Owasso school board blasted for “spitting on grave” of Nex Benedict by ignoring bullying

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Owasso school board blasted for “spitting on grave” of Nex Benedict by ignoring bullying

Angry community members spoke out at the first board meeting of the Owasso Public School District following the death of Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old transgender Native American student who died on February 8 after an alleged assault by three bullies in his high school bathroom. Medical experts have recently cast doubt upon a report from the state medical examiner’s office that ruled Benedict’s death as a likely suicide from the “combined toxicit…