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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.

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[-] ChexMax@lemmy.world 234 points 2 months ago

"It [the bullying] had gotten so aggressive, Carranza was meeting with a school counselor multiple times a week. Her family, however, was never notified."

What the literal fuck. The bullies said the bullying wouldn't ease up until her family got deported. She was meeting with the school counselor several times a week and the school didn't separate the bullies out? They didn't notify the parents? I hope people are held personally liable. Your beloved little girl taking her own life is an unimaginable tragedy.

The president is setting such a shameful example.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 85 points 2 months ago

That’s what hit me the hardest too. This was completely preventable. The lack of response by the school is even more to blame than the bullies. The knot in my stomach wants to deck that school counselor.

[-] ChexMax@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago

I agree that the adults here are the most responsible, but I hope those kids understand the gravity of what they've done.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They may not at 11 years old, but this is the sort of thing that sticks with you. We can only hope this teaches them empathy rather than fueling more of this sociopathic behavior they’re likely emulating from their parents.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

I hope that the family of Jocelyn files numerous wrongful death lawsuits. The school failed. the bullies and their parents failed.

It's probably exactly zero consolation, but damn.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 14 points 2 months ago

I hope it haunts them deep in their core for the rest of their lives and they live deep in moral debt in a futile attempt to break-even but simultaneously knowing they never will.

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[-] Seleni@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

Even in my time the person who reported the bullying was treated worse than the bullies, and I’ve been out of school for a while. From what I’ve heard, it’s been getting much worse.

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 32 points 2 months ago

Seriously, the only way to defend yourself against bullying is to beat the crap out of the bully. And you will get repercussions for it, but the bully will think twice next time.

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Nobody will be held liable. It will be spun as a horrible tragedy and the school will move on.

[-] Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 months ago

Yet they pass these laws forcing teachers to rat on trans kids. Bet if this poor kid went by Carlos instead of Carranza they would have called right away!

These motherfuckers.

[-] ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

He's setting a shameful example while feeling shameless, that's the part that boggles my mind... like the one day he signed more of his 'executive orders', upsetting who knows how many people's lives again, then hopped away afterwards to go golfing.

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[-] almost1337@lemm.ee 126 points 2 months ago

At 11? Christ, that is devastating.

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[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 94 points 2 months ago

And I'm sure that MAGA scum are cheering about it.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

MAGA are all about keeping the children unsafe.

There’s no greater threat to a child than a Trump supporter.

[-] amon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes but God loves fetuses!

/s

[-] Dungrad@feddit.org 78 points 2 months ago

The US regime believes in notifying parents, irrespective of the possible harm, if their child might be gay or trans but won't bother with bullying so severe it leads to suicide. The US is fucked.

[-] kava@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago

I grew up illegal in the US. I was brought on a travel visa at the age of 5 and it wasn't until my mid 20s that I became a citizen.

I vividly remember being in elementary school, around her age, in music class where we were learning the national anthem. The entire class would stand up and we should sing "I'm proud to be an American" and I remember silently crying as I stood up and sang the song.

I cried because I understood even at that age that I was not an American. I was part of everything while simultaneously always being detached from everything. Never fitting in, but pretending to. I think long-term it created a strange sense of detachment from society. This shit fucks you up and it's heavy stuff for a child to process. It wasn't until my adulthood that I really started to understand and internalize a positive narrative from my upbringing. An 11 year old child does not have the capacity to process this.

And I'm in my 30s now- I grew up illegal before social media and before this xenophobic outburst started circa 2016. I'd imagine it's so much worse today.

I feel for this little girl. I feel for all the children in the country who's only crime was existing. Obama, while famously being the deporter-in-chief (both Obama terms aw more deported than Trump's first term), at least did offer DACA as an executive order for these children.

Really, I think you can tell the state of a society by how they treat the vulnerable. And the US is getting increasingly brutal and cruel. We're in for a wild fascist ride, comrades. It's only just begun.

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months ago

"failed".

What are the chances they just ignored it, intentionally?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

I'm willing to bet that's exactly what happened. Dollars to doughnuts these were MAGA bullies at a MAGA school with MAGA teachers/"leadership" and the adults either tacitly endorsed the bullying or participated in it themselves. They're probably glad that she's dead and (privately, if not publicly) laughing about it because it's one less "illegal [pejorative]" polluting their white community. I genuinely think we're at that level of near-genocidal dehumanization at this point.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Exactly. And it is Texas we’re talking about here.

[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago

The school never bothered to tell the parents their kid was being bullied.

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 41 points 2 months ago

Oh but being Texas they sure as F would've told her parents if she was expressing gender dysphoria right? Ye gods what a dumpster fire of a society.

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[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 39 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately, that's mission accomplished for team red, as that's one fewer brown person growing up to take yer jerbs.

This was not a suicide. The Trump regime and her classmates murdered her.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

God damn , I hope these good Christians will burn in hell.

[-] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

I'm athiest but deep down hope there is a hell. Just to see all those "christians" down there.

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

They're celebrating. This is what they want. They want all Hispanic people gone. They never cared about immigration or legal status, they hate Hispanics and they want them all gone, and children are the Hispanics they hate the most. I don't know if you've ever really listened to their rhetoric, but ''I drove by a school and all the kids were Mexicans'' is a BIG taking point on the right and has been for decades. They want out kids gone by any means.

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[-] rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 months ago

This is utterly heartbreaking. Only 11 years old.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Jesus FUCK.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

The bullies are modern day Hitlerjugend

[-] CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Rage. This is so incredibly tragic. I'm sitting here at 6:45 AM just crying when I should be getting ready for work. This is the type of world they're trying to build.

[-] pigup@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

This is the type of world that is already and needs to be dismantled.

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[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Disgusting. Fuck those hateful bullies and the parents who taught them.

[-] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

There's going to be so much blood on Rump roasts hands... I don't know how he can look himself in the mirror. That's okay. Karma's a bitch. The next go around won't be so easy for them, I'm sure.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 2 months ago

Karma isn’t real, don’t count on it handling anything.

[-] dmtalon@infosec.pub 17 points 2 months ago

Straight up heartbreaking...

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Welcome to the new america, I guess.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Kids are awful.

Adults are awful.

People are awful.

[-] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Cruelty like this is a learned trait, too. These kids didn't come up with this on their own, they learned the hatred at home.

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[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

omg that is just heart wrenching. Poor little girl….I am so sorry for you and your family. <3

[-] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is a tragedy. And everybody knows the US is a rogue state now. I'm more interested in reading about solutions, then further emotionalizing the debate. This isn't helping anymore, it just makes ad money and attacks peoples mental health. Everyone already picked a side, so what do you want to do next?

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

This is terrible. It's sad, so sad. The USA is complicit for the deaths of the Gazan kids by Netanyahu already, and now this. This is how decadent hegemonies look like.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

I know everyone here is going to be talking about Trump but there's also the complete negligence of the school to talk about too. Bullying happens every day and it causes suicides all the time. Schools decide to take the easy path of ignoring it or blaming the victim every day too. Until there's accountability for the staff and bullies this problem will keep taking the lives of children and we will keep raising kids who see violence as a legitimate means to get ahead.

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[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Those kids should be forced to hear her name every morning they wake up for the rest of their lives.

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[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

May the bullies live to very very old age, haunted and ashamed by their crime, and always remembering with profound anguish this smiling face and these sparkling eyes that they extinguished.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

haunted and ashamed by their crime

If only they had the capacity for that. :-/

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