Bullied Young Indiana Teen Takes His Own Life

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Bullied Young Indiana Teen Takes His Own Life
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Betty Greene Salwak
September 15, 2010 8:30 AM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/09/bullied_young_indiana_teen_takes_his_own_life.php


In a heartbreaking irony of circumstance, 15-year-old Billy Lucas killed himself during National Suicide Prevention Week. Billy was the victim of merciless bullying. While he never self-identified as gay, he was cruelly harassed for being different, and many of the taunts accused him of being gay. Last Thursday, a student pulled a chair out from under Billy and told him to go home and kill himself. And Billy did, hanging himself in the family barn.