Reply #5: My husband ended up being involved in a tragic case [View All]

[murielm99]

last summer. He had to serve on a coroner's jury. There were three cases. The first two were routine.

The third case involved the suicide of a teenage boy. His family testified to the bullying and teasing he had endured at the hands of the jocks during the last school year. The boys who were abusing him repeatedly teased him about being gay. It was more likely that he was socially awkward.

His parents went to work, and his sister, home from college, went to check on him because he was too quiet. She found his body.

His family had known about the bullying. They had even gone to school to talk with the principal about it. Everyone had hoped that the boy would get a break over the summer. Instead, his tormentors were emailing and text messaging ugly things to him.

The police have all the emails and text messages now. There will be charges against the bullies. One life is over and several more are damaged because no one could find a way to control this type of behavior.