Mitchell Wilson Bullied, Suicide Of 11 Year Old Boy With Muscular Dystrophyrophy
By his 11th birthday, Mitchell Wilson had already endured a lifetime of pain. He was 8 when his mother died of cancer three years ago. The next year he was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, a degenerative and incurable disease that was slowly destroying his muscles and would one day leave him paralyzed. PHOTOS: The life of Mitchell Wilson And last November, while on one of his prescribed daily walks, Mitchell was jumped by a 12-year-old boy he knew from his elementary school in Pickering. The older child, who was after the iPhone Mitchell borrowed from his father to listen to music while he walked, smashed Mitchell's face into the pavement so hard he broke some of the boy's teeth. The attack, Mitchell's parents say, led their son on a downward spiral which culminated in his suicide earlier this month. "He was never the same after the mugging," said Mitchell's father, Craig Wilson, who found his son's lifeless body on Sept. 6 — a plastic bag tied around the young boy's head — when he went to wake him up for what would have been his first day of Grade 6. "Ultimately it shattered his life." The alleged mugger was arrested the day after the attack, charged with assault and removed from Westcreek Public School. But the older boy's friends remained, and they blamed Mitchell for getting their friend in trouble — following him home from school and taunting him about his slow and laboured gait. Meanwhile, the spectre of the attack continued to haunt Mitchell, who had grown <b>...</b>
