Alleged Maryville rape victim Daisy Coleman attempts suicide, her mother says

Jan 7, 2014 - 11:44
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Alleged Maryville rape victim Daisy Coleman attempts suicide, her mother says
Marysville rape victim Daisy Coleman is in hospital after allegedly trying to kill herself.

A teen who was at the center of a rape case which made inteational headlines has been admitted to hospital after attempting to take her own life, her mother says.

Daisy Coleman claimed two high school students had raped her when she was 14 years old.

Her family said prosecutors dismissed Daisy's claims and the family became the subject of harassment in Maryville, Missouri, where they lived at the time.

Daisy's mother Melinda Coleman told FOX 4 that her daughter tried to commit suicide on Sunday evening.

Mrs Coleman said Daisy had been to a party on Friday night and was the target of social media attacks afterwards.

She said her daughter was in a stable condition at a children’s psychiatric hospital in Kansas City.

Mrs Coleman said two of her daughter's former friends wrote nasty messages to her on Facebook page after she attended the party.

"I had let her go to a party with a friend, she was there for an hour and a half. Then she came home and saw Facebook. (One girl) decided to write something saying "you're a fake and a phoney," "you wanted it" and "you're a sl*t" because she went to the party," Mrs Coleman told the Daily Mail.

Mrs Coleman said she attacked the pair online, saying she "couldn't believe these girls were writing such horrible things to my daughter and defending it."

"She has been through so much and she has done so little. All the other kids are out partying and doing all this stuff and she isn't, she's at home with me all the time," she said. "The second they see her at a party for five minutes drinking a Redbull it's all over Facebook and they're tearing her to smithereens."

Mrs Coleman said Daisy walked into her brother's room on Sunday night saying she was seeing ghosts and was "acting strangely."

Her family made Daisy vomit and once at hospital doctors pumped her stomach. It is unclear if she will suffer any long term damage.

"She's not coherent, she makes no sense, she's like a two year old," Mrs Coleman said. "I asked the nurse if she thought she would get better and she said there was no way of telling."

Daisy was the subject of abuse after reporting that she had been raped by one older football player.

She told police the 17-year-old boy, Matthew Baett, invited her to a party where she became so drunk that she couldn't stand and that he had sex with her while his friend filmed the incident on an iPhone.

All charges against Baett, now 19, were dropped in connection with the alleged rape last January. But in October special prosecutor Jean Baker was assigned to re-investigate the case.

Mrs Coleman said she fears Ms Baker's report will find nothing because the alleged video has been deleted.

She has called on cyber "hacktivist" group Anonymous, which supported the teen's case when it first happened, to try and find the video and not to abandon the case.

 

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