A nine-year-old girl has committed suicide after being bullied by her fourth-grade classmates.
McKenzie Adams was found by her grandmother in her Linden, Alabama, home after she hanged herself, the Tuscaloosa News reported. Family members say she had been harassed since the beginning of the school year.
Family members say McKenzie had transferred to U.S. Jones Elementary School in Demopolis, Alabama, because she had been bullied at her school in Linden.
McKenzie’s mother, Jasmine Adams, told CBS 42 that much of the bullying came from her friendship with a white boy and how his family would drive her to school.
“Part of it could have been because she rode to school with a white family,’ she continued. ‘And a lot of it was race, some of the student bullies would say to her ‘why you riding with white people you’re black, you’re ugly. You should just die’. ‘
‘She was being bullied the entire school year, with words such as ‘kill yourself,’ ‘you think you’re white because you ride with that white boy,’ ‘you ugly,’ ‘black b-tch,’ ‘just die’,’ she echoed.
The grieving family felt the school system failed her daughter.
‘I just felt that our trust was in them that they would do the right thing,’ Adams told CBS 42, ‘And it feels like to me it wasn’t it wasn’t done’.
‘We are working fully with the Demopolis and Linden police department. They are doing a joint investigation of these allegations,’ said schools attorney, Alex Braswell in a statement.
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