Mitchell Wilson Suicide: Disabled Boy's Death Raises Bullying Concerns

[Hoosier Daddy]

Source: HuffPost Canada

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.

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When even a country like Canada has this fucked-up shit going on, it just makes me think the whole human race is doomed.

[deutsey]

1. It is depressing, but there's some glimmer of hope in how Mitchell's dad

and grandmother have reacted to the bully:

"He’s a lost kid. He hasn’t been loved, hasn’t been cared for. We don’t want to be a lynch squad. We want him to do community work with disabled people. All we are trying to do is help this kid understand that his life is going to be zip if he keeps on the road he is on,” Mitchell's grandmother told the National Post.

Wilson's father hopes that his son's death can save some lives in the long run. "I can’t do anything for my child anymore,” he said to the Toronto Sun. “So let’s hopefully save some other people’s children so they don’t have to go through this mess.”

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Still, this is such a sad story.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. That father is a bigger man than I'll ever be.

[HughBeaumont]

2. This father's way bigger than I'd be about it.

It'd take a unit with tasers to pull me off of the kid who beat and robbed my disabled and helpless 11-year-old son. It wasn't just punches . . he grabbed the kid's head and smashed his teeth into the concrete.

I kept a way close (but stealth) eye on my kid at football games when he was younger, just in case. So far, nothing like I went through, thankfully.

Beating up someone who won't hit back is the ultimate in cowardice.

[Scottybeamer70]

4. Wow............

there are some real sickos walking this planet.