(KNX 1070) -- Tami Charles says her fifth-grade son, Seven Bridges, 10, was unrelentingly bullied over the colostomy bag he was forced to use after multiple surgeries failed to fix a medical condition.
The family says kids at school and on the bus would tease Seven because of the smell that stemmed from his condition. They add that in one incident, he was choked and called a racial slur, causing him to faint and be taken to the hospital for a CT scan.
"He couldn't fight back," Charles said about her son who loved to dress up as different super-heroes. "He didn't know how to hurt you. He had no malice, none, and I'm just looking at him like, 'Are you even my child?' Because I would've gave that little kid a two-piece and a biscuit.
"But he didn't have that in him. All he did was pray for the boy."
Charles fought for Jefferson County Public Schools to open an investigation into the incident. A spokesperson from JCPS has said they would not go into details about what disciplinary action may have been taken against the accused bully.
"We can't get into student discipline and again we're going to be reviewing everything to see how we handled things on our end," Renee Murphy explained in an interview with reporters at WHAS, but went on to say that "matters were addressed."
The Kentucky school district has said it will conduct a "full investigation" into the complaints of bullying, adding in a statement that "our hearts are breaking for this family."
The family told Louisville station WDRB that they had already planned to move Seven to another school district next year.
Seven's mother found him hanging in his closet after she returned from the grocery store. She told WDRB the family will likely take legal action against Jefferson County Public Schools.
A GoFundMe page has been created to help pay for the boy's funeral.
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