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British Gay Teen Committed Suicide, Mother Says He Was "Bullied To Death"

Keenan-Olson swallowed an overdose of prescription pills in March, leaving two suicide notes that revealed he could no longer cope with the racist and homophobic harassment he suffered at the Philip Morant School in Colchester.

Keenan-Olsen had reported at least 20 separate incidents of bullying to school officials.

Despite support from his family, to whom he had come out to earlier in the year, Ayden bypassed the security settings on his computer to research suicide methods. He had attempted to take his own life unsuccessfully a few months earlier.

"He said he was gay and had found somebody he thought he loved but it was not reciprocated. We didn't care, we just loved him whatever,"  Ayden's mother, Shy Keenan, said at the hearing.  "[Afterward] it was like talking to a different boy – since he was able to say out loud to people that he was gay,"

Ayden had been “bullied to death” Mrs. Keenan, a child-abuse campaigner, told Essex coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray, adding: “My job is to protect kids online but I could not keep my own son safe."

She described her son as a sensitive child who played music and planned on starting his own anti-bullying campaign. She plans on campaigning for new law to ban suicide sites like the one Ayden visited.

According to The Telegraph, Beasley-Murray "recorded a verdict of suicide but said it was not her job to attribute blame and made no finding regarding bullying or the school's conduct."

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