Go kill yourself’: Social media messages encourage Indigenous youth to commit suicide – CBC
Feb 03, 2017
WARNING: This story contains graphic content
A grief-stricken mother from a northern Ontario First Nation is sharing the hate-filled social media messages her 12-year-old daughter received on the day of her death by suicide, in hopes of saving the lives of other girls in her community.
“If I’d seen those earlier, if she showed them to me, I think I could have done something, tried to talk to her, not to believe those words,” Sandra Fox told CBC News.
Fox’s daughter, Chantel, died by suicide early in January in Wapekeka First Nation, a few days after her friend, Jolynn Winter, also 12, died by suicide. Several other girls from the community, about 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, Ont., remain on suicide watch and at least one of them has also received messages encouraging her to kill herself.
Read More: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/social-media-suicide-1.3963322
