'I could have lost my life, too,' says driver hit by 'shamed' girl who jumped ... - Washington Post
More than a week after the accident, after seeing the tiny girl plummet from the highway overpass, after feeling the girl land on the roof of her car with a sickening thud and a shattering of glass, Chelci Frutos still cannot forget the girl’s hair. “I saw a long black ponytail as she was falling,” Frutos told The Washington Post. Frutos is far from the only person who will have trouble forgetting Izabel Laxamana’s hair. Days before the teen’s death, Laxamana’s father cut off her hair on camera in an apparent attempt to shame his daughter for “getting messed up. ”. [ Inside Tumblr’s teen suicide epidemic ]. Suicides, especially teen suicides, are a complex matter. A message Laxamana posted online last August hinted at deeper troubles. “I feel hated most of the time im in school i feel looked down on and i get judged alot” [sic] she wrote. “In a school with so many people its weird to say ‘i feel alone’ but the truth is that you really do feel alone. Still, a local blog directly blamed the shaming video for Laxamana’s suicide. And on a Facebook page called “Justice for Izabel ,” commenters called for the father to be prosecuted or publicly shamed himself. Source: www.washingtonpost.com
