Jacob Cordero is the school bully at the American Heritage Academy in Georgia. His hostility went so far that one of his victims, Zachary Jamison, became severely depressed.
"People would like take his lunch, take sweatshirts," Jacob said of Zachary. "He was just kind of quiet. He never really seemed too sad about it."
When Zachary was diagnosed with arthritis he began walking with a limp, that's when the jokes and rejection began.
"When I was in school, kids called me chicken legs and other funny names because of the way I walked," Jamison said at a speech for an arthritis fundraiser. Still, his parents didn't take the bullying seriously.
"I don't think either one of us fully appreciated the hurricane that was going on inside of him," his father, Scott Jamison said.
Then one day Zachary told his mom and dad that he wanted to kill himself. "I felt the blood drain out of my face," Scott said. Fortunately, Zachary did not.
A faculty member at the school had Zachary sit down with Jacob. Jacob had no idea he affected Zachary that much.
"[I felt] very sad because I had been part of the making fun of him and leaving him out," Jacob said. "How he felt, how it had crushed him and he wasn't able to do anything," Cordero said.
Sometimes the "bad kids" have more issues than we think. In another news story, Taylor was labelled a bad seed, it took a social worker with a heart of gold to break through his outer shell.
"He is extremely different this year," Jamison said. See how both the bully and the bullied transformed in the video below.
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