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I was reading the news while lunch cooked for Lucas and Ethan who are home sick from school today. I was very saddened to read about this 7 year old boy that was found hanging in his school’s bathroom unconscious, and died in the hospital two days later.

Here are two links about the story:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jYVZXXk6FFbh_Tr2gBfohzbanqzwD93ISFP02

http://www.khou.com/news/state/stories/khhou081003_jj_kid_game_death.d7a4db14.html

There are so few answers for this family that lost their son. I hope they find some kind of closure. I think I would go crazy with all the circumstances and unanswered questions around the whole thing.

Two other kids came through the bathroom while this boy was hanging and neither said anything until they were interviewed. That just seems so odd to me. I suppose they were scared or confused. I can see one lone child reacting in that way, but two? Neither screaming or calling for help? Neither bolting out of the bathroom afraid something awful was happening? Were they afraid of being blamed?

One child was said to have been in the bathroom the entire time … but doesn’t know how the boy became hung on the hook. My head is just spinning with questions just from reading the news article. I can’t imagine being that boy’s parents with all these unanswered questions, spinning thoughts, and an ocean full of emotions.

And this wasn’t a recent incident, it happened earlier this year. To go through months of not knowing must be extremely painful and horrible to go through. Unanswered questions of any kind are just haunting. I hope that they find answers to give this family the closure they need sometime very soon. My heart goes out to them.

I asked Ethan, who is also 7 years old, what he would do if he saw someone hanging in the boys bathroom and he said, “scream” …. and then he paused for a moment and said, “loud, not like a girl.” Not sure what he meant by not like a girl, I think he meant he’d scream for help and not just a scared scream. Silly boy. I think he would probably do both, scream of shock and fear and then scream for help. Of course what a child says they’d do and what they really do when faced with a situation are two very different things.

       

This entry was posted by Loretta on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 at 2:12 pm and is filed under General Stuff, In the News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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