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I just got scared: Baltimore teen accused of killing classmate is found not guilty
Before Donte Crawford was accused of stabbing a classmate in the heart at their West Baltimore high school, he had been bullied for months, he and his relatives told a Baltimore jury.
Crawford, now 18, testified Friday at his trial for first-degree murder that 17-year-old Ananias Jolley and some of his friends had been tormenting him, according to the Baltimore Sun. They attacked him after school, he said, and ridiculed him about his mother, who would show up at Renaissance Academy High School intoxicated.
One of Crawfords cousins testified that he was there when the teenager was kicked and punched repeatedly, the Sun reported. Another cousin told the jury that the family tried to remove the teenager from Renaissance because he was being threatened.
Relatives said they went with Crawford to Jolleys house to try to make peace. But Jolley, a senior who dreamed of becoming an architect, wasnt home.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/baltimore-teen-accused-of-stabbing-a-classmate-in-the-heart-is-found-not-guilty/2016/09/30/5f6cc59e-8742-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html
Before Donte Crawford was accused of stabbing a classmate in the heart at their West Baltimore high school, he had been bullied for months, he and his relatives told a Baltimore jury.
Crawford, now 18, testified Friday at his trial for first-degree murder that 17-year-old Ananias Jolley and some of his friends had been tormenting him, according to the Baltimore Sun. They attacked him after school, he said, and ridiculed him about his mother, who would show up at Renaissance Academy High School intoxicated.
One of Crawfords cousins testified that he was there when the teenager was kicked and punched repeatedly, the Sun reported. Another cousin told the jury that the family tried to remove the teenager from Renaissance because he was being threatened.
Relatives said they went with Crawford to Jolleys house to try to make peace. But Jolley, a senior who dreamed of becoming an architect, wasnt home.
When will schools start taking bullying seriously?
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‘I just got scared’: Baltimore teen ... (Original Post)
sarisataka
Oct 2016
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spanone
(135,915 posts)1. K&R...
undergroundpanther
(11,925 posts)2. I know bullies nearly
Drove me to drastic action. Now I'm still in psych treatment have been most of my life.home wasn't safe nor was school. Not the neighborhood. I stayed high up in the trees in the woods the only safe place I found.Or inside my chicken coop or the doghouse,or the huge maple tree in our backyard my father had no hope of getting to me.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)3. I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope you are doing ok now.
I know what it's like to live in fear of an abusive parent. The fear never really goes away.