ABUSE MAGAZINE
Teenager Documents Bullying and Abuse
Before Her Death
“After I got home, all I saw was on Facebook--’She deserved it. Did you wash the
mud out of your hair? I hope she’s dead,’”
she wrote.
Authorities have not officially called the
death a suicide, but Cpl. Jamie Chung of
the Coquitlam Royal Canadian Mounted
Police said in a statement earlier this week,
“At this time it has been determined that
the teen’s death was not suspicious in
nature and that foul play was not a factor.”
The nearly nine-minute, black and white
video showed Todd silently telling her story
through a series of white cards with black
marker writing on them. She can only be
seen from her nose down for most of the
video, occasionally moving around so that
her face is visible.
“Hello, I’ve decided to tell you about my
never ending story,” the video begins.
She described the events leading up to
the photo of her chest and how she felt
after the photo was posted online.
“I then got really sick and got anxiety,
major depression and panic disorders,” she
wrote. “I then moved and got into drugs
and alcohol.”
She described being called names, eating
Todd said in her video that she did not
want to press charges against the girl who
beat her up because she wanted to move on
when she moved to another city and school.
She moved to another school in another
city, but said the torture followed her
through Facebook. Students posted photos
of ditches and suggested she try another
bleach.
Photo Source: hvparent.com
lunch alone and resorting to cutting herself.
She also told the story of an incident where
she made a “huge mistake” and “hooked
up” with a boy at her school who had a
girlfriend, but who she believed really liked
her, which led to being beaten up at school.
Todd was in the tenth grade at the
Coquitlam Alternate Basic Education School
when she died. School officials would not
release the name of her previous school.
Todd said she “wanted to die so bad”
when her dad found her in a ditch. She
drank bleach when she went home and had
to be rushed to the hospital to have her
stomach pumped, she said.
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workplace. We are proud to help Insure
a bright future for our youth!”
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