10-year-old commits suicide after alleged bullying incident caught on camera

[HeavyArmz]

AURORA, Colo. -- A mother and father in Colorado say their 10-year-old daughter committed suicide over video of a fight with an alleged bully. Ashawnty Davis, was only in fifth grade.

She was a happy girl until everything changed at the end of October when she was involved in a fight after school, her parents told KDVR.

They say it was her first fight and it was recorded by another student and posted on an app called Musical.ly.

The video shows Ashawnty and another student fighting, while other kids watched. Ashawnty's mother, Latoshia Harris, says her daughter had been confronting the girl who had been bullying her.

"I saw my daughter was scared," she said.

The video is difficult to watch. But Ashawnty's parents are sharing it to help other parents.

"She was devastated when she found out that it had made it to Musical.ly," said her father, Anthony Davis.

"My daughter came home two weeks later and hanged herself in the closet," said Harris.

She was on life support for two weeks after passing away Wednesday.

Her parents say she was the victim of "bullycide." The term is used when someone takes his or her own life because of bullying.

"We have to stop it, and we have to stop it within our kids," said Davis.

"I want other parents to know it's happening," Harris said. "That was my baby, and I love my baby, and I just want mothers to listen."

The school district issued the following statement regarding the incident:

“This is a heartbreaking loss for the school community. Mental health supports will be made available for any students who need help processing the loss.

We do not tolerate bullying of any kind in our schools and we have a comprehensive bullying prevention program in place at all of our schools. The safety and wellbeing of students is our highest priority and we strive every today to ensure schools are safe, welcoming and supportive places that support learning.

We were made aware of that video when a media outlet approached us with it. We took immediate action in response, turning the video over to police and addressing the matter with students.

It should also be noted that the video did not take place during school hours.”

http://fox13now.com/2017/11/30/10-y...r-alleged-bullying-incident-caught-on-camera/

 

[Shadow22]

Woah


R.I.P lil Angel. Prayers up for the family.

 

[playahaitian]

prayers go out to her and her family

school statement WAY to legal ASS COVERING FOR ME.

HEARTBREAKING

 

[playahaitian]

WAIT A MINUTE

IN THE VIDEO THEY SAY THE FIGHT DID HAPPEN ON SCHOOL GROUNDS....

 

[exiledking]

Aw damn I hate that for baby girl. If only she knew it would pass. Hard to know for anybody though, let a lone a child. Ugh

 

[God Dammit]

So fucking sad...
I can’t fathom the pain a parent feels losing a young child.​

 

[Mello Mello]

How do they know how to hang themswlves at that age tho? Of all the ideas to deal with embarrassment why that one at the top of the list.

RIP

 

[TheyCallMeBe]

How do they know how to hang themswlves at that age tho? Of all the ideas to deal with embarrassment why that one at the top of the list.

RIP

I was thinking the same shit. She probably Googled it or watched it on Youtube. Social media made her kill herself and guided her how to do it, too. My daughter is the same age. This breaks my heart. RIP baby girl

 

[smooveface]

This is SUSPECT....I hope the local authorities are looking further into this. I don't believe she hanged herself

 

[gene cisco]

I was thinking the same shit. She probably Googled it or watched it on Youtube. Social media made her kill herself and guided her how to do it, too. My daughter is the same age. This breaks my heart. RIP baby girl

Crazy how it works these days. It's harder than ever to be a parent these days. Our kids will have access to social media even if we try to control it at home. Best to just talk to them about these things as openly as possible.

 

[kefta]

Damn!!!

 

[Autobot8655]

strange that they don't mention the schools name in the article but I found it

Sunrise Elementary School in Aurora....cherry creek 5 school district

As always with these bullying incidents of our children, I attempted to look up the demographics.

https://www.greatschools.org/colora...ool/#Low-income_students*Test_scores*Overview

43% are pink

27% are Hispanic

It's odd that other demographic information is missing (black, Asian, other etc.).

My bet is that this child was bullied by a pink or Hispanic child.

Can someone find the video?

What you all have to realize is that racial terrorism is starting to be placed in the same category as bullying...when racial terrorism deserves its own category.

 

[Mixd]

RIP to the little angel lost.

But what gets to me is this generation, now they will coin the word suicide by being bullied to bullycide?

Smfh

 

[exiledking]

strange that they don't mention the schools name in the article but I found it

Sunrise Elementary School in Aurora....cherry creek 5 school district

As always with these bullying incidents of our children, I attempted to look up the demographics.

https://www.greatschools.org/colora...ool/#Low-income_students*Test_scores*Overview

43% are pink

27% are Hispanic

It's odd that other demographic information is missing (black, Asian, other etc.).

My bet is that this child was bullied by a pink or Hispanic child.

Can someone find the video?

What you all have to realize is that racial terrorism is starting to be placed in the same category as bullying...when racial terrorism deserves its own category.

It really doesn’t matter WHO a 10 year old was bullied by. We know this happens any and peverywhere and it’s not cool for any reason.

Btw, next time instead of all that fancy sleuth work, just watch the video POSTED.

It shows her fighting another Black girl. That makes her no less affected, as you can see from the outcome.

 

[Database Error]

My

 

[DJCandle]

Hurt people, hurt people, and the cycle continues.

Rip baby girl.

 

[Mack1052]

Wow. Totally speechless

 

[TimRock]

Kids in elementary school can bring phones to school? This is disgusting.

 

[4 Dimensional]

How do they know how to hang themswlves at that age tho? Of all the ideas to deal with embarrassment why that one at the top of the list.

RIP

Man, it's so easy for a child to run across media that talks about suicide. Easier than what most parents want to believe.

 

[Autobot8655]

It really doesn’t matter WHO a 10 year old was bullied by. We know this happens any and peverywhere and it’s not cool for any reason.

Btw, next time instead of all that fancy sleuth work, just watch the video POSTED.

It shows her fighting another Black girl. That makes her no less affected, as you can see from the outcome.

Man, shutup

Every one cant just "watch videos" dumb ass. I read the article.

If it was black child then I erred.

 

[Shadow22]

How do they know how to hang themswlves at that age tho? Of all the ideas to deal with embarrassment why that one at the top of the list.

RIP

I was thinking the same shit. She probably Googled it or watched it on Youtube. Social media made her kill herself and guided her how to do it, too. My daughter is the same age. This breaks my heart. RIP baby girl

Either those or classmates talk. Its scary what kids talk about these days at such young ages.

 

[Dr. Truth]

strange that they don't mention the schools name in the article but I found it

Sunrise Elementary School in Aurora....cherry creek 5 school district

As always with these bullying incidents of our children, I attempted to look up the demographics.

https://www.greatschools.org/colora...ool/#Low-income_students*Test_scores*Overview

43% are pink

27% are Hispanic

It's odd that other demographic information is missing (black, Asian, other etc.).

My bet is that this child was bullied by a pink or Hispanic child.

Can someone find the video?

What you all have to realize is that racial terrorism is starting to be placed in the same category as bullying...when racial terrorism deserves its own category.

The girl is black.

 

[Cross]

This is terrible im speechless it seems that suicide is these kids coping mechanism nowadays this lil angel had her whole life ahead of her but felt she needed to end it parents please talk to your kids cant imagine she didnt communicate her feelings with her parents before making such a final decision my heart breaks for her parents

 

[xcluesiv]

heart goes out to her family

 

[exiledking]

Man, shutup

Every one cant just "watch videos" dumb ass. I read the article.

If it was black child then I erred.

Lol no I think it's you tho needs to shut up

I advocate reading but when you got digging into all that "research" and didn't even watch the damn video that went with it just so you can dig into some stupid ass conspiracy, you sound dumb as fuck.

"Everyone can't just watch videos" - YOU CAN. If you can READ, You would see that they posted a video of the fight, which caused her to take her own life. READ THAT. Stupid

And now that you KNOW you "erred" you can hopefully see how stupid it is to compare someone motive for being an asshole. Would she be any less hurt if they bullied her on the basis of race? NO.

Focus dumbass

 

[Deezz]

How do they know how to hang themswlves at that age tho? Of all the ideas to deal with embarrassment why that one at the top of the list.

RIP

Same thing I was thinking. Almost seems like she accidentally hung herself and they are trying to make that connection.

 

[Autobot8655]

Lol no I think it's you tho needs to shut up

I advocate reading but when you got digging into all that "research" and didn't even watch the damn video that went with it just so you can dig into some stupid ass conspiracy, you sound dumb as fuck.

"Everyone can't just watch videos" - YOU CAN. If you can READ, You would see that they posted a video of the fight, which caused her to take her own life. READ THAT. Stupid

And now that you KNOW you "erred" you can hopefully see how stupid it is to compare someone motive for being an asshole. Would she be any less hurt if they bullied her on the basis of race? NO.

Focus dumbass

Dumb ass ....everyone cant watch videos.

Didn't I just say that?

Anyway...you have been saying some suspicious shit lately.

Go to the hand verification thread.

 

[exiledking]

Dumb ass ....everyone cant watch videos.

Didn't I just say that?

Anyway...you have been saying some suspicious shit lately.

Go to the hand verification thread.

You can't watch a video but you got time to run a dumbass fake investigation.

You've already verified that that you're an idiot right here in this thread

 

[peterlongshort]

That's why I be wanting to punch folk sharing fight videos of high school kids. They are part of the problem.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

Kids in elementary school can bring phones to school? This is disgusting.

I don’t know how it is on that high perch of yours, but in my below sea level community parents have to work.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

How do they know how to hang themswlves at that age tho? Of all the ideas to deal with embarrassment why that one at the top of the list.

RIP

What an odd post.

 

[TimRock]

I don’t know how it is on that high perch of yours, but in my below sea level community parents have to work.

And? This is elementary school. Why would a child need to have their phone on and using it during school hours? If the parent needs to contact the child, they call the school. Remember, like they used to do before cell phones.

 

[exiledking]

Can someone find the video?

Dumb ass ....everyone cant watch videos.

Didn't I just say that?
.

Yeah ya did say that. But ya started with "can someone find the video?"

Well its right there in the OP. RIGHT THERE. Just click the link and hit play.

but nooooooowoooo, you went and searched the damn demographics of the school


Then all of a sudden "everyone can't WATCH the video"



on a serious note, just stop. This shit ain't about you or me, Its about the young girl. It's sad

 

[exiledking]

What an odd post.

I thought so too.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

And? This is elementary school. Why would a child need to have their phone on and using it during school hours? If the parent needs to contact the child, they call the school. Remember, like they used to do before cell phones.

A child has the phone to connect them to their parents. The child always wouldn’t use their toy at play time.