A 10-year-old boy in Indiana took his own life on May 5 after enduring relentless bullying at school, despite his parents reporting the issue numerous times.
“I held him in my arms,” the father of Sammy Teusch, a fourth-grader at Greenfield Intermediate School, Indiana, told WTHR. “Any time I close my eyes, it’s all I can see.”
Sammy’s mother attributes his suicide to persistent bullying, especially following an undisclosed incident in a school bathroom last week. The trauma left him too frightened to attend school in the days leading up to his death.
RIP Sammy🙏
10-year-old boy takes his own life after getting constantly bullied at school for his glasses and teeth.
Sammy Teusch of Greenfield, Indiana was bullied up until the night he took his own life according to his family.
— AJ Huber (@Huberton) May 15, 2024
According to his father, Sammy endured prolonged bullying. It began with other children mocking him for wearing glasses, and later they targeted his teeth.
The bullying escalated to physical violence where they would “beat him up on the school bus, and the kids broke his glasses and everything,” the father added. rewrite this sentences in a different way
“He was my little boy. He was my baby. He was the youngest one,” the mother told WTHR.
The harassment did not stop even after the family claims that they had alerted school authorities about the bullying situation on at least 20 occasions over the past year.
“I called the school,” Sammy Teusch’s father recalled, “And I’m like, ‘What are you doing about this? It keeps getting worse, and worse, and worse’.”
As stated by the school district superintendent, there were no reports of bullying submitted by either the parents or the boy. But the family of the boy insisted that they had made their fears about the bullying clear to the school, claiming, “they knew this was going on.”
Sammy’s grandmother was angry at the district’s claims of having a zero-tolerance policy on bullying, claiming that “their zero tolerance means that they don’t have responsibility for it”.
“People trust their kids at school, but now that trust is breaking down,” she told 21alivenews.
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