A 9-year-old girl has committed suicide after her schoolmates bullied
her for being friends with a white boy, her family has said.McKenzie
Nicole Adams suffered a year of vile abuse from pupils at US Jones
Elementary School in Alabama before she eventually took her own life.
She
hanged herself at her home in Linden on December 3, according to
reports. Her body was found by her granny.McKenzie's family said she had
been teased over her friendship with a white boy by bullies at her
school, who told her to kill herself.
Her
aunt Eddwina Harris told the Tuscaloosa News: She was being bullied the
entire school year, with words such as 'Kill yourself…you think you’re
white because you ride with that white boy…you ugly.. black
(expletive)…just die'.McKenzie had transferred from another school where
she had also been the victim of abuse from other students.
