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Children bullied, accused of being gay, commit suicide

Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover

SPRINGFIELD - Two days after the worst day of her life, when she found her 11-year-old son had committed suicide by hanging himself, Sirdeaner L. Walker said on Wednesday she wants the bullying to stop.
She found Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover hanging by an extension cord on the second floor of their 124 Northampton Ave. home Monday night after he had endured another day of taunting at New Leadership Charter School, where he was a sixth-grader, she said.
"I just want to help some other child. I know there are other kids being picked on, and it's day in and day out," said Walker, 43.MORE

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OMG, poor baby. What a smile.

People who say bullying is just kids being kids are full of it. Bullying made my life hell on earth and lead me to self-destructive behavior that didn't include suicide, so in that sense I was lucky.