Disabled Pickering boy took his own life after he was mugged and bullied

[shockedcanadian]

I know this is a political site, but I needed to post this. I read the story a couple of days ago in another newspaper publication and it brought tears to my eyes (along with anger and frustration).

It is truly a sad tale to hear that an 11 year old has taken his own life. It does not even compute. R.I.P little Mitchell.


"By his 11th birthday, Mitchell Wilson had already endured a lifetime of pain.

He was 8 when his mother died of cancer three years ago.

The next year he was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, a degenerative and incurable disease that was slowly destroying his muscles and would one day leave him paralyzed.

And last November, while on one of his prescribed daily walks, Mitchell was jumped by a 12-year-old boy he knew from his elementary school in Pickering. The older child, who was after the iPhone Mitchell borrowed from his father to listen to music while he walked, smashed Mitchell’s face into the pavement so hard he broke some of the boy’s teeth..."



http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1059479--disabled-pickering-boy-took-his-own-life-after-he-was-mugged-and-bullied?bn=1