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9-year-old Boy Commits Suicide After Coming Out As Gay (photo) by neyoranking(m): 2:10pm On Aug 28, 2018
A young boy took his own life the first week of school, and his mom says bullying is to blame. Nine-year-old Jamel Myles from Colorado committed suicide just days after telling classmates he was gay.

Leia Pierce says bullying was a factor in the death of her son, who started fourth grade at Joe Shoemaker Elementary School on Monday. Over the summer, his mom said he came out to her as gay.

“He looked so scared when he told me,” Pierce told KDVR-TV. “He was like, ‘Mom I’m gay.’ And I thought he was playing, so I looked back because I was driving, and he was all curled up, so scared. And I said, ‘I still love you.’”

Pierce said her son wanted to tell his classmates.

“He went to school and said he was going to tell people he’s gay because he’s proud of himself,” she said.

On Thursday, four days into the school year, Pierce found her son dead in their Denver home.

“Four days is all it took at school,” she said. “I could just imagine what they said to him. My son told my oldest daughter the kids at school told him to kill himself. I’m just sad he didn’t come to me.”

A letter from Denver Public Schools to families sent Friday said it’s providing extra social workers and its crisis team for students.

“I’m so upset that he thought that was his option,” Pierce said.

In the statement, the district said it will continue to offer support to the family. Through the devastation, Pierce wants to spread awareness about the effects of bullying.

“We should have accountability for bullying,” she said. “I think the child should, because the child knows it’s wrong. The child wouldn’t want someone to do it to them.

I think the parent should be held (accountable) because obviously the parents are either teaching them to be like that, or they’re treating them like that.”

She said she hopes no parent ever has to go through this pain because their child is different from everyone else.

The Denver Police Department is investigating the death as a suicide

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Re: 9-year-old Boy Commits Suicide After Coming Out As Gay (photo) by Nobody: 2:21pm On Aug 28, 2018
Being gay is not humanly.
Re: 9-year-old Boy Commits Suicide After Coming Out As Gay (photo) by Nobody: 2:26pm On Aug 28, 2018
A nine year old tells his mom he's gay, go on to tell her he's going to let his school mates know about it... She finds this OK.

Now she wants to put the blame on bullies.


Weird things are happening in this world!

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Re: 9-year-old Boy Commits Suicide After Coming Out As Gay (photo) by tzjaynee: 2:50pm On Aug 28, 2018
9 year old gay, like seriously. I wonder what runs through the minds of this kids.
Re: 9-year-old Boy Commits Suicide After Coming Out As Gay (photo) by FoxyFlow(m): 4:06pm On Aug 28, 2018
tzjaynee:
9 year old gay, like seriously. I wonder what runs through the minds of this kids.

Thinking of drilling an "unlubricated" a-hole in the future.
Re: 9-year-old Boy Commits Suicide After Coming Out As Gay (photo) by sirusX(m): 8:11pm On Aug 28, 2018
FortifiedCity:
Being gay is not humanly.

It exists as a word...so there is no end to it
Even the Bible talks about it

Tomorrow there would be another child with the same mindset of being gay....thus the endless cycle continues

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