[Vedderman]

This high school girl had been getting into trouble lately. Aside from 'acting up' in class, she would often play hooky and skip school altogether in order to smoke weed with her friends down at the river. Her mother had allegedly tried various methods to get her straight, but nothing seemed to work.

So last week, she grounded the girl and disallowed her from going to school, since she knew she would just sneak away and smoke pot and drink beer with her friends anyway. So when she (the mother) had to go to work in the morning, she locked the teenager in the house and took the key, leaving the girl a phone to call if there was an emergency.

Unfortunately, when the mother returned home later in the afternoon, her daughter was hanging from the rafters by a scarf (the final photo is of the scarf itself). The mother called the police immediately, but when paramedics arrived, they said the girl was already dead. Time of death was established between 60 and 90 minutes before the mother returned.

Not sure the mother's to blame. Locking the kid in the house while she goes to work may seem a bit harsh, but I guess she was at the end of her rope. And...now her daughter is too. *badum-ching*

[Morbid75]

Great story. This was the only way to get away and get back at her parents. It is a shame adolescents can't see beyond the way they are feeling in the moment. She probably would have turned out okay after her rebellious phase.

[Keydog]

oh well, mommy won't have to worry anymore

[chewbacca]

Seems like a really pointless reason to kill yourself.

[Vedderman]

Originally Posted by chewbacca ↗

Seems like a really pointless reason to kill yourself.

It's rarely just one reason.

[sancatz22]

[SirX70]

The second pic down has a creepy peeping-tom vibe.

[Vedderman]

Originally Posted by SirX70 ↗

The second pic down has a creepy peeping-tom vibe.

I usually get my photos from several different sources in sets like this. In this instance, the first, second and final photos are from a rojas journalist while the 3rd and 4th are from one of the EMTs who showed up at the scene. Sometimes photos come from family members and (more often) bystanders, as well. Dead people cause a pretty big stir, so there are usually crowds nearby and most of them these days have cameras or cell phones.

The reporters and rojas photogs often arrive concurrent with or prior to the law enforcement, because the family or bystanders call them first, as they pay well for the pics for their papers. :) Of course, the law enforcement often call the reporters themselves. They can always use money too, heh.

Images like this would never be published in an American newspaper, obviously. They'd be considered too disturbing to the public or too humiliating/embarrassing for the family. Our reporters TAKE photos like this all the time. They just never get published. Americans like their graphic violence and dead people in films and tv, but seeing it for real freaks them out.

[vagabond]

Ah, the bathos and drama of the teen years- not for a million bucks would I ever want to relive them, ugh. Thanks for another excellent post, V-man.

[-NocturnalPulse-]

I'm willing to bet she didn't kill herself just because her mom locked her up. She might have been self medicating with the booze and pot.