Girl commits suicide to escape bullies

[Jacklinger]

A 15 yr old girl killed herself because of relentless torment at the hands of bullies at her school.

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So sad. I'm posting this because I would like anyone here to know that if they're being tormented at school or anywhere else, they don't have to just put up with it until they're ready to die. You do have rights, and every time a bully causes you distress, that is a real crime punishable by jail time. If your teachers won't help you, then call the police and have the bully arrested. No one is permitted to touch you, verbally abuse you, or stalk you, for any reason, at any age.

I went through a lot of the same things this poor girl endured and I basically spent my entire adolescence wishing I was dead. I wish I had known I could've at least gone to the police if the school didn't do anything. I did have a couple of friends in the band but poor Pheobe had zero friends. I wonder if I would've hung myself too if I had no friends at the time?

Look how pretty she is.
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She came three thousand miles for a chance at a better life, instead, finding only hell and death.

Rest in peace, Phoebe.

[SkinKnee28]

This makes me think back to my freshman year of college at Temple University in Philadelphia cause i dealt with a REALLY bad situation with my roommate. I am no way racist etc. But i got put with a girl from boston. She never asked me what race i was etc before we met for the first time and honestly i didn't care. I thought this was going to be the best experience of my life. Before college started we exchanged emails/phone#/ and addresses to decide how/what to bring with us. She commented on hair stuff and i just said well i don't like to share any of that kinda stuff so i would really prefer we brought our own things.

We meet for the first time on move in day... i thought everything was fine, i set up all my stuff like usual. Introduced myself and my boyfriend to her and she seemed alright. Everyone had to leave by 5 for a meeting so he left, when we got back to the room she said" your not black, i thought i was gonna have a roommate like me, i just assumed you weren't white cause of your hair comments" and i said oh well i hope everythings alright, i'm sure we'll have a great time at school together. within the week we had to make "room rules" for our room and she made these rediiculous rules... like i had to turn off all my stuff if she decided she wanted to pray at anytime during the day, no guests after 7 pm. when i told her i refused to sign this cause it was rediculous she got defensive and said "maybe i need to write respect on the wall for you so you can read it everytime you walk in the door" i remember saying "excuse me, this isn't just your room and we're BOTH going to have to get along and compromise"

A week later i brough 3 girls to my dorm with me after dinner (so it was still relatively early) to just grab a movie and some snacks and so i could change in pajamas before we went to their dorm building. My roommate flipped out, flipped... started pounding her fist telling me she was gonna beat teh shit outta me and obviously i havent learned anything. My friends went down the hall to get the RA well my roommate followed so i closed and locked the door and called my mom. the RA unlocked the door and opened it while this girl was pounding her fists STILL and then began cussing at me telling me she was gonna kick my ass and all this crap. my mom had to drive an hour and a half out there at 11pm at night for my RA to tell me that my roommate was legally allowed to do all that shit to me cause she didn't actually "touch" me. it didn't matter that she was up in my face or the fact that she was pounding her fists. after an hour with me my mom, the girl and the RA arguing and them continuing to say i'm just gonna have to go back to my room and deal with it later my mom called the police. the police came and i had to file a police report for harrassment/threatening. by now it was close to 2am and they made me move all my valuable stuff out of my dorm and go back to my hosue and by sunday i got a new room in a different building. To get the rest of my stuff out of my dorm i had to have a police escort and the girl had to be gone the entire time...

Talk about an awful experience the worst being told over and over that she didn't do anything wrong or illegal. And people wonder why others commit suicide from bullying. Nobody is willing to do anything until physical harm is done... plain awful. I feel for this girl and her families, hopefully some sort of law is enacted after something like this...

[BCherry]

It make me think about a boy I went to school with about 10 years ago that was bullied everyday and I feel so guilty that I didnt do a thing to help. Maybe if I stood up for him he wouldve stayed in school. Cant say much because I was bullied about my weight almost everyday, so maybe nothing wouldve happened. It just feels better when someone stands up for you. I just wonder sometimes if he ever killed himself.. Its so sad that this stuff happens at such a level.

[NinjaTom]

Wow, this really struck a chord with me. Mainly bothered by how people can be so cruel to someone who hasn't done anything wrong. It's messed up.

I don't usually go for afterlife stuff, but I really hope she's found peace.

[mychemicalromance]

i remember reading on the internet about a boy in America, i think he was called Ryan, who killed himself because he was being bullied and someone over the internet told him on msn to kill himself and that he should hang himself. Then his dad found out about all this and started a campaign where he would go around schools and tell Ryan's story.
It would be really hard for him to talk to loads of teenagers about anti-bullying, cyber bullying, suicide and speaking out and stuff but he may have potentailly saved lives.
I read his story on the internet once last year and it touched me.

[mychemicalromance]

i remember reading on the internet about a boy in America, i think he was called Ryan, who killed himself because he was being bullied and someone over the internet told him on msn to kill himself and that he should hang himself. Then his dad found out about all this and started a campaign where he would go around schools and tell Ryan's story.
It would be really hard for him to talk to loads of teenagers about anti-bullying, cyber bullying, suicide and speaking out and stuff but he may have potentailly saved lives.
I read his story on the internet once last year and it touched me.

Storys like that make me think straight edge like. Does anyone know how long they went to prision for? I hope for life. I dont even care if they are sorry. Making someone kill themself is worse than actually killing them i think, but that is just my opinion i guess. But i mean, im from Ireland, and i would LOVE to go to America, but i cant imagine the whole school ganging up on me. It must have been hard, and shes so pretty too. They were probably just jealous of her, but what do i know

[mary1234]

haha this is so stupid, we diagnose people with psychological illnesses that show no physical catalyst give them help and medication and a service that gets them a better quality of life. Its like saying that psychology does not exist in bullying

Why is it we have to get physical to have the police do something, its so cruel to ignore the fact that someone is being manipulated emotionally to hate themselves. Bullying should be assessed on time if there is no physical evidence, it should be strict and better monitored. If this happened at work we will get fired and all the doors would be shut until fix ourselves instead we kiss their ass because they are children doing adult things.

[Inedia]

Oh my goodness I didn't even know stuff like that was possible. I guess I was lucky, I was homeschooled until I was 17 and when I did my one year at school it was fantastic. There were no cliques or bullying in my year, and when we saw it in the lower years we put a stop to it. I love my town :)

[scarlettsupper]

Oh my god this has made me so sad, that poor poor girl. There is genuinely something very very wrong with people in this world.

[Inedia]

Oh my god this has made me so sad, that poor poor girl. There is genuinely something very very wrong with people in this world.

I could not agree more. These people are clearly just the worst. And to post nastiness on her memorial page? That crosses the line on so many levels it's in the 7th dimesion!!:mad:

[justlikethem.]

a boy the year below me killed himself when he was 10/11. he was overlooked by social services because they thought he was okay.

just because he acts normal doesnt mean he is! the hypocrites, they bullied him when he was alive. alienated him. now they mourn him. guilt? or actual sadness. i didnt know him but it broke my heart when i found out. thats why i cant go through with it, because of what the people i actually love will feel. i will have let them down by giving up, by giving in.

phoebe, joshua, and everyone else who died thinking they were alone, in the words of his favourite song and the song i cant listen to without crying,

you are not alone.

and we wont be alone, if we stand together and stand against this.

rest in peace.

[Marialise]

I have to agree with everyone else on here... the situation of bullying is ridiculous!! And I'm so sad that people have to lose their lives over this!!

I haven't experienced it to that degree, but bullying definitely encouraged my ed (and mind you I'm almost 10 years out of school and still trying to kick this crazy, effing disorder!!)

I moved to England when I was in middle school and it was AWFUL!! I was fat, smart, and eager for life and the kids in my new school all knew each other, were even relatives. They were so horrible to me (in addition to pressure from home) that I expressed my pain through ed... and its still not over after all these years. Girls need to GROW UP! Just bc someone is fat or skinny or dumb or smart they're STILL a person!!

My heart goes out to ALL those who are bullied!!!

[RedIce]

I was bullied and sometimes even beaten. It still hurts to remember those days.

[luckypharms]

Hmm. I'm from a very large, very cynical city, and most people would not look twice at something like that.

I was a lower grade school bully (think grade 4) for a couple of years, with a couple of friends of the same age. Funny thing is that out of the five of us, all five have been to therapy at some point, one of the boys in the group killed himself in grade 9, two girls became drug addicts/whores for drugs, and then there's me with an eating disorder.
Bullies aren't these terrible monsters that bully for sick pleasure (there are some psycho/sociopaths out there though) but instead really emotionally hurting kids.