The Courier.Before he stepped off the bus, the assailants had yelled antigay slurs at him, then followed him when he got off.“There were three of them, they attacked him from behind, he fell on the ground and hit his head,” the victim’s mother told the paper. “They punched him in the face and started kicking him on the ground.”Witnesses of the attack stepped in and separated the assailants from the boy.“It’s really upsetting,” the mother said. “I’ve been young myself and I can understand that kids sometimes can be a bit cruel towards anyone who is different but the whole violence, that’s really scary.”She continued: “It could have been much worse and the idea of him not being able to walk around the street in St.