R.I.P: Bullied 11-Year-Old Canadian Boy Commits Suicide!

"The death of an 11-year-old boy with muscular
dystrophy months after his assault by a bully has
shined a spotlight on bullying in Canada's
schools.

Muscular dystrophy left Mitchell Wilson struggling
to do simple things like walking around the block
or climbing stairs. He also had to use a walker at
school. Doctors had urged him to exercise
regularly to stave off the disease's effects,
something that was growing increasingly difficult
for the boy.

Wilson was mugged last November by a 12-year-old
boy from his school. The assailant was after the
iPhone Wilson borrowed from his dad. The bully was
arrested and removed from the Pickering, Ont.
school they both attended.

"He was never the same," said Craig Wilson to the
Toronto Star, the boy's father and the one who
found the boy's body in his room with a plastic
bag tied around his head earlier this month.

Things didn't get any better for the young
Mitchell as the court date loomed. And the
bullying didn't stop.

"Subsequent to the beating that he took, he just
lost that spark you see in a kid's eye. He had
huge anxiety attacks about going outside and going
for his walks and going to school by himself,"
Craig Wilson told CTV's Canada AM.

“At the cottage in July, he said, ‘If I have to go
back to that school, I’ll kill myself,’” the boy's
grandmother, Pam Wilson, told the National Post."
- HuggintonPost