2. Mitchell Wilson
An 11-year-old boy with muscular dystrophy committed suicide by
suffocating himself months after being bullied and robbed of an iPhone.
Mitchell Wilson, of Pickering in Ontario, Canada, was out walking when
his face and teeth were smashed into the pavement by a boy from his
school.
A 12-year-old was arrested and removed from the school, but
Mitchell‟s father said his disabled boy was „never the same‟ after the
attack.
3. Jamey Rodemeyer
Jamey Rodemeyer, N.Y., boy, 14, killed himself this
weekend after posting an online farewell.
A student at Williamsville North High School, Jamey
had been tormented for the past 12 months by
cyberbullies who made disparaging comments with gay
references on his Formspring account, a website that
allows anonymous posts.
"JAMIE IS STUPID, GAY, FAT ANND [sic]
UGLY. HE MUST DIE!" one post said, according to
local reports.
4. Billy (William) Lucas
Billy (William) Lucas, who was a student at Greensburg Community High
School, was found hanging in a family owned barn.
While reports say that Lucas made no reference to bullying in his suicide
note, it has been suggested that he was the victim of a sustained campaign
of bullying at the hands of some of his classmates.
In particular, it is reported that he was subjected to taunts about his
perceived sexual orientation and was called “fag” among other jibes. It
should be noted that Billy never self-identified as being gay.
5. Ashlynn Conner
The family of a 10-year-old girl in east central Illinois
says intense bullying caused the fifth-grader to kill
herself.
Ashlynn Conner told her mom she was being bullied at
Ridge Farm Elementary School, where she was an honor
student. She was also being bullied in the neighborhood.
But the girl‟s mother says she never expected her
daughter would take her own life.
6. Marjorie Raymond
15-year-old Marjorie Raymond committed suicide after enduring years of abuse at her
school in the Gaspe Peninsula.
Her mother, Chantal Larose, told CTV Montreal that she only recently found out that
Marjorie had been dealing with taunts and bullying since her first day at Gabrielle Le
Courtois high school.
Larose said Marjorie was very good at hiding her feelings, but had recently talked to her
about the abuse and that she hated school.
Larose said she had promised to pull her daughter out of school at the age of 16 and to
send her to a technical adult institution. Marjorie killed herself.
In a note, Marjorie blamed her suicide on "the jealous people in this world who only want
to destroy happiness."
7. Bullying percentages
- It is estimated that 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or
intimidation by other students. Source: National Education Association.
- American schools harbor approximately 2.1 million bullies and 2.7 million of their victims.
Dan Olweus, National School Safety Center.
- 1 in 7 Students in Grades K-12 is either a bully or a victim of bullying.
- 56% of students have personally witnessed some type of bullying at school.
- 15% of all school absenteeism is directly related to fears of being bullied at school.
- 71% of students report incidents of bullying as a problem at their school.
- 1 out of 20 students has seen a student with a gun at school.
- 282,000 students are physically attacked in secondary schools each month.
- Those in the lower grades reported being in twice as many fights as those in the higher
grades. However, there is a lower rate of serious violent crimes in the elementary level than in
the middle or high schools.
