10 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide After Bullying

Ashlynn Conner

Bullying Leads 10 Year Old Ashlynn Conner to Suicide

If your heart breaks easily, you may not want to watch this interview.

10 year-old Ashlynn Conner's mom says that she committed suicide after she was bullied for years.

Conner's classmates bullied her for two years, including taunting her for getting her hair cut and calling her "pretty boy." She grew her hair back but the teasing continued.

On November 10, she told her mom that classmates called her "fat", "ugly," and "a slut."

Her mom, Stacy Conner, explained, "She's like, ‘I don't even know what that is.' "

Sadly, the next day her daughter hung herself in her bedroom closet with a scarf.

Tragic.

It's unbelievable that school bullying has become such an epidemic and that a child at just 10 years old could contemplate suicide. How does a 10 year-old kid even KNOW what sucicide is -- much less contemplate it and actually do it?

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Conner's mother said she tried to give her daughter "advice and guidance as to how I thought she should be able to handle bullying" and spoke to the principal about the bullying issue.

"She never talked about killing herself or hurting herself," her mom added.

She told her mother she wanted to be homeschooled, but her mom said they couldn't do it, promising to talk to school officials after the weekend. Unfortunately, she never got the chance.

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Ashlynn's aunt, Kim Wright noted the school policy for bullying: "The first thing is the child is to tell the kids ‘no'; the second one is they are to walk away, and the third one is to tell the teacher. Ashlynn did all three of those things."

How can you help your child if he or she is being bullied? Psychiatrist Dr. Gail Saltz said, "If your child is extremely upset, it's OK to ask them if they have any thought about killing themselves."

She added, "You need to get them immediate help, immediate evaluation, because children, unlike adults, can look depressed one moment and happy and OK the next. So it's hard to detect when they are actually depressed. They can be impulsive and act on something too soon."

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Ashlynn Conner

Bullying Leads 10 Year Old Ashlynn Conner to Suicide

If your heart breaks easily, you may not want to watch this interview.

10 year-old Ashlynn Conner's mom says that she committed suicide after she was bullied for years.

Conner's classmates bullied her for two years, including taunting her for getting her hair cut and calling her "pretty boy." She grew her hair back but the teasing continued.

On November 10, she told her mom that classmates called her "fat", "ugly," and "a slut."

Her mom, Stacy Conner, explained, "She's like, ‘I don't even know what that is.' "

Sadly, the next day her daughter hung herself in her bedroom closet with a scarf.

Tragic.

It's unbelievable that school bullying has become such an epidemic and that a child at just 10 years old could contemplate suicide. How does a 10 year-old kid even KNOW what sucicide is -- much less contemplate it and actually do it?

Read: Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way Foundation' Empowers Youth

Conner's mother said she tried to give her daughter "advice and guidance as to how I thought she should be able to handle bullying" and spoke to the principal about the bullying issue.

"She never talked about killing herself or hurting herself," her mom added.

She told her mother she wanted to be homeschooled, but her mom said they couldn't do it, promising to talk to school officials after the weekend. Unfortunately, she never got the chance.

Read: Demi Lovato Was Bullied

Ashlynn's aunt, Kim Wright noted the school policy for bullying: "The first thing is the child is to tell the kids ‘no'; the second one is they are to walk away, and the third one is to tell the teacher. Ashlynn did all three of those things."

How can you help your child if he or she is being bullied? Psychiatrist Dr. Gail Saltz said, "If your child is extremely upset, it's OK to ask them if they have any thought about killing themselves."

She added, "You need to get them immediate help, immediate evaluation, because children, unlike adults, can look depressed one moment and happy and OK the next. So it's hard to detect when they are actually depressed. They can be impulsive and act on something too soon."

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