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Warning !!!! Parents, Suicide do to Bullying is not just for Teen Agers Any More. Do not think that it can’t happen to your child. Learn to recognize the signs and risks of suicide in children.

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Page 1: Children committing suicide over bullying at younger and younger Ages

Warning !!!! Parents, Suicide do to

Bullying is not just for Teen Agers Any More. Do not

think that it can’t happen to your child.

Learn to recognize the signs and risks of suicide in

children.

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Don’t Just Dismiss their feelings by Don’t Just Dismiss their feelings by saying saying ““Their Just Jealous”, Their Just Jealous”, ““Toughen up!”Toughen up!” “ “Every kid gets bully”,Every kid gets bully”, “ “What they say can’t hurt You”What they say can’t hurt You”

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Stop the bullyingStop the bullying

Support your child being bulliedSupport your child being bullied

Name the bullying behaviorName the bullying behavior

Empower children witnessing the Empower children witnessing the bullyingbullying

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By his 11th birthday, Mitchell Wilson By his 11th birthday, Mitchell Wilson had already endured a lifetime of had already endured a lifetime of Pain.Pain.

MitchellMitchell was jumped by a 12-was jumped by a 12-year-old boy he knew from his year-old boy he knew from his elementary school in Pickering.elementary school in Pickering.

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Tori Blair, a Girl 8 year Old Girl hanged herself 'after being Tori Blair, a Girl 8 year Old Girl hanged herself 'after being bullied right up to the day of her deathbullied right up to the day of her death

An eight-year-old girl hung herself

after being bullied till found dead in

the woods near her home had hanged herself after being

bullied.

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Let’s learn to educate our children

about the harmful effects of bullying

their peers.

It’s heart-breaking to think that such a It’s heart-breaking to think that such a young child could see no other young child could see no other

alternative.alternative.

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Un Fashionable

10-year-old girl who hanged herself after repeatedly10-year-old girl who hanged herself after repeatedly being bullied at school.being bullied at school.

Jasmine was picked on at Elementary School, other children teased her about her clothes or her shoes. “She left the school for a while and dreaded having to return about a month ago,” her mother said.

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Un Fashionable

10-year-old girl who hanged herself after repeatedly

being bullied at school.

Jasmine was picked on at Elementary School, other children teased her about her clothes or her shoes. “She left the school for a while and dreaded having to return about a month ago,” her mother said.

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Jasmine was bullied, and was picked on Jasmine was bullied, and was picked on because she didn't wear the latest fashions.because she didn't wear the latest fashions.

 "She may not have the best in

the world, but she had what she

wanted and what she needed.  She did not go liking

for nothing."

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11-year-old boy who committed suicide after being relentlessly bullied at school with homophobic taunts.

Jaheem Herrera, too, Jaheem Herrera, too, hanged himself after being hanged himself after being

bullied at school. bullied at school. Seemingly, the taunts were Seemingly, the taunts were also homophobic in naturealso homophobic in nature.

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Rebecca Ann Sedwick was discovered dead at an

abandoned cement factory Her family fear she took her own life after year and a half of constant bullying which Cause her to change her

Online name to “The Dead Girl”

Girl, 12, jumped to death after 18 months of Girl, 12, jumped to death after 18 months of cyber-bullyingcyber-bullying

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Rebecca Ann Sedwick was discovered dead at an

abandoned cement factory Her family fear she took her own life after year and a half of

constant bullying which Cause her to change her Online name

to “The Dead Girl”

Girl, 12, jumped to death after 18 months of Girl, 12, jumped to death after 18 months of cyber-bullyingcyber-bullying

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Joshua Maddox, who suffered from Joshua Maddox, who suffered from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), (ADHD),

He had suffered months of cruel taunts from classmates because the condition had left him struggling with his schoolwork.15, killed himself after months of cruel taunts from bullies over his learning difficulties

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Joshua Maddox was found by his sister Joshua Maddox was found by his sister hanging from the closet rod.hanging from the closet rod.

He had suffered months of cruel taunts from classmates because the condition had left him struggling with his schoolwork.15, killed himself after months of cruel taunts from bullies over his learning difficulties

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Erin warned anonymous bullies on her page that she would take her own life, but the harassment

about things like her weight and how she looked didn’t stop. Her last post was in response to one of

her bullies:

13 year Old Irish girl, Erin Gallagher took her own life after being bullied

“U prob think it was funny when [I] fuckin put a rope round my neck cause of yous, yous are that sad!’.”

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He committed suicide at the age of 14 after months of constant bullying.

mother mother discovered him in discovered him in his bedroom the his bedroom the morning after he morning after he

had taken an had taken an overdose.overdose.

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'we couldn't wait for him to grow up - we thought we could pat ourselves on the back, we did good' - and the discovery of his lifeless body in March that brought all those hopes and joy to an abrupt, hideous end.

Shy is haunted by the memory of her son - Shy is haunted by the memory of her son -