A 13-year-old girl threw herself off an
overpass just days after a shaming video was posted online by her father.
Isabel Laxamana,
from Tacoma, Washington, US, died in hospital on Friday May 29.
King County Medical
Examiners’ office ruled the death as suicide.
Days before, a 15-second
video emerged online of Isabel standing in a room with some of her hair on the
floor.
Her father says: ‘The
consequences of getting messed up, man, you lost all that beautiful hair, was
it worth it?’
‘No,’
she responds quietly.
‘How many times did I warn
you?’ he asks.
‘A lot,’ she replies.
It has been widely
reported that the video was uploaded to YouTube by her dad as a way of shaming
her for her actions, which are unknown.
A Facebook page has
now been launched called ‘Justice for Isabel’. The description explains it
wants to raise awareness of ‘parent shaming’.
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