British
14-year-old Belinda Allen committed suicide because of
antigay taunting at her school, according to London's
Daily Mail. Allen's body was found in Southwater.
which is West Sussex county. Investigators said she had
tied a scarf around her neck and hanged herself from a
tree.
While it is
unknown whether Allen was gay, she had been continually
bullied over her choice in clothes and called names
like "lesbian" and "dyke" by her peers at Tanbridge
House School in Horsham, West Sussex.
Allen's suicide
is not the only such incident. Last year an
11-year-old boy, Ben Vodden, at the same school, hanged
himself from his bunk bed using his shoelaces.
In December,
British government officials urged schools to create
anti-bullying programs to protect LGBT students,
saying that homophobia would not be tolerated. (The
Advocate)
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