TAUNTON Early last month, 14-year-old Iziah Gilbert was led into a bathroom at Taunton High School by another student he believed to be his friend. I realized that there was another person there already. So when I saw him, I knew something was wrong, he said. I tried to leave and he stopped me. He put one hand on my chest and pushed me into the urinal.
Iziah said a couple other students came in before the two boys already in the bathroom started hitting him. He said the students watched as the boys punched him, and he did not fight back, knowing how much bigger his attackers were compared to him.