Nina Is Killed For Bullying

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Before Rosalie Ávila, 13, hanged herself in her Yucaipa, CA room, last month, she left a suicide letter for her family to read when their body was found.

In one of these notes, his last words of agony were dedicated to his parents: “I'm sorry, Mom and Dad. I love you… Mommy, I'm sorry you have to find me like this.”

Rosalie's parents also assured that the police already have in their custody a newspaper in which the little girl described the abuse of which she was a victim by her peers. "Today they told me it was ugly … they were making fun of my teeth," reads one of the passages, as revealed by Freddie Ávila, father of the minor.

Rosalie's family found her unconscious on November 28, 2016, at a time her father says he will never forget.

“He was listening to music and his door was locked. I knew something was wrong because she was not responding,”Avila told People magazine about the moments after he and Rosalie's brothers returned home. “My son ended up damaging the lock to get in and everyone came in and yelled. I ran to the room and my daughter was hanging on a rope. They were all hysterical."

Avila says he gave Rosalie CPR what seemed like a "life": "He was screaming, 'Come on, Rose, I love you. Please' ".

Rosalie was declared brain dead on December 1 and was removed from life support three days later. According to the family, Rosalie's suicide attempt came about because she was teased at school. Avila says officials from the Yucaipa-Calimesa school district did nothing to protect the teenager.

"She said, 'They're calling me a bitch. They tell me that I have herpes and other bad things,”Ávila told People. They teased her teeth, all about her. And she left a bunch of notes, they called her 'ugly' and said that she looked in the mirror saying 'ugly'. Everything they told her, she believed it."

The family now plans to file a wrongful-death lawsuit against the school district for its "negligence and lack of appropriate measures to safeguard Rosalie as a victim of bullying and ensure her safety."

"The school was also negligent in failing to take action against the bullies and allowing them to continue their unrelenting verbal abuse against Rosalie knowing the fragile condition she was in," family attorney Brian Claypool said in a statement.

"In addition to verbal abuse, classmates circulated a video portraying how she was an ugly girl and what she was like a pretty girl and used a photo of Rosalie to portray the ugly girl," said Claypool. “The video was distributed throughout the school and online, going viral. In her suicide note, Rosalie apologized to her parents for being ugly."