A ten-year-old Illinois girl committed suicide on Friday, after allegedly enduring oppresive torment from bullies at her school.
Ashlynn Conner, a fifth-grade honours student from Georgetown, Illinois, was found hanging in a closet in her home, after complaining to her mother for several days about insults and hateful comments directed at her by her peers in her class.
Her mother, Stacy, told ABC reporters that her daughter had been called "fat", "ugly" and even "slut" by classmates, which made Ashlynn come to dread school in the weeks before her death.
The school, Georgetown Ridge Farm Elementary, says they have a strict anti-bullying policy in place to prevent incidents like this. However, as someone who was bullied enough in elementary school at age eight to drop out and homeschool for four years, I know from past experience that bullies don't care about school policies. If they do not like someone at the school, they will strive to make his or her life miserable, and to heck with the consequences- I'd like to think that they don't expect something like this to happen though.
Rest in peace, Ashlynn.
Link to ABC News' story: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/11/was-a-10-year-old-honor-student-bullied-to-death/
No one sits with him, he doesn't fit in
But you feel like you do when you make fun of him
'Cos you want to belong, do you go along
'Cos his pain is the price paid for you to belong?
It's not like you hate him or want him to die
But maybe he goes home and thinks suicide
Or he comes back to school with a gun at his side
Any kindness from you might've saved his life...
-"Hero"- Superchick
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