Student who fatally stabbed classmate was relentlessly mocked with homophobic slurs, friends say

[BeyondGeography]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/bronx-teen-killed-classmate-mocked-homophobic-slurs-article-1.3527507

A Bronx teen accused of fatally stabbing a bullying classmate was tormented with homophobic and racist slurs until he finally exploded, according to family friends.

The abuse heaped upon Abel Cedeno, 18, was previously reported to officials at his Bronx high school without any response, said friend Savannah Hornbeck before the accused killer’s Thursday arraignment.

“The kids were calling him a f----t, calling him a s--c,” said Hornbeck, 34. “After it had been reported numerous times and there was no reaction from the school, Abel felt (there was) no other way out.”

Cedeno was placed under suicide watch and held without bail in the murder of 15-year-old Matthew McCree and the stabbing of a second youth as horrified students in their history class watched helplessly.

...A second Cedeno family friend, Iris Couvertier, said she spoke with Abel inside the 48th Precinct after his arrest.

“Those two kids in the class, they hit him,” she said. “He said that they hit him in the face. He said it’s because he’s gay or bisexual.”

Hornbeck said Cedeno often returned home in tears after enduring the bullying of McCree and the second stabbing victim Ariane Laboy, 16.

City Education Department officials, citing student privacy laws, would not say whether Cedeno told school staffers about the bullying...

Three lives ruined. Not sounding like the school did a damn thing to manage this situation.

[Initech]

1. *Yoda voice* Begun, the Hate Wars have.