Bully Victim’s Mom Wants Answers About Son’s Suicide

April 27th, 2009

 

As Masika Bermudez prepares to take her son to the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he is to be buried, she is looking for answers to exactly what made her 11-year-old son hang himself in their Atlanta-area apartment last week. Among those questions, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, is whether incessant bullying by his classmates triggered Jaheem Herrera’s desperate response. Did a boy’s charge that Jaheem was gay push him over the edge? Read more.

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Donna Said on

He was mad, because the school ran out of burritos….



P.J. Said on

I must that admit that I have an intense hatred of bullies. I don’t care what the limp-wristed liberals, advocates of social programs and their cowardly counterparts belive what is right. The solution to the cancer of bullyism is to get tough. Beat those thugs. Kick them out of school. Those who remain in school until tey are 16 should be encouraged to drop out, Our schools and our young need to be kept safe.



Dee Black Said on

Donna you are a silly ass childlish woman, someone have loss there child i don’t see any humor in what you said!!!!



Ericka Said on

I would like to extend my sympathy to this mother who has lost her child may god be with you and your family. For Donna that comment was very rude and stupid of you, what if this was your child, next time think before you comment.



Michelle Said on

Kids can so be crude these days. I pick on in school and it can drive you to suicide and kids don’t understand that. That why the parents need to teach their kids to treat other kids with respect.



RIRI Said on

DONNA, DO YOU REALIZE THAT THIS CHILD HAS ACTUALLY KILLED HIMSELF!!!!!!!? BECUZ FOR YOU TO BE MAKING COMMENTS LIKE THAT SAYS A LOT ABOUT U!!!………I SURE HOPE THAT YOU DON’T HAVE ANY KIDS, AND IF YOU DO, I HOPE YOU THINK MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU SAY, BECAUSE IT COULD HVE EASILY BEEN YOU OR UR CHILD, IF YOU HAVE ANY……WE SHOULDN’T DO AND SAY STUFF LIKE THAT…….& QUITE FRANKLY IME SUPRISED THAT BET DISPLAYED SUCH A COMMENT!..SHAME ON YOU BET!!!!!!!



Esther Said on

So Donna you’re an equal opportunity racist. Please don’t reproduce we got enough racist idiots on earth already.



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Brittani Said on

i am so sad to hear something like this happened, especially to someone as young as he was. he had his whole life ahead of him. my prayers go out to him and his family, and to whoever was bullying him i am gonna say a prayer for you too. and that lady donna should be ashamed of herself, what made her say something liek this. God see everything and thats not right.



Niecey Said on

I feel like in this day and age, bullying has become worst than ever. Coming from someone who has been bullied to being the actual bully…its a lose lose situation where nobody wins at all. What needs to be done is for there to be harsher punishment for those who do bully. It is one thing to call people names in the name of fun but when it gets outta control (when the other person no longer takes it to be funny anymore) then the adults need to step in to redirect the situation before it gets outta hand.



Tangela Said on

P.J a child was lost but I find you to be ignoranat and lost to call a child a thug. The child who called him out his name was just as young as the boy who killed himself and I would barely call an 11 year old a thug. Yes the child was misguided and needs to be taught better but the child was not a thug he was not the one who did the killing. We as the adults need to teach kids that words do hurt and when the kids see that adults are hutring each other it triggers down to our youth.



Tom J. Said on

A group assault upon one person has become ‘heroic’ in our time. It is definitely an act of cowardice – the group does not care about what it destroys. Later, of course, some group members may be remorseful but let us remember that we have brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, cousins, and parents.
How do we feel when a loved one is bullied or assaulted by the group?



NEVAEH Said on

THIS A REAL SAD STORY AND THE FACT THAT THIS IS BECOMING AN REOCCURRING EVENT IS EVEN SADDER. WE AS PARENTS HAVE TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN TO RESPECT THEMSELVES AND OTHERS. MOST TIMES WHEN A CHILD FEELS THE NEED TO BE A BULLY IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE LACKING SOMETHING IN THE AT HOME ENVIROMENT OR THEY MAY BE FEELING BULLIED AROUND OTHER INDIVIUALS SO THIS IS THE TYPE OF BEHAVIOR THAT IS DISPLAYED WHEN THEY ARE NO LONGER THE TARGET, BUT HAVE A TARGET THEMSELVES, OR THEY COULD JUST BE DISPLAYING THE BEHAVIOR THAT IS SEEN IN THE HOME. AND FOR ANOTHER CHILD TO FEEL THAT DEATH IS THE ONLY ESCAPE LETS YOU KNOW THAT THIS WAS NOT JUST INNOCENT TEASING, THIS CHILD WAS BEING ABUSED BY HIS PEERS. I HOPE THIS MOM STICKS WITH HER INVESTIGATION TO THE END, BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW LONG THIS WENT ON AND WHAT THE SCHOOL DID A MEASURES TO ELIMINATE THE PROBLEM. AND FOR THE CHILDREN DOING THE TEASING I THINK THEY NEED TO UNDERGO SERIOUS COUNSELING BECAUSE THEY MADE SOMEONE TAKE THEIR OWN LIFE.. IF THE KIDS INVOLVED WERE OLDER I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT CRIMINAL CHARGES BE FILED…



kareema Said on

SOME kids are cruel.they like picking on other children but dnt realiz that they are hurting their feelings and thats not right.the little boy didnt deserve to die like that.



Mephistopheles Said on

The bullies family owe a karmic debt to the family of the victim.
Family should get a voodoo doll and a spell (could be found at any new age book store) and cast a spell the bullies. Could even cast a spell for the souls of the perpetrators, for wealth in return for killing their son. The sky is the limit.



mightey whitey Said on

Tom J. – “A group assault upon one person has become ‘heroic’ in our time.”

Those Jena Six thugs the black community elavated to hero status got a standing ovation at the BET Awards. That’s how much you people glorify gang violence.



Esther Said on

mighty whitey still harping on the Jena Six thugs and the black community huh, still think the whites in that community did nothing to contribute to the overall outcome. grow up loser and get over it nobody is buying your bs on here. white people created gang violence and have never stopped. you people are the biggest hypocrites in the world and the scum of the earth. Just because you the majority don’t make you right. did you ever research white privilege loser? of course not the truth is your kryptonite!



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