11-year-old buried today after gay taunts drive him to take his own life
”They were always saying, ‘you’re gay, you must be gay, you act like a girl.”
Sirdeaner Walker, mother of Carl J. Walker-Hoover, an 11-year-old 6th-grader who is reported to have hung himself with an electrical cord after enduring a barrage of bullying. His mother says she contacted his Charter School officials but did not receive an effective response. (WCVB)
| Vigil for Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover |
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