Boy, 11, on ventilator for rest of life after bullies made him attempt suicide

An 11-year-old boy will require a ventilator for the rest of his life after being driven to attempt suicide by school bullies.

Jamari Black left La Rabida Children’s Hospital in Chicago on Wednesday, six months after a failed attempt to hang himself life left him badly brain-damaged.

He suffered from a severe brain injury after the organ was deprived of oxygen for 11 minutes, killing many of his neural cells.

Shocking Facebook photos of Jamari in his hospital bed sparked a huge outcry over the torture which drove him to attempt to end it all.

The youngster’s family are delighted to have him home, but his mother Teirra Black remains furious about taunts made by students and teachers she blames for Jamari’s injuries.

Teirra says bullies at Woodson Elementary School in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood called Jamari ‘stupid’ and ‘dumb’.

Recalling what her son said shortly before his suicide attempt, Teirra told CBS Chicago: ‘He said “Mommy, I don’t want to go to school tomorrow.”

‘He said, “I’m tired of them messing with me at that school.”‘

Teirra says she asked the school to tackle her son’s tormentors, only for them to ignore her.

She added: ‘I’m so mad.’

The mother also told of the moment she found her greviously injured son in his room, saying: ‘I started screaming.

‘I’m like, “Jamari!”

‘I fell to my knees. I said, “What did you do, Jamari?”‘

The Black family attorney Jon Erickson laid the blame for Jamari’s injuries at the door of the city’s education bosses.

He said: ‘He’s breathing through a tube, and he’s breathing through a tube because of the criminal indifference of the Chicago Public Schools.’

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