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Eleven-Year-Old Boy Endured Anti-Gay Bullying And Commits Suicide

04/15/200902/04/2013 The kNOw Youth Media

On April 6, 2009, just days before his twelfth birthday, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, a sixth grade student at New Leadership Charter School in Springfield, MA, was found hung from an extension cord that he used to wrap around his neck.

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