Child Commits Suicide For Being Gay

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Leia Pierce, mother of the boy Jamel Myles, called the ambulance after finding her unconscious son at her home on East Girard Avenue. The boy was urgently admitted to the Swedish Medical Center where his death was pronounced.

Pierce says that during the summer his son revealed that he was gay and that he wanted to tell his companions because he was proud of his identity.

"He looked so scared when he told me," the mother told Denver's KDVR-9 News station. "She said, 'Mommy, I'm gay.' And I thought I was playing, and I turned back because I was driving and I said, 'Still, I love you.'”

With his mother's support, the boy started classes at Joel Shoemaker Elementary School of Public Education. "He went to school and said he was going to tell people he was gay because they were proud of himself," says the troubled mother.

Denver police are investigating the death as a suicide, and while details of how the boy took his own life have not been released, they say it was not by firearm.

“My son died from the bullying he was subjected to. Please tell your children that we must love everyone, we all need to love each other,”Pierce wrote in a Facebook message where he denounced the alleged bullying his son suffered in that institution.

"Everything they will have said [to my son]," lamented the woman during her interview with KDVR-9. "My oldest daughter says that one of the companions told her to die," she added sadly.

Christine Fleming, the campus principal, issued a message to communicate the news of Jamel Myles' death. “We are extremely sad to report that one of our fourth grade students died yesterday. This is an unexpected loss for our school community.”

School officials left it up to the parents to communicate the child's death to the students and offered psychological support to those who required it.

"My boy died from bullying," the boy's mother lashed in another interview with the Denver Post. "He didn't deserve this. I wanted to make everyone happy even when he was not”