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Apr 15, 2009 7:45 pm US/Eastern

Mass. Boy, 11, Commits Suicide Over Bullying

Mother: Carl Walker-Hoover Endured Months Of Taunting At School

 CBS News Interactive: Children In Danger

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (CBS) ― An 11-year-old Massachusetts boy was laid to rest Wednesday after his limp body was discovered hanging from an extension cord by his mother in their Massachusetts home last week.

Carl Walker-Hoover committed suicide on April 10 after enduring months of bullying at school, according to his mother, Sirdeana Walker.

Walker said she contacted The New Leadership Charter School her son attended on more than one occasion and joined the school's parent-teacher organizations, according to CBS affiliate WSHM-TV in Springfield. But nothing was done to help stop the taunting her son endured at school, she said.

Carl left a note for his family in which he apologized, told his mother he loved her and left his video games to his brother, police told the Boston Herald.

At Carl's funeral Wednesday, a classmate told WSHM, "Everybody liked him, I didn't think he would be the one to get bullied."

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