Schoolboy Aged Just NINE Badly Bullied By Peers Kills Self

A nine-year-old boy has killed himself after he was badly bullied by peers from his elementary school. Jackson Grubb was found dead by his sister in his room in Raleigh, West Virginia on Saturday.

Police said the boy was found hanging and no foul play is suspected by authorities in his death.

Relatives of the third-grader had noticed a change in Jackson's behavior and say Sophia Soak Creek Elementary school bullies, who sometimes waited to torment him by his trailer park, caused the child to take his own life.

'I was spending time with him, trying to get it out of him. But Jack's the type that holds things in and I couldn't get to him,' said Jackson's grandmother and guardian, Betsy Baber.

Baber said Jackson tried to fend off the bullies with humor and sometimes by force although he had lost he desire to fight them in recent weeks. His grandmother also helped build him a clubhouse to help him make more friends.

I don't know what he was thinking,' Jackson's uncle Shane Baber said. 'He wanted to spend the night with me for two days and I couldn't figure out what was going on.'

On Saturday afternoon the boy's sister found her brother's body in his room after she went to cheer him up with a frog she had found outside.

His mother Diana Crump said: 'We came straight over. I saw the ambulance go that way and I said, "Turn around! Turn around! That's Jackson!" When I got to the hospital they wouldn't let me in so I knew when I saw EMS crying that he was gone.'

'Based upon the examination of the scene and interview of various witnesses and neighbors foul play is not suspected,' according to the Raleigh County Sheriff's Office.

Jackson's body was sent to the West Virginia Medical Examiner's Office for examination.

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Schoolboy With Severe Peanut Allergy Dies After Eating Sweet Handed Out At Religious Festival

A schoolboy with a severe peanut allergy died after eating a sweet made from the nuts at a religious festival.

An inquest into the tragic death of Aaron O’Farrell at Chesterfield Coroner’s Court heard there were no warnings on the packaging that the sweet was made entirely from peanuts.

The youngster had been at a Hindu religious festival in Birmingham, held 20 days before Diwali, the festival of lights.

The sweets were given out by organisers as worshippers left the event.

The 11-year-old was at home with his parents James and Jayne just before lunchtime when he ate a small piece of the sweet.

Within moments he started feeling sick and was given a soft drink, but soon began having difficulty breathing.

His brother gave him a shot from his epipen and he was still conscious when paramedics arrived, but then went into cardiac arrest.

By the time the ambulance had raced the seven miles from his semi-detached home in Doe Lea, Derbys, to Chesterfield Royal Hospital his heart had stopped beating.

Medics battled to save the “kind and courageous” youngster, but he was pronounced dead later in hospital.

Chesterfield Coroners Court heard Aaron had been diagnosed with a peanut allergy when he was five after he had suffered skin rashes and a wheezy chest after being in the same room as peanuts.

A post mortem after the fatal incident on Sunday 28, September, 2014, showed an “abundance of mucus” and blood in his airways which was consistent with a severe allergic reaction.

Tests showed increase levels of the enzyme tryptase which confirmed Aaron had suffered anaphylaxis.

Aaron has started secondary school the day before he died.

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