Suicide

Affair with teacher may have driven 17-year-old to attempt suicide
Sex Offenders
June 29, 2017

Affair with teacher may have driven 17-year-old to attempt suicide

A health teacher in Maine is under investigation after a 17-year-old student admitted to having a sexual affair with the married 29-year-old woman that is believed to have been behind a suicide attempt. According to the New York Daily News, Jill Montagne has been placed on leave from Kennebunk High School and is banned from contacting …

Netflix show ’13 Reasons Why’ blamed for TWO more suicides
Suicide
June 27, 2017

Netflix show ’13 Reasons Why’ blamed for TWO more suicides

Two California families have blamed their teen daughters’ suicides on the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why. Bella Herndon (pictured left) and Priscilla Chiu (pictured right), both 15, reportedly died by suicide in April. The teens didn’t know each other, but they had one thing in common: they watched the controversial Netflix show days before taking their …

School bullies tell 13-year-old boy to kill himself in yearbook messages
child endangerment
June 24, 2017

School bullies tell 13-year-old boy to kill himself in yearbook messages

A mother is raising awareness about the devastating impact of bullying after her 13-year-old son decided to take his own life. The Washington state mother, who found her son before it was too late, told KCPQ that classmates of the boy relentlessly bullied him in school. The student, who has not been identified, would try to …

‘She hung herself’: Bullied teen’s obituary brutally honest about suicide
Bullies
June 23, 2017

‘She hung herself’: Bullied teen’s obituary brutally honest about suicide

The family of a Bedford, Pennsylvania, girl has been brutally honest about the bullying that led to the suicide of 15-year-old Sadie Riggs. Sadie Riggs lived all of her short life in Bedford, a small rural town of about 3,000 people about 100 miles outside of Pittsburgh, PA. She would have turned 16 in December, …

Three 12-year-old girls die in suicide pact as community fears dozens more deaths
Suicide
June 23, 2017

Three 12-year-old girls die in suicide pact as community fears dozens more deaths

A third twelve-year-old girl died this week, reportedly as part of a suicide pact that already took the lives of two preteen girls so far this year. According to CBC, Jenera Roundsky, 12, was pronounced dead last week after another child found her at a hockey rink in remote northern Ontario, Canada. In January, Jolynn Winter …

Divorcing dad kills two young children before hanging himself during Father’s Day visit
Family Crime
June 20, 2017

Divorcing dad kills two young children before hanging himself during Father’s Day visit

A California father is the prime suspect in a tragic murder-suicide on Father’s Day weekend that took the lives of two young children. According to ABC 7, authorities found Alvaro Camara, 40; his six-year-old daughter; and his 18-month-old son dead in Camara’s Santa Rosa home on Monday morning. Camara reportedly hung himself, and the children’s cause …