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An Alabama mother says bullying led her 9-year-old daughter to commit suicide, according to CBS News reports.
Mother Jasmine Adams said her daughter, McKenzie Adams, told teachers at U.S. Jones Elementary School in Demopolis and her assistant principal multiple times that she was being bullied. She feels the school system let her family down.
“She told me that this one particular child was writing her nasty notes in class,” said Jasmine. “It was just things you wouldn’t think a 9-year-old should know. And my baby, to tell me some of the things they had said to her, I was like, ‘Where are they learning this from?”
“Our trust was in them that they would do the right thing,” said Jasmine Adams. “And it just feels like to me it wasn’t.”
Adams said she transferred her daughter to the school from another school due to bullying. She said the issue started again at the new school.
Adams said race was a factor in the bullying. A white family friend drove the African-American fourth-grader to school every day.
Her aunt, Eddwina Harris, said the group of students taunted McKenzie by telling her to commit suicide.
“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
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