‘Deal with it’, school in China tells gay high school student bullied and sexually assaulted for months
- A disturbing case of bullying and sexual assault in China has again raised concerns that schools are turning a blind eye to serious incidents
- At one point the school advised the student being assaulted and bullied that he should drop out
In the most severe incident Xiaohao (not his real name) was stripped naked, pinned to the ground and forced to watch pornography while someone stimulated his genitals while being filmed.
During the assault he recalled one attacker asking, “Shouldn’t this give you pleasure since you are gay?”
Xiaohao, who made his experience public last Saturday, routinely asked for help from the school administrators, who told him to endure it.
“I am a homosexual. My dorm-mates bullied me. But the teachers asked me to put up with them and suggested I should drop out of the school,” he wrote on an online student helpline forum, hoping the publicity would bring help.
Xiaohao, 16, left the school but tried to commit suicide a few months later in a desperate cry for help.
