Sammy Teusch was a bright and loving 10-year-old boy who loved soccer, fishing, and robots. Sadly, he is now also the young boy who tragically took his own life after suffering years of relentless bullying.
His heart-wrenching story sheds light on the devastating impact of bullying on children and emphasizes the urgent need for change as bullying continues to become increasingly present in and outside of school.
Source: Daily Mail UK Sammy and his family were originally from Florida, where Sammy was reportedly a happy, healthy kid. He had plenty of friends and got along well with the rest of his classmates. All of this changed, however, when the Teusch family moved to Greenfield, Indiana in 2022. The new kid in town and who the other students apparently decided didn’t fit in there, he became a target of bullying at Weston Elementary and then Greenfield Intermediate School.Sammy apparently asked the teachers for help many times, and was either ignored, told he was the problem and not the others, and even made fun of by some teachers themselves. Sammy’s parents also say that they reached out to the school at least 20 times about the issue. They say that they asked for something to be done and for the teachers and the school to protect their child. Their please were met either with silence or an insinuation that it was Sammy’s ‘mental health’ or behavior that was causing the bullying.Physical and Verbal Abuse