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Family of assaulted Calif. teen who committed suicide planning legal action

The attorney for the family of a California girl who committed suicide after she was sexually battered and then cyberbullied with a humiliating photo plans to file a civil action against the suspects Monday.

 

3 teens arrested for assault after girl's suicide

Eight days after allegedly being sexually battered while passed out at a party, and then humiliated by online photos of the assault, 15-year-old Audrie Pott posted on Facebook that her life was ruined, "worst day ever," and hanged herself....

 

SI teen jumps to her death as horrified classmates look on

A distraught Staten Island teen jumped to her death in front of train today as classmates looked on in horror, The Post has learned. Felicia Garcia, 15, leaped in front of a westbound train as it pulled into the Huguenot station on Huguenot Avenue around 3:15 p.m...

 

Wisconsin boy takes classmates hostage, shoots himself

Wisconsin boy takes classmates hostage, shoots himself

A 15-year-old boy took 23 of his classmates and a teacher hostage in a classroom at a small-town Wisconsin high school on Monday, shooting himself as police broke in.

 

Major acne problem may raise suicide risk, study finds

Major acne problem may raise suicide risk, study finds

People receiving treatment for severe acne may be at higher risk of attempting suicide, but that is probably caused by depression linked to the ...

 

A 'watershed' case in school bullying?

A 'watershed' case in school bullying?

The case of Phoebe Prince seems more cloudy and complicated, much like the insidious national problem that may have helped kill ...

 

Questions for School on Bullying and a Suicide

A dispute has arisen between school officials in South Hadley, Mass., and the district attorney over whether the officials had long known about the hazing of a 15-year-old.

 

Young offender commits suicide at Texas Youth Commission facility

A young man at the Texas Youth Commission’s Crockett State School committed suicide early Monday – the first death at one of the state’s juvenile facilities since before the agency’s 2007 sexual abuse scandal.

 

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