This is starting to get old, but this is the world we live in.  Another tragic situation, another life lost.  I couldn’t really think of anything to do except copy and paste part of this story.

Eleven-year-old Jaheem Herrera woke up on April 16 acting strangely. He wasn’t hungry and he didn’t want to go to school.

He came home much happier than when he left in the morning, smiling as he handed his mother, Masika Bermudez, a glowing report card full of A’s and B’s. She gave him a high-five and he went upstairs to his room as she prepared dinner.

A little later, when his younger sister called him to come down to eat, Jaheem didn’t answer.

So mother and daughter climbed the stairs to Jaheem’s room and opened the door.

Jaheem was hanging by his belt in the closet.

“I always used to see these things on TV, dead people on the news,” says Bermudez. “I saw somebody die and to see this dead person is your son, hanging there, a young boy. … To hang yourself like that, you’ve got to really be tired of something.”

Bermudez says bullies at school pushed Jaheem over the edge. He complained about being called gay, ugly and “the virgin” because he was from the Virgin Islands, she said.

“He used to say Mom they keep telling me this … this gay word, this gay, gay, gay. I’m tired of hearing it, they’re telling me the same thing over and over,” she told CNN, as she wiped away tears from her face.

But while she says her son complained about the bullying, she had no idea how bad it had gotten.

“He told me, but he just got to the point where he didn’t want me to get involved anymore because nothing was done,” she said.

Bermudez said she complained to the school about bullying seven or eight times, but it wasn’t enough to save him.

Unfortunately, a former co-worker of mine went through a similar situation.  In that situation, I actually asked him how his son was doing – a son that lived under his roof – and his response was, “I don’t know, I haven’t been able to get with him.  It was his son!  I can’t imagine having to “Get with” my daughter and I certainly can’t imagine the pain that followed his tragedy.  Sad.