- Billy Lucas
He was a teenager who didn’t quite fit in. His classmates said Billy Lucas was bullied for being different. The 15-year-old never told anyone he was gay but students at Greensburg High School thought he was and so they picked on him.
“People would call him ‘fag’ and stuff like that, just make fun of him because he’s different basically,” said student Dillen Swango.
Students told Fox59 News it was common knowledge that children bullied Billy and from what they said, it was getting worse. Last Thursday, Billy’s mother found him dead inside their barn. He had hung himself.
Students said on that same day, some students told Billy to kill himself. “They said stuff like ‘you’re like a piece of crap’ and ‘you don’t deserve to live.’ Different things like that. Talked about how he was gay or whatever,” said Swango.
Six teenagers who bullied a student to death in Massachusetts—a straight female student—are being prosecuted for harassment, amongst other crimes. Will charges be brought against the students who bullied Billy Lucas to death? Or are we going to continue to treat gay kids like their lives are less valuable than those of straight kids?
And, hey, another dead gay teenager—mission accomplished, “Christians.”
The crime tip number for the Greensburg police department is 812-662-7463.
That’s a misleading headline, don’t you think? From what you’ve posted and from the information in the linked article, it seems that there’s no evidence that he was, in fact, gay.
Or, to quote Mr. Show, “NO GAY SON OF MINE IS A NOT-GAY!”
Dan, you realize you’re posting this on a site that links to the westboro baptist church?
This was a child with inadequate coping skills. Who gives a frack about his gender preference.
Teach you kid some coping skills, Aikido, and to Vogue then they can be themselves and be respected, or at least feared.
“This was a child with inadequate coping skills.”
Seriously??
Bullies are children with inadequate parenting, inadequate self esteem, inadequate compassion, surrounded by inadequate leaders and inadequate discipline.
Teach your children respect, then they can be themselves without needing to be feared, or have fear.