*A West Alabama family is grieving the death of their 9-year-old daughter who took her life after bullies taunted her with racist remarks, cbs42.com.
McKenzie Adams was a fourth-grade student at U.S. Jones elementary school in Demopolis. McKenzie’s mother, Jasmine Adams, says her daughter informed teachers and the assistant principal that she was being repeatedly harassed.
“She told me that this one particular child was writing her nasty notes in class. It was just things you wouldn’t think a 9-year-old should know,” she told the station. “And for my baby to tell me some of the things they had said to her. I was like, where are they learning this from.”
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McKenzie’s grandmother discovered her body on December 3, at their home in Linden after she hung herself. The City Schools attorney, Alex Brasswell, says the case is under investigation.
“We are working fully with the Demopolis and Linden police department. They are doing a joint investigation of these allegations. We are cooperating fully and I can’t comment on any of the aspects of the investigation until they conclude it” Brasswell said.
The school also expressed condolences to the little girl’s family.
“Certainly, our hearts goes out to the family and friends of McKenzie and her fellow students as well as her teachers. Demopolis school system has provided grief counselors and crisis counselors at the school since this and ministers and youth ministers have been at the campus since the date of this incident. And we certainly want to extend those services to any students and teachers on our campus as they go through this healing process.”
Jasmine Adams feels the school system let her daughter down.
“I just felt that our trust was in them that they would do the right thing,” Adams said, “And it feels like to me it wasn’t done”.
Adams says race played a factor in the bullying. A white family friend reportedly drove McKenzie to school every day.
“She was being bullied the entire school year, with words such as ‘kill yourself,’ ‘you think you’re white because you ride with that white boy,’ ‘you ugly,’ ‘black b*tch,’ ‘just die,’” Edwinna Harris, McKenzie’s aunt, told the Tuscaloosa News.
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