Hope's Suicide

How a cell phone picture led to girl's suicide October 07, 2010

This all started in the spring of 2009 during the last week of school. Friends and family say Hope had "sexted" a picture of her breasts to her boyfriend. Another girl from school, they say, got her hands on the photo and sent it to students at six different schools in the area.

At age 13, Hope Witsell struggled in middle school. Not because her class work at Shields Middle School in Ruskin, Florida, was challenging, but because Hope was being bullied.

She had used her favorite scarves to hang herself from her canopy bed.

This is why I taught my son about the Internet early. I taught him what was right, what was wrong and most importantly he cannot hide anything from me because everything is traced. He isn't allowed to chat, he would rather go to the movie and tv sites I found and watch that than bash someone at school. I know it might happen in the future but I believe in a healthy dose of fear is good for him early.

Now, every kid that said anything bad about her, that can be tracked, should be brought in and put through a really graphic training about suicide and bullying. I hate tweens and parents of tweens that don't teach empathy.