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US mum's anguish over nine-year-old son's suicide
The mother of a US nine-year-old, who she says killed himself after enduring homophobic bullying, says she "should have seen the pain in his eyes".
Leia Rochelle Pierce from Denver, Colorado, said her son, Jamel Myles, had been proud to tell people he was gay when he returned to school.
She told Victoria Derbyshire some fellow pupils told him to kill himself.
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