A 16-year-old Florida girl took her own life last summer after she was “ruthlessly” bullied and attacked by three friends and hockey teammates over one’s ex-boyfriend.
McKenna Brown’s grieving mother said that her teen daughter had asked her friends if she could talk to the ex-boyfriend of one of them and she was told that it was OK.
“She then realized a few days later that it wasn’t okay with a friend based on how she retaliated,” McKenna’s mom Cheryl said.
Even after McKenna apologized to the friend for “crossing the line”, the girls kept sending her heinous messages, asked her other friends to “cancel” her on social media and even divulged personal information they knew about her.
Cheryl said that her daughter took her own life shortly later and left a suicide note about “lacking belongness.”
“I thought she was sleeping. I went over to her and went to turn her over and she was cold and stiff and I knew that she was gone,” Cheryl recalled.
“How do you do that to somebody? [the bully] had mentioned to one of her friends: ‘She had got what she deserved.’”
The bullies, who were McKenna’s hockey teammates, have since been suspended as an investigation into the cyberbullying allegations continues.
