A Teenage Boy Has Killed Himself After Being Outed As Bisexual
Channing Smith, a 16-year-old high school student killed himself after being outed online as bisexual. His family and classmates think this makes a case of “social media bullying” and have called for a thorough investigation.
After Smith’s sexually explicit text messages that he had exchanged with a male classmate the content was uploaded on social media, according to his family.
“He was absolutely humiliated,” his older brother, Joshua Smith, said by phone on Monday, describing the messages as “very explicit”, report the New York Times.
“There was no way he could have gone to school afterward,” he added.
In Channing’s final Instagram post he wrote: “I really hate how I can’t trust anyone because those I did were so fake.”
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