The Advocate interviews mom of 11-year-old who committed suicide over gay taunts
by: Pam Spaulding
Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 10:30:00 AM EDT

http://pamshouseblend.com/diary/10440/the-advocate-interviews-mom-of-11yearold-who-committed-suicide-over-gay-taunts

Eleven-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover did not have to die. He wrapped an extension cord around his neck and hanged himself, leaving this earth because of months of anti-gay taunts by his classmates at New Leadership Charter School in Springfield, MA. The Advocate's William McGuinness interviewed his mother, Sirdeaner Walker. This story is almost too painful for words.

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School Yard Bully
A community reacts to the death of 11-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, who committed suicide after months of antigay taunts...and little action from his school.

By William McGuinness
An Advocate.com exclusive posted April 13, 2009
School Yard Bully

http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid78827.asp

Sirdeaner Walker, who has survived domestic violence, homelessness, and breast cancer, knew death could come suddenly -- but she could not have predicted it would find her 11-year-old son first.