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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.”
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Todd said that the man put the photo
online and sent it to everyone she knew.
Even after moving towns and schools multiple times, the man continued to follow
her online and use her photo, she said. The
photo and the bullying online and in school
drove her to depression, drugs, alcohol,
cutting and a suicide attempt with bleach.
“I can never get that photo back,” she
wrote. “It’s out there forever.”
Teenager Documents Bullying and Abuse
Before Her Death
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 Teens death was not suspicious in
She described being called
names, eating 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 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.
“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.
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.
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.
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