10-Year-Old Boy Bullied Over Colostomy Bag Died By Suicide

Seven Bridges spent much of his short life in surgery as doctors attempted to correct a bowel condition that he was born with. Despite undergoing 26 different procedures, the ten-year-old Kentucky boy was forced to wear a colostomy bag, something that ultimately led to him taking his own life.

Bridges endured months of bullying from his classmates over the colostomy bag and eventually had enough and hanged himself in a closet in his home. 

The young boy's mother, Tami Charles, found him after she returned home from grocery shopping.

“I saw my son dead. That's something in my head,” she told WHAS-TV.

Charles explained that the worst incident happened in September when another student called the young boy a racial slur while they were on the bus. One of Bridges' friends said he should beat up the student, but when he refused, his friend started choking him.

His mother said that she had to fight with officials at Jefferson County Public Schools to open an investigation into the incident, but in the end, nothing was done and Bridges' continued to be bullied by his classmates.

His parents said that they are planning to pursue legal action against the school district. 

“It wasn't that JCPS didn't have these tools, they just weren't at our school. It wasn't that they didn't have these tools to help the victims of bullying, they just weren't there, they weren't used,” Charles explained.


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