Bullying at school is thought to be the motive behind this week's fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy at a Finnish primary school, police in the city of Vantaa told a press conference on Wednesday. The suspect, also 12, had revealed under questioning that he had been subjected to bullying at the school, they said. The suspect transferred at the beginning of the year to the sixth class of the school, also attended by the three victims. Two other 12-year-olds were injured. The incident took place
Nex Benedict, an Oklahoma LGBTQ student, was bullied at school and involved in a fight the day before he died. The medical examiner ruled the death was caused by suicide.
The Rainbow Youth Project, a nonprofit organization that advocates for LGBTQ+ youth and has a call crisis center, has seen a 500% increase in the number of calls it received in the last week, following the death of Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old nonbinary sophomore at Owasso High School in Tulsa, Okla. Nex passed away on Feb. 8, a day after the teen was assaulted in a school bathroom. While Owasso Police say that the teen did not die as a result of trauma, parents say they will independently investigate the cause of Nex’s death.
A national crisis hotline for 2SLGBTQ+ youth says calls have spiked since the news about 16-year-old Nex Benedict, a nonbinary student from Owasso who died one day after a 'physical altercation' in the school bathroom, began to spread.
A proposal by the equality watchdog to collect data on the sexual orientation and gender identity of school pupils is a threat to safeguarding which could lead to “sexual exploitation” of children, gender critical campaigners have warned. ‘