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Title: Killed for expressing themselves (commentary)
Post by: Natasha on March 01, 2008, 06:45:06 PM
Killed for expressing themselves

Link (http://media.www.bgnews.com/media/storage/paper883/news/2008/02/25/Forum/Killed.For.Expressing.Themselves-3231044.shtml)
03/01/2008

"In the wee hours of Feb. 4, U.K. mother of five Kelly McWilliams discovered her 10-year-old son Cameron had committed suicide by hanging himself with a black leather belt. Cameron had told his mother he wanted to be a girl and wanted to start wearing make-up, a request his mother denied. Cameron had been a victim of bullying at school and had few friends."