Ten Year Old Girl Commits Suicide by Hanging Due to Bullying at School

[SeaBreeze]

Very sad story that such a young child would take her life as a result of being bullied. I also think that social media has so much to do with the suicides these days, wish people could change that around. Full story here.

A 10-year-old Colorado girl committed suicide after a video of a fight with an alleged bully was posted online, her parents said.
Ashawnty Davis’ parents said the fifth-grader at Sunrise Elementary School in Aurora, Colo., wanted to grow up to be a WNBA star, but that dream was cut short when the little girl was involved in a fight last month.
“She got into her first ever fight. It was recorded by a student and sent to an app called Musical.ly,” her father Anthony Davis told KDVR, adding the incident occurred at the end of October on school property.
In the video, he said, Ashawnty and another girl are seen fighting while a group of kids watch.


Latoshia Harris, the girl’s mother, said the incident happened because her daughter confronted the other girl, who she claims had been bullying Ashawnty.
“I saw my daughter was scared,” she added. “She was devastated when she found out that it had made it to Musical.ly.”


The 10-year-old’s parents said the little girl endured even more bullying after the video surfaced online and it was just too much for her to handle.


“My daughter came home two weeks later and hanged herself in the closet,” Harries said.


Ashawnty spent nearly two weeks at Children’s Hospital Colorado on life support. She died Wednesday morning.


“It’s just devastating,” Davis said, adding that his daughter is now the victim of “bullycide,” a term used for when someone commits suicide because of bullying. “We have to stop it and we have to stop it within our kids.”

 

[Sunny]

Horrible story. With every rumor and nasty bit of gossip spreading over the internet with the speed of light, this can only get worse. Used to be that kids only had to worry about their friends and classmates at school finding out about something. Now, it's the whole world.

I don't understand why her future career with the WNBA was "cut short" by a fight at age 10. Probably there was more to the story. But it's tragic in any case.

 

[911]

Back in the early '90's, we had a similar incident occur. Same thing; two girls. One girl was very smart, pretty and had lots of friends. Her "used to be" friend (not sure what that is, but that's the way it was described) became very jealous and started to hang with a different crowd. Soon, the group developed this plan to create a fake boyfriend, Facebook pal, texting and the whole bit. They started texting her making her believe that this fake boyfriend was interested in her. Of course her being a 15 year-old ninth grader and being impressionable, she ate it up. Her Mom was aware of the attention that she was getting from this older boy from another school, but didn't think much about it.

So, this group of kids set her up with a date on a Friday night at the upcoming school dance by having this fictitious boy ask her to the dance. Her Mom was to drive her to the dance and drop her off. Inside she was to meet this made up boy. After waiting about a half hour and the boy not showing up, she tried texting him, but he never answered. The other kids started making fun of her, calling her names and so on. On Monday, it continued and the kids took it further by knocking her books out of her hand, calling her vile names, telling her she was fat and ugly and hanging dirty pictures in her locker, along with a bunch of other stuff. At this point, she was too embarrassed to tell her Mom or any of her teachers. On that terrible, terrible day, it was raining and as the kids walked home, some of the boys and girls walked up to her and threw her into a big puddle of mud. When she got home, she took some rope off of a coil of rope that was hanging in the basement and tied one end of it around her neck and the other end she threw over a ceiling rafter in the basement and tied a knot. Her older brother found her when he got home from school. He had called for her and when she didn't answer, he looked into her room and saw her books laying on her bed. When he went back downstairs, he saw the basement door open and the light on, so he went down to see if she was there. I was the second Trooper to arrive on the scene. The first Trooper to arrive was a rookie and he wasn't in too good of shape, so I took charge of the crime scene until the Investigators arrived.

Bullying is a terrible thing and should be punished by the law, except when it comes to this age group, it really becomes difficult to get the conviction and sentence that the family is deserved.