Hi Jake
I wanted to post this report of another tragedy, another teenage suicide that happened here in Seattle last week. The following is the printed version of the radio report that ran earlier this week.
Updated Jan 26, 2011 - 2:28 pm The boy who killed himself on I-5 Last Friday a teenager jumped off a I-5 overpass, fell to the freeway below, was struck by a van, and died. Many people heard a little bit about what happened because Northbound I-5 was closed for several hours and traffic backed up miles during the afternoon commute. Who was he? He was 15 years old, born in December of 1995. The Snohomish County Medical Examiner identifies him as Roger Eugene Benson. When Benson was three years old, he was taken away from his parents. "Any child who becomes a dependent of child welfare is a victim of child abuse or neglect," says Sherry Hill, with the state Children's Administration. "It has to reach a point of questions of a child's safety in order to be actually removed from their parents." For the next 12 years the bounced around from one home or facility to the next. During that time the state worked "cooperatively" with the Yakama Tribal Court and the Yakama Tribal Child Welfare Agency to provide services for the boy. Hill says it's not typical for a child to be a ward of the state for that many years. "In most cases we do whatever we can to find permanency for children, whether they return home or whether they end up with relatives," she says. This wasn't one of those cases of "permanency." He was involved in several crimes over the years. On January 7, 2011 he was placed in a group home in Lynnwood. The facility describes itself as a behavioral rehabilitation service. "On January 21st he ran away from the facility in the afternoon at 1:45 p.m. and law enforcement was immediately notified," says Hill. He left the group home at 1:45 in the afternoon. Fifteen minutes later he was on an I-5 overpass. A witness, who was also walking on the overpass, told investigators it looked like the 15 year old kneeled down momentarily. At 2:06 in the afternoon he jumped to his death. He committed suicide. There are people who know more about Benson, but they can't talk about him due to privacy laws. While the state will investigate "the fatality," as they call it, there's not more more they'll say. Hill says, "Everyone needs to always pay attention to the youth around them, whether they're in State care or whether they're at home." A spokesperson for the Lynnwood facility the teen ran away from says it "was extremely sad to hear of a young life that has been lost, and this is a very tragic situation. Our hearts and our prayers go out to the family and friends of this young man."
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Ugandan gay rights advocate killed By Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times / 01/27/2011 NAIROBI, Kenya -- David Kato knew he was a marked man. As the most outspoken gay rights advocate in a country where homophobia is so severe that Parliament is considering a bill to execute gay people, Kato had received a stream of death threats, his friends said. A few months ago, a Ugandan newspaper ran an anti-gay diatribe with Kato's picture on the front page under a banner urging, "Hang Them." Wednesday afternoon, Kato was beaten to death with a hammer in his rough-and-tumble neighborhood. Police officials were quick to chalk up the motive to robbery, but members of the small and increasingly besieged gay community in Uganda suspect otherwise. "David's death is a result of the hatred planted in Uganda by U.S. evangelicals in 2009," Val Kalende, chairwoman of one of Uganda's gay rights groups, said in a statement. "The Ugandan government and the so-called U.S. evangelicals must take responsibility for David's blood." Kalende was referring to visits in March 2009 by a group of American evangelicals, who held rallies and workshops in Uganda discussing how to turn gay people straight and how "the gay movement is an evil institution" intended to "defeat the marriage-based society." The Americans involved said they had no intention of stoking a violent reaction. But the anti-gay bill was drafted shortly thereafter. 
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