A Utah family is reeling this week after the sudden death of their 12-year-old son at the hands of bullies.
(Trigger Warning: Details of suicide below).
Drayke Hardman was found in his bedroom on February 10th after using his favorite hoodie to hang himself from his bunk bed.
In a now-viral Instagram post, which has been liked nearly 2.8 million times, Drayke’s mom Samie Hardman shared photos of her son at a local hospital following his suicide attempt. He died the next morning.
“This…. This is the result of bullying,” she captioned the photo last week. “My handsome boy was fighting a battle that not even I could save him [from]. It is real, it is silent and there is nothing absolutely nothing as a parent you can do to take this deep hurt away. There are no signs, only hurtful words of others that ultimately stole our Drayke from this cruel place.”
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