made fun of you. And all my friends laughed at you every time you passed by, screaming, "LOOK AT THAT UGLY IDIOT."
You would feel bad. You'd feel horrible actually. You would start thinking you are in fact ugly and you wouldn't wanna go to school anymore.
My bullying could drive you to want to kill yourself.
Can I blame you for being a "coward"? I could, but I'd look like an idiot for not knowing the situation or the person myself.
Sometimes people just can't take it. You obviously haven't been in a situation like this, so stop calling these people "cowards."
I live thou 6 to 7th builled
Trust me its hell
I cant very well blame this kid if he was in 8th
Thats why i treat no one with trust untill they prove it
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Moppy wrote on 2010-09-30 23:33
Quote from abc33kr;171955:
Cough coward cough.
You call suicide cowardly? Most suicide cases come from depression. Depression is this horrible feeling inside you that you can never escape. The equivalent for a non-depressed person would be running from a giant monster that you know you can't outrun. If you know things aren't going to be good, are you saying you'd still keep running or would you just stop the pain and get killed. Though you could say that anything is possible and things can get better, but anyone depressed would have given up hope long ago.
Maybe this kid wasn't depressed but I'm just saying, suicide isn't cowardly.
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Justified wrote on 2010-09-30 23:35
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Cliche saying, but still. If you don't lose more from failing compared to not trying at all, then I agree that it's cowardly to not try.
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Phunkie wrote on 2010-09-30 23:42
Quote from Justified;171977:
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Cliche saying, but still. If you don't lose more from failing compared to not trying at all, then I agree that it's cowardly to not try.
Yes, by all means, cowardice means running away from things instead of facing them.
But calling someone a coward in situations like these is just kinda disrespectful.
I mean, the kid is dead. And he's dead because he was bullied and felt desperate.
Why blame him and not the ones who triggered this desperation within him?
It's like saying,
it's your fault you got raped. That's not always the case.
And it takes a lot of guts to kill yourself. I bet he thought about it so many times before actually going through it.
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abc33kr wrote on 2010-09-30 23:58
@Phunkie
lol I was bullied 5th to 6th grade and I came home everyday crying.
But I didn't decide to commit suicide, there were too many good things in life to give up. Those poor bastards didn't worth enough to ruin those for me. Instead I decided to face the problem. First, I intimidated them. Next, I talked to my homeroom teacher for advice. Finally, I went to the principal's office to discuss about the problem. The bullies obviously got in trouble and they even said sorry to me. By summer, we even became friends and played ps2 together.
Now you could say that this works because I'm straight. But it is not like homosexuals are not protected by the law.
You know, if I lived in a generation earlier, the principal would have just laughed at me saying that I'm asian. But would I have just gave up? no, I would have saved my anger and frustration till I would become an adult and lead an anti-racism movement or something. I could have been the asian MLK. xP (just showing potentials)
Ya so you can't really say that I haven't been through as much as this pusay here.
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Phunkie wrote on 2010-10-01 00:00
Yes, you went through all that and you even know what it is to be bullied.
Yet you still call him a pussy.
gg
Sorry people aren't as strong as you. It's a fact. Not everyone is as optimistic or motivated as you and I, perhaps.
However, that doesn't give us any right to condemn those who may not be as fortunate as us.