In Cincinnati, Ohio, an 8 year-old boy named Gabriel Taye killed himself due to bullying. School officials never told the mother of the boy that another student had thrown him against the bathroom wall and knocked him unconscious.

On January 26th , the 8 year-old hanged himself with a necktie in his bedroom of his Cincinnati home. School officials called his mother the day her son was bullied but told her that her son fainted, attorney Carla Leader told the Associated Press.

“They didn’t tell her the whole story,” Leader stated. “The school also said his vitals were fine and he was alert.”

The mother had only become aware of the bullying after her attorneys obtained a police investigation file over her son’s death. In a statement issued Thursday, Cincinnati Public Schools did not have the officials at the elementary school tell Gabriel’s mother what had happened.

The boy was stepped over by other students, and some poked him with their feet as he lay there unconscious for 7 minutes before an assistant principal and nurse came to his aid. The boy’s mother came to get him from school when she found out what had happened.

After the boy vomited and complained about a pain in his stomach, his mother took him to the hospital. The doctors said he only had a stomach virus and told him to go home, but none of them knew what happened to the boy earlier in school’s bathroom.

The Cincinnati Public Schools provided a different version of events. “While we are concerned about the length of time that (the boy) lay motionless and the lack of adult supervision at the scene, the school administrators followed protocol and bought the boy to the nurse to have him evaluated,” their press release said.

The boy was described as a “happy-go-lucky kid” who showed no signs of mental illness or depression. When the boy came home from school January 26th, he spoke with his mother for a while, went into his room, and hung himself from his bunk bed.

“The email from the homicide detective, which was shared with The Associated Press, describes what he saw in the surveillance video. The detective said it appeared that the ‘primary agitator’ hit one child in the stomach, sending him to the floor on hands and knees. The 8-year-old then approached the aggressor and tried to shake his hand but was pulled to the floor,” the detective wrote.

Although now the school is trying to say that the boy was not in fact bullied or pulled down but fainted. Officials say that they watched the tape over and over again but saw no signs of any bullying.

When watching the tape, it was clear that the 8 year-old boy’s arm was pulled by another young man, and he was brought to the floor, knocking him unconscious. Bullied or not, nobody can still seem to understand why Gabriel Taye would want to take his life at only age 8.