Gay Boy Brutally Beaten by Classmates, Police Suppress Video
His family want you to see what happened. So what is this talk of “respecting the victim?”
I watched a video early this week that shocked me to my core. A 14-year-old boy in Ireland was set on by a pack of his teenage schoolmates — punched in the back of the head without warning, knocked to the ground, and then repeatedly kicked in the face, head and torso.
The attack took place in the green area of a housing estate at 2:30 in the afternoon on a bright sunny day, reportedly less than a hundred meters from the home of one of the boy’s family members. In the video, he can be seen struggling to his knees to try to crawl to safety. An attacker can be seen kicking him in the head again, knocking him back to the ground. Then, to a chorus of cheers from one of the attackers, the beating continued.
Eventually, the teens grew tired of kicking the boy and walked away.
He was hospitalized with severe concussion, facial bruising, bruising to his torso, and two cracked teeth. He has a sneaker mark ground into the middle of his forehead.
The boy’s family have told the LGBTQ newspaper Pink News that he has been the subject of sustained harassment and bullying at school because he is gay. They say…
