A Douglas County family is now planning a funeral for 12-year-old Jada West, a Mason Creek Middle School student whose death has left relatives searching for answers and blaming what they say was ongoing bullying after she transferred to a new school.
In a report for FOX 5 Atlanta, Kevyn Stewart said Jada had only recently moved from Bowdon and started at Mason Creek at the beginning of the second semester in January. According to her family, that fresh start did not stay peaceful for long.
Stewart reported that Jada’s parents said she had been bullied after arriving at the school. He said her father had already gone to the school to try to deal with some of the trouble, which the family said involved both a boy and a girl…