A 14-year-old gay high school freshman from Iowa took his own life after constant bullying over Facebook.
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Kenneth Weishuhn Jr. committed suicide after friends and family say that classmates sent him death threats on his cell phone and made him the subject of a Facebook hate group.
According to KTIV, Kenneth began to be teased and bullied by classmates at his South O’Brien High School after he came out earlier this year.
Kenneth’s sister, Kayla Weishuhn, said:
“People that were originally his friends, they kind of turned on him. A lot of people, they either joined in or they were too scared to say anything.”
The anti-gay bullying continued online, where classmates created a hate group against gays and added Kenneth’s friends as members.
Kenneth’s mother, Jeannie Chambers said her son told her time and time again that he was hated at school, telling her, “Mom, you don’t know how it feels to be hated.”
Details on Kenneth’s death are otherwise scarce, but a Facebook group was set up in his memory. His funeral will be held Thursday morning at Grace Lutheran Church in Primghar.
