It's happened again...Bullied Gay Teen Seth Walsh Dies Nine Days After Hanging Himself

[WillParkinson]

CALIFORNIA: Bullied Gay Teen Seth Walsh Dies Nine Days After Hanging Himself

After nine days on life support, 13 year-old Seth Walsh has died. Seth hung himself from a tree in his back yard after enduring years of anti-gay bullying from his classmates.

Tehachapi 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. "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." He said the students told investigators they wish they had put a stop to the bullying and not participated in it. Friends said Seth was picked on for years because he was gay. School administrators said they have an anti-bullying program in place, but schoolmates said staff at Jacobsen Middle School in Tehachapi offered Seth no protection or guidance. A YouTube video by a family member sends a message about Seth: "He was bullied and teased, now in the hospital, this face right here is suffering because of bullying, never say a mean thing again."

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/09/california-bullied-gay-teen-seth-walsh.html

[hatrack]

1. "They had never expected an outcome such as this."

Well, go-leeeeee!

[xchrom]

2. 13. nt

[Sinistrous]

3. I believe there is a connection between the intensification of bullying and

The thuggery of the Tea Party movement.

Pardon my unsubstantiated assertion and post hoc propter hoc fallacy, but both phenomena have the same stench.

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. Hard to quantify. But it feels like *something* is...

... changing for the worse.

Not helped along by the fact that efforts to deal with this at the school level are either nonexistent or anemic.

[Divine Discontent]

5. so sorry they hurt you so badly young Seth...

these things have got to stop... so much of this bullying shit.... shame on anyone who doesn't confront it like most of us do, even if it's hard - just confront it, or call authorities on it, or schools, etc...

[ThomCat]

6. So, after he commits suicide, if they say they never expected

their victim to actually die, that makes it all okay? :wtf:

He was just supposed to continue being their victim, taking all their abuse? That would have have been acceptable just as long as he hadn't committed suicide yet?

And because they say they didn't want him to die, no crime was committed? That's an outrage :grr:

Yes, a crime was committed! Yes, they killed this kid! And yes, they are responsible for it! I'm more than god-damned-sick of straight people out of jail free and clear just because so many straight people don't consider our lives to be worth a damn. :(