Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: Instead the boy , his grin never relenting , had spat upon his face and Danny had felt the disgust course through his body . They had laughed at him , punched him and kicked him , but he had been stronger than that . Although he had run home to his mother , tear - stricken , his sobs had turned to yelling and cursing , blaming anything and everything for being poor , the fraction of him that yearned to be accepted by the others finally voicing out . His fists had pounded his mother 's chest as she had held him tight , the tears from his eyes flowing like a flooded river , all the while uttering only one word . 
Question: What may have happened to the boy ?
Output (English): They had been attacked by other boys .