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	<title><![CDATA['Getting Real' About Bullying-Related Suicides]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/debra-chasnoff/getting-real-about-bullyi_b_188043.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>This week another young life was silently lost in our nation's schools. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/carl-joseph-walker-hoover_n_186911.html">Eleven year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover killed himself</a> after enduring months of anti-gay bullying at his school in Springfield, Massachusetts. </p>

<p>Carl's shocking suicide is the latest in a growing trend. Just last week, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/debra-chasnoff/break-the-silence-on-bull_b_184158.html">parents in Ohio filed a lawsuit </a>against the school district where their son, Eric Mohat, was also subjected to ongoing anti-gay harassment before, he too, committed suicide. The pervasiveness of bullying, and more specifically...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-04-17T12:33:00-04:00</date_published>
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