By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
April 14, 2009
Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover was 11-- hardly old
enough to know his sexuality and yet distraught
enough to hang himself last week after school bullies
repeatedly called him "gay."
The Springfield, Mass., football player and Boy Scout
was ruthlessly teased, despite his mother's pleas to
the New Leadership Charter School to address the
problem.
Sirdeaner L. Walker, 43, found Carl hanging by an
extension cord on the second floor of the family's
home April 6, just minutes before she was going to a
meeting to confront school authorities again.
"I am brokenhearted," she told ABCNews.com. "We
worry about the economy and about Iraq, but we need
to be worried about our schools."
