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US mother sends gay son with gun to school
Tuesday May 08, 2012 09:34:03 AM,
IANS
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Washington:
A woman in the US state of Indiana sent her gay son to school with
a stun-gun to counter students bullying him.
Chelisa Grimes did it after administrators apparently didn't do
enough to stop the bullying against her son. The mother says she
will do it again -- even though the teen now faces expulsion, CNN
reported Monday.
"I do not promote violence -- not at all -- but what is a parent
to do when she has done everything that she felt she was supposed
to do ... at the school?" said Grimes. "I did feel like there was
nothing else left for me to do, but protect my child."
The school district held an expulsion hearing last week but no
decision has been announced.
Grimes sent her son to Arsenal Technical High School in
Indianapolis with the stun gun after he said he was being taunted
and bullied for months.
After six students surrounded him at school April 16, calling him
names and threatening to beat him up, he pulled the stun gun from
his backpack...sending the group scurrying, he said.
"I brought the stun gun 'cause I wasn't safe," said the
17-year-old.
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