Parents of Teen Suicide Victim Speak Out on Bullying

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The parents of a high school freshman in Amherst, N.Y. who killed himself told CNN that their son had endured pervasive antigay bullying beginning in fifth grade, both at school and particularly online.

Jamey Rodemeyer, 14, committed suicide Monday in the Buffalo, N.Y. suburb. “He had the biggest heart in that little body,” Rodemeyer’s mother, Tracey, told CNN's Anderson Cooper Wednesday. “He was either loved so sincerely or he was bullied. There wasn’t much in between.”

Much of the bullying Jamey faced, Tracey Rodemeyer said, occurred not in school but via Facebook and other social media sites. "Because people can access each other in numbers so readily — it’s still accessible for people to do their bullying.”

“We need to get a better a system in our school district, in our school systems, to get rid of these bullies. Because it’s a rampant problem,” Rodemeyer’s father, Tim, said. (Watch the CNN video below.)


http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/09/22/Parents_of_Teen_Suicide_Victim_Speak_Out_on_Bullying/