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10-Year-Old Girl Commits Suicide After Classmates Videotaped Them Bullying Her and Posted it Online

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It’s unfathomable to think a child – especially a happy child – as young as 10 years old would ever try and take their own life. But with the advent of social media, tragic stories like what happened to sweet Ashawnty Davis are becoming all too commonplace.

Ashawnty was, according to her parents,”a child of joy and she brought joy to everyone.” That all changed back in October, when a group of students began bullying her. The fifth-grader at Sunrise Elementary in Aurora, Colorado, became a shell of her former self once she was targeted. The confrontations escalated to the point of a physical fight, in which Ashawnty felt the need to defend herself.

Screenshot of the fight video

In a truly despicable video, classmates – and what appears to be an older student or possibly even an adult – enter the frame, clearly allowing the fight to take place, and possibly even encouraging it. There are several popular sites that feature fights, and everyone around seems more interested in a viral video rather than the actual humans in peril directly in front of them.

Video of the fight was later posted on an app called Musical.ly, according to her father, Anthony. Her mother, Latoshia Harris, said Ashawnty was “devastated” when she discovered the video was uploaded online, and in just a few short days, Ashawnty went into the closet and attempted to hang herself. After two weeks on life support at Children’s Hospital in Colorado, she passed away.

They’re referring to her death as a “Bullycide,” which describes someone who has taken their own life as a result of intense bullying. Her parents are now on a mission to do what they can to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else. Here’s what they said to local news outlet KDVR:

“We have to stop it and we have to stop it within our kids,” her dad said.

“I want other parents to know that it’s happening. That was my baby and I love my baby and I just want mothers to listen.”

Pray for this family as they grieve the loss of their child, and that their efforts from here forward help save kids before they make a similar choice.

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Dan Andros is the Managing Editor for CBN News and hosts the Quick Start Podcast (7 am M-F) and the weekly show Faith vs. Culture on the CBN News Channel. He also created the documentary Six Days in Iraq and previously was Head Writer for The Glenn Beck Program on Fox News and TheBlaze TV.