An 8-Year-Old Boy Killed Himself After His School Covered Up The Bullying He Faced, A Lawsuit Says

Terribly sad that a school can't protect an eight-yer old. Not just sad, it's criminal, and the school administrators should be legally punished.

He died at home. If anyone is to blame for not preventing his death, it's the parents.

The school should be shut down permanently. The administration should never work in the field of education again. The parents should be neutered and not be allowed to have any more children. The entire situation is tragic.

R2: Yeah, they was bullied at school but the guilty ones were the parents, yeah sure, great logic

I hope they sue the shit out of that school, as well as the employees, the bullies, and the parents of the bullies.

Schools are useless when it comes to bullying. I thank God that there was no SM around when my bullying took place because my mother took care of that shit herself and would've been arrested after what she did to my bully.

Well I think the school bears at least some of the responsibility because that's where the bullying occurred r2. It can't be that hard to keep thir graders from tormenting each other and really they have a duty to keep kids safe while they're in their care.

A lot of bullying these days occurs after school hours or via social media R7 and really the school can't do much unless they visibly see it happening during school hours or on school property. You're asking the school to be babysitters and parents which they are not.

School, parents, what's the difference? Someone should be held accountable for this child's death. Yes, the parents should have been aware, but the school did cover up the bullying. Are they all proud of themselves now? Disgusting.

Why weren't the students who attacked him expelled?

What a cute boy. He must have been hurting so much. Poor thing.

Oh God, this angers me so much, because it reminds me of when I was bullied as a kid. The parents have a responsibility in this. If you MUST send your child to a violent school, then TEACH THE KID HOW TO DEFEND HIMSELF. They have martial arts and self-defense classes for kids, UTILIZE THEM.

In my case, my Christian parents forbade me from fighting, or even showing anger towards others. They believed in the power of Jesus, and that I was his little vessel to show my classmates that we could all get along peacefully. Luckily, I had a realistic [italic]female[/italic] teacher who convinced me that my parents teachings weren't practical in my situation, and she convinced me to learn how to fight, which I did. Afterwards, the bullies left me alone.

[Quote]Why weren't the students who attacked him expelled?

You mean sent to juvenile hall!

How does a child that young know how to carry off a suicide?

Look hard at the parents. Was their domestic violence that went too far, was a murder staged to look like a suicide?

[quote]How does a child that young know how to carry off a suicide?

[quote]Look hard at the parents. Was their domestic violence that went too far, was a murder staged to look like a suicide?

You're an idiot. Simple and succinct.

R6, what did your mother do? I was bullied myself and it's always a pleasure to hear stories of bullies getting what they deserve, even though to be fair sometimes the bullies themselves have been bullied or are abused at home, but not all.

I had the same question, R15. How does an 8 year-old know how to kill himself?

How did he manage it?

The school covered up not only this incident, but multiple bully attacks to this same kid, brushing it off because all the incidents were not at the hands of the same perpetrator each time.

BULL. SHIT.

Teachers know which kids other students are friends with - finding a connection would not have been rocket science. And here’s a news flash - punishing the bullies is GOOD FOR THE BULLIES.

They obviously learn bullying from somewhere.

Drive it home that bullying is wrong, cowardly and unacceptable and they may begin to realize that if they’re suffering the same from someone in their lives that it should not be tolerated either and there is support for them, too.

R14, this reminds me of a suicide that I found very suspicious. Same thing. The kid was ten, and the kids made fun of him for smelling like shit because he had a colostomy bag. He hanged himself while his mother was out grocery shopping.

The story had lots of red flags to me. The boy had had something like 25 surgeries, his mother made him a poster boy for bullying, she was highly attention-seeking. The mother was classic Munchhausens-by-proxy, IMO. Google “seven bridges suicide” if you’re a cynical and suspicious bastard like me. It’s fishy, and reminded me of the Blanchardes.

He didn't kill himself, his parents or someone else murder him and they're covering it up.

That video is pretty damning though.

that is heartbreaking...that poor little boy.

R6 r16 my kid was bullied years ago in school. Not only did I confront the little fuckers that did it and read them the riot act, I went to the principle and told him if my daughter was tormented by one of the little shits again, I would call our local paper, a lawyer and personally beat him up! OK, this was the early 90s when you could get away with that kind of thing but this was my daughter and I would do anything I could to stop the bullies from making her life miserable.

I would still do it now and accept the consequences to protect my child.

This is such a devastating story.

For all you fuckwits blaming the parents: the school did not reveal what happened in the bathroom - that the kid was attacked and left un- or semi-conscious on the floor to be kicked and ignored by numerous boys passing through.

An 8 yr old killing himself. Jesus fucking christ..

[quote] A lot of bullying these days occurs after school hours or via social media [R7] and really the school can't do much unless they visibly see it happening during school hours or on school property.

This bullying happened during school hours, on school property and there is video to prove it. I am a teacher and I am shocked by the school's actions. I don't think schools should be held liable in every case of bullying, but clearly here they were negligent or engaged in a coverup.

R16, I actually told the story on here a few years back when another poor child killed himself when he was bullied.

My mother did what you were initially supposed to do -called the school- but that only made the situation worse because they barely said anything to do the bully. He beat the shit out of me and I went home with a bloodied shirt (I was 8 years old) and when my mother saw me it was like a bull seeing red. She was furious. She took me to school the next day, took me to my classroom and asked me to point out which one it was and she told the teacher that she wanted to talk to him and the teacher wouldn't dare refuse the request because she knew she'd get what I got done to me. The kid comes over to the doorway and she grabbed him hard and got right into his face and said if he ever put his hands on me again, she'd take him and his family and bury them all alive under our house. She took me to my desk, kissed me goodbye and looked at the teacher and told her that "this happened because you did nothing."

And that bully actually became my friend...because he was that scared of my mother

the principal’s name is Ruthenia Jackson, she’s one step up from bus driver. You just know she’s fat.

Many schoolteachers and administrators will either ignore bullying or laugh along with the bullies. Too many school employees are less interested in education and learning than they are hanging out with the "cool kids ". Most of the teachers or education majors I've met (with a couple of exceptions ) are adolescent brained idiots. I have a theory that the people who had a really hard time in school don't want to ever return, even in a professional capacity. So employees are usually adults who were not bullied too badly in school so they don't have a ton of empathy.

In some countries, like Finland and Japan, schoolteachers are the ones who graduated from the top of their class. In the US , it's usually students who were at the bottom percentile. Not kidding, look it up.

[quote] In some countries, like Finland and Japan, schoolteachers are the ones who graduated from the top of their class.

In Japan the teachers are just as likely to bully the kids, or sleep with them. Corporal punishment and sexual abuse are both pervasive and covered up all the time. The US has problems but so do other countries.

Half the porn out of Japan is "schoolgirl" stuff, so that's no surprise, R29

It's Cincy. Yo soy not surprised.

OP what the fuck is wrong with you? How the hell do you even manage to use a computer let alone post on Datalounge? You are one of the rudest son of a bitches I’ve ever encountered on here in years. There’s already been a thread on this OP. As a matter of fact, you selfish asshole, there have been several threads on this, but ohhhh nooooo “I don’t have to do a search” says Mister Head Up His Ass. Well pull your fucking head out of your ass for once in your life you selfish son-of-a-bitch and have some consideration for others for a change and do a goddamn search first. Is that going to kill you? Is it? Can you just answer that question? Can you? Is it really going to kill you to do a search first? What is wrong with you? Are you that much of an idiot that you can’t use Google? Don’t even try the old “search function doesn’t work” line because every cunt on here knows how to work around that. Do a search before you post a thread next time you fucking asshole. You’ve ruined my day and I hate you.

So, this happened almost three years ago. What happened to those involved?

Here is the complaint.

Gays, I implore you to please get into the school systems and make this right. We need gay people in the schools. Gay people know tolerance and are typically smarter. These fat cow Frau are failing future generations.

If that were grounds for a lawsuit the litigation would never end.

R35 many parents don’t want gays around their kids

I'd rather work retail than have to deal with kids all day long.

First sentence in the complaint in r34:

[quote]On January 26, 2017, eight-year-old Gabriel Taye (“Gabe”) tied his necktie to his bunk bed and hung himself.

Oh, dear!

HANGED

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No matter how terrible they are or act, no one wants to punish the p.o.s. bullies. They want to 'talk to' and 'develop a rapport with' them. Because everyone knows, buddying up to garbage makes the garbage no longer rotten! 🙄

Until they start taking little shits like this kid's bullies in hand with actual consequences that are unpleasant to the child (and the asshole child's parents), there will be more kids like in the OP's story, more unchecked bullying and more violence in schools, in general.

Looking the other way or mandatory chatting with some half assed school counselor does dick to change things.

So many boys seemed to do nothing about a boy lying on the floor. Some seem to nudge him with their feet, to suss out the situation. Others out right kick him. I don't understand how not one boy went into the hall and dragged in a teacher within say 1 minute. I don't understand how not a single boy got down on the floor and looked in his face or took his hand. How are ALL the boys so heartless. It doesn't seem normal, to me.

Someone sent a message to the parents through their kids. Happens all the time in Chicago.

R41 I know! It seems like these parents have raised a generation of sociopaths. Where is the compassion, the empathy for this little boy? Not ONE of these shits stopped to tell a teacher? My head just cannot grasp the fact that not one other kid tried to do something other than look and walk away.

There are the kids that are going to run the country or care for us in the future? Just kill me now!

Sheesh, you people really cannot process basic information. The lawsuit is not alleging that the school should have prevented any bullying; rather, the lawsuit is claiming the school did not inform the mother of the specific incident of bullying in the tape recording (and, to a lesser extent, did not inform other teachers, who would have presumably made different choices in their own behavior toward the boy). Whatever the school's duty to protect a specific student from bullying is probably debatable. But it is for damn certain that a school has a duty to inform a parent that their child was beaten unconscious on school property.

Can someone explain the scene. How come not a single boy looked like he cared ? I guess one of them did go find an adult but they were all just acting like it was a dead mouse on the floor.

R41/R45 has clearly never spent any time around adolescent girls and their virulent streamlined efficacious strain of psychological bullying. Obviously the cat is now out of the bag and the Heathers syndrome is now rife amongst boys and little kids, as well.

R39 you are far more annoying than the most egregious spelling mistake ever committed.

R45 the school is only about a 3 on the Great Schools rating. Most failed the basic standards test. This school has behavior problems that accompany low SES.

Never send your kid to a school lower than a 7 rating.