When Saturday, January 19, Tami Charles gave before leaving the 10-year seven the chores, she didn’t know she was talking to the son one last time.
Back home after an hour, the woman saw that the seven have completed 2 assignments: finish your paper and carefully hung the clothes in the closet. But clean socks he had to put in pairs, and were scattered on a new bed. When she found her son, he was already dead.
«Why did you do that?!» — Tami rushed to his lifeless body. But she already knew the answer: seven did not survive abuse in Kerrick Elementary School Louisville (ky).
Seven Bridges was bullied to death over an ostomy appliance. And the school district is going to do what they always do when children of color are killed, claim their policies and procedures were followed and so they have no culpability pic.twitter.com/AiXxKXUn9B
Matthew Cortland, esq. (@mattbc) January 23, 2019
Tami Charles, a businesswoman, comedian and radio host known in Louisville person. Generosity and social events, many called her «Auntie of Louisville.» The woman often shares his thoughts and funny memes in social networks. A few months ago she told about the abuse of her son to Facebook after which the boy showed on the local news.
Seven bridges was born with a bowel disease and suffered in connection with many operations. However, despite the treatment, he sometimes uncontrolled leakage. In school the boy always kept spare clothes in case of an emergency. Because coming from a child the smell of the other children teased him.
Somehow seven walked into the bedroom of the parents, inconsolable crying, a classmate wrote about him mocking the song. «He was so traumatized that he could not utter a single word,» recalls Tami Charles, repeatedly tried to attract the attention of school leaders for the persecution of her son.
Seven got from his peers not just because of his congenital problems. The boy heard in his address racist insults, and once he nearly strangled on the school bus.
Meanwhile, according to Tami Charles, the administration was more concerned about «protecting yourself and school» than how it can help your student, and some teachers, after complaints from mothers discriminate against Seven.
«We enrolled him in the Academy of Dubois, says the mother. — We wanted to talk to him about new friends and new start. He had to endure till the end of the year.»
Seven was just an innocent child, loved to dance and adored superheroes. But after learning that the cult comic book author Stan Lee had died, he cried.
On Tuesday, January 22, head of the school of Jefferson County (JCPS ) Marty Pollio said he’s devastated by the death of sevena, and promised to conduct an investigation in Kerrick Elementary School to determine how school officials respond to bullying students.
According to physicians at children’s hospital Norton among peers Sevena thoughts of suicide are usually related to relationships. «Once they have the thought: «I can’t be here», and they impulsively take a radical solution,» says psychologist Children Norton Medical Associates Katie Hopkins.
Seven bridges is the youngest student in JCPS who committed suicide in this academic year.
