A teenager in New York, apparently tormented by bullies and devastated by a recent breakup with her boyfriend, stepped in front of an oncoming city bus and ended her life just days after Christmas.
Amanda Cummings, a 15-year-old girl from Staten Island, had been bullied for years, according to her relatives. Her uncle told the New York Post, “She was always being picked on and tormented by other kids and bullied. It was years of being tormented. She clinged to people. She was a very sensitive child. People can only take so much. I want some kind of justice done. Our family lost a life.”
It appears a recent breakup was more than she could take. Amanda stepped in front of a city bus on December 27 with a suicide note in her clothing. In the note, according to authorities, Amanda says she couldn’t go on without the boy she had been seeing.
Her uncle says the bullying that haunted Amanda had lasted for years, and continued even after she killed herself. He tells the New York Daily News, the brutal taunting went on, even as she was clinging to life in a hospital bed. He says one Facebook comment read, “LMAO she jumped in front of a bus. Lol.” He says those posts have now been deleted.
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