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14-Year Old Victim of Antigay Bullying, Brandon Bitner, Commits Suicide
Fourteen-year-old Brandon Bitner of Mount Pleasant Mills, Pa., walked in front of a tractor-trailer in the early hours of Friday morning, and his friends say he was driven to suicide after being bullied because he was perceived to be gay. Bitner, a freshman at Midd-West High School in Middleburg, dressed in emo-style clothing and was bullied mercilessly for it, according to fellow students. “Anyone in our school who looks different is tortured,” sophomore Emily Beall-Ellersieck told The Daily Item.
November 08 2010 9:30 AM EST
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