I'm so sorry for those poor parents. My son was relentlessly bullied because he was overweight and had a stutter. He started self-harming at around 8 years old. Years later he told me that the teachers were the bullies and protectors of the child bullies. The teachers would comment on his weight and tell him to run while the class laughed. This is despite me telling them he suffered from chronic nosebleeds and was placed on steroids because of it. I wish I had known then what he was enduring but he, like so many victims shut down. This was a preventable tragedy.