“Mom, you don’t know how it feels to be hated.”

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14-year old Kenneth Weishuhn, Jr. died by suicide this weekend after coming out as gay two months ago and being mercilessly bullied by classmates, was receiving death threats on his cell phone and was the subject of a Facebook hate group. “Mom, you don’t know how it feels to be hated,” Kenneth told his mother.

Weishuhn was just a freshman at South O’Brien High School, which serves three small towns in northwest Iowa, including Primghar, Kenneth’s hometown of 909 people. School officials apparently were aware of the bullying but did not notify Kenneth’s family.

“A lot of people, they either joined in or they were too scared to say anything,” said Kenneth’s sister. “To make someone feel so horrible about themselves, so miserable. To make them hate themselves they way my brother must have.”