11-Year-Old Texas Girl Bullied Over Family's Immigration Status Takes Her Own Life
www.latintimes.com
A sixth grade girl took her life after classmates bullied her over her family's immigration status and threatened to contact ICE to deport her parents.

Summary

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, an 11-year-old girl from Gainesville, Texas, died by suicide after enduring months of bullying over her family’s immigration status.

Classmates allegedly mocked her and threatened to report her family to ICE. The school was aware of the bullying but failed to notify Carranza’s family.

Her mother, Marbella Carranza, only learned of the harassment after her daughter’s death and is now working with investigators and the school to understand what happened and why she was not notified.

  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    997·
    4 days ago

    Yeah I’m kinda speechless. It doesn’t bear thinking about but I kinda wonder how aware she was of the consequences of what she was doing.

      • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        615·
        4 days ago

        Sorry I don’t really understand what’s so dumb about this question.

        If she actually intended suicide (which we don’t know), then to what extent did she understand the permanence of death in the context of the transience of feelings.

        • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
          61·
          3 days ago

          What you’re failing to understand is that you’re being an insufferable twat. Do you ask this about adults, too? There are very few people pushed to suicide who consider how transient feelings are, and that’s hardly the point here. You don’t have to face tragedy with obnoxiousness.

    • Kalysta@lemm.ee
      71·
      3 days ago

      I promise you, at 11 you know what death is. And it’s the ADULTS responsibility to protect you anyway. Why are you blaming the victim?

      • techt@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        How can you promise that? I’ll admit I didn’t fully understand it then, I didn’t have any deaths in my close family until much later, so I never had to reconcile with it.

    • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Oh you’re asking if she could relatively conceive of what life would be like without her in it, especially to her family and friends. If she had that level of mindfulness and could pre-meditate the consequences.

      I mean, she was 11. And even fully grown adults can barely know what the consequences of their actions will be, so I doubt this was ever something considered.

      It was probably a combination of short-term pain felt by herself and shame felt towards her family that led to the breaking point. Makes me dissociate just thinking about this story

      • Kalysta@lemm.ee
        5·
        3 days ago

        What the OP doesn’t realize is that if one is at the point of suicide, the loss to their family and friends doesn’t even cross their minds no matter the age.

        All they can think of is ending the pain. Doesn’t matter if you’re 11 or 30.

        The comment is stupid and clearly OP has never spoken with a suicidal person before. All they’re doing is victim blaming.

        • Reyali@lemm.ee
          5·
          3 days ago

          Alternatively, they do think of their loved ones but through the lens of, “their lives would be better without me.”

          I can’t help but wonder if her bullies may have made this poor girl think she might be responsible if her parents faced repercussions from immigration policies. Regardless, it’s a tragedy that a life was lost so young and it’s inconceivable that the school took no action that may have prevented it.