Ugh. I have been putting this one out
just because it made me miserable to know. This is about a kid named
Gabriel Taye that was bullied in school. Unlike a lot of other
stories where a kid is bullied and brings a gun from home to school
and kills folks this 8 year old ended up hanging himself at home. Of
course none of the people that should take any form of
responsibility for this has or will. A couple of days before he
killed himself he was attacked by another student at school. There is
video of this if you wanted to know. This other kid, that should be
in some kinda juvenile center if you ask me, shoved Taye into a wall
knocking him unconscious.
While he was laying on the ground for
about five minutes other kids came by and nudged him, laughed, and
even a school official who was right by him didn't notice him on the
ground. The school didn't tell his mother, Cornelia Reynolds, that he
was attacked of knocked unconscious at school. They just said that he
fainted. The case is reopening because after he had killed himself it
was treated as very open and shut. The county coroner, Lakshmi
Sammarco, requested that the police open this case back up and
implied that it could be a homicide. “There's enough information
here that we would like to reopen the case to look at whether we need
to amend the death certificate. It was very hard for me to believe
that an 8-year-old would even know what it means to commit suicide
and so I asked Cincinnati police to treat this as a homicide until
proven otherwise and investigate it fully.”
A nurse at the school says that Taye
was checked an said that he was in “normal” condition. It is also
being reported that the nurse told Taye's mother to take him to a
hospital immediately. This is where the stories begin to differ.
Reynolds' lawyer stated “On the eve of Mother’s Day, it is
unfortunate that CPS chose to blame Gabe's mother for not taking him
to the hospital after he was injured at school. No one from CPS told
Gabe's mother that she needed to take him to the hospital. The
nurse's notes verify this. In fact, if his mother had been told that
(he) was assaulted and was unconscious for over seven minutes on the
bathroom floor, she would have taken him to the hospital and not let
him return to Carson. It is helpful that CPS did not deny that Carson
officials withheld this vital information from Gabe's mother.”
After his mother picked him up from
school Taye was sick and vomited twice during the night. Sounds like a concussion to me. I've had a few. His mother
then took him to the hospital and he was released the next morning
and the hospital said he had stomach flu. He stayed home that day,
went to school the next, and killed himself the next by hanging
himself with a necktie after coming home from school. His mother
stated “I guess he didn’t know how to tell me stuff was
happening. Him going to the nurse's station or him not wanting to go
to school, that was his way of trying to communicate with me. That
was his way. He probably didn't want to say, 'Ma, somebody's bullying
or picking on me,' you know? He just didn't know how to tell me.”
The family lawyer said “If the school
had told mom that 'your son was assaulted,' 'your son had lost
consciousness for seven minutes,' she would have immediately taken
him to the hospital and had him examined. She's devastated that her
son's second-to-last day was so painful for him and that she didn't
know and that she couldn't protect him.” By the way, suicide is the
second leading cause of death of people between 10 and 24 in the
nation. “It is my obligation to make sure that this will never
happen again” Reynolds said. “No, this will not go away. People
need to know the truth and help fix this epidemic in our society by
spreading awareness and speaking up.”
I have to say, it is hard to speak up
to your parents about being bullied. When I was bullied as a child I
didn't tell anyone and ended up just fighting people or hitting them
once and they stopped. Most times its some kid that gets his ass
kicked at home and decides to take it out on kids at school.
Sometimes a kid is just an asshole garbage human being but we don't
want to admit that. There are some shitty kids in the world and we
need to stop denying it. Being bullied sucks. I know that should go
without saying but that shit can stick with you for the rest of your
life. There are times when I think of a kid named Kerry that used to
fuck with me and my cousins until one day he got in my face and I
swung and nailed him in the jaw. Of course I ran to a teacher, turned
on the water works, and he got in trouble. Never messed with us
again. Know why? His parents were called and he probably got his ass
beat when he got home. Fight fire with fire as the great poets
Metallica once said.
If you have a kid and they are being
bullied chances are they will never tell you. Why? Because they don't
trust you. I should probably put that another way. They don't trust
that you will be able to do something helpful. Back in the 80's
parents would come to schools and physically threaten other kids and
it was fine. Why? Because teachers could hit kids back then. Maybe it
was just in the LAUSD. Either way, everybody was getting hit by
someone and you knew which kids weren't because they were assholes
that did things that would get you hit so you knew not to do them. I
still see this behavior every time I see a kid in the wild.
Kids think that you, a parent, are
going to come to the school and embarrass them. Now they are not only
being bullied, they are being made fun of. So they keep it inside and
let it build until they snap on someone that did something not even
worth getting that upset about. Or, like Gabriel, they take it out on
themselves. Parents will wonder what they could've done and why they
didn't see the signs. And it sucks for them. It really does. Schools
can't stop bullying because bullying never really ends. It doesn't
help that non-bully events happen and get called bullying. The world
is a huge tale of The Boy Who Cried Wolf so when shit gets really
real people don't act on it.
The only actual way to stop shit like
this from happening is to raise non-shitty people. So much of what we
end up turning into as adults come from how we were treated as
children. More than we'd like to admit. Parents also need to
recognize the way they treat and talk to their children. Kids aren't
servants or robots. They won't be kids forever. Your bad parenting
will crank out a bad adult. I see so many parents around my age with
kids and somehow this age group is the shittiest group of parents in
a long ass time. They don't want to let go of their youth and still
want to party like their kids are and even dress like them. Me? No
need to be more adult than I am. I have no kids and am not
responsible for anyone but me and my plants. I got some Macho Man
Jordan's arriving tomorrow and plans to hunt for new doughnut spots.
But if I did have a kid I would know all of their friends, their
friends parents (whether I wanted to or not), and how they are doing
in school and not waiting till I got a report card. In closing, don't
have kids you can't raise to not be assholes that cause children to
want to die.
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