A heartbroken mother has shared a photo of her son’s body in his coffin after he was driven to suicide by bullies. Cheryl Hudson first shared the picture of her son Andy Leach on Facebook.The picture, which is below, may cause distress, but she hopes it will encourage bullies to think more carefully about the effects of their cruelty.
Andy, 12, was found hanged in his father’s garage in Southaven, Mississippi last Tuesday after months of threats by classmates who tormented him. Cheryl told Metro US: ‘He hung himself, his 15 year-old brother found him. ‘He did leave a note. In fact, he left a few. there were a few different notes that were found, where he’s been thinking of this for quite some time.
‘He left a note, and he drew a picture of how he expected to be found, and that’s how he was found. ‘He’d been bullied off and on through most of the school year.’ Andy was a sixth-grader at Southaven Middle School, with Cheryl slating senior staff there for failing to do more to help her boy. She said the bullies, who are now being probed by police.