US: Las Vegas Sixth Grader Dies By Suicide After She 'Was Literally Bullied To Death'

A sixth grader from the US city of Las Vegas killed herself after she was bullied throughout the school year, according to her family, who claim the city authorities refused their request to transfer their daughter.

Flora Martinez, 12, took her life on May 7. The news of her death came just two days after 10-year-old Sammy Teusch in Indiana state suffered the same fate after “horrific bullying.” “Look how hard it was on my daughter. My daughter was literally bullied to death,” her mother, Alice Martinez, told a local TV station on Thursday.

Blaming Clark County School District for their daughter’s death, Flora’s parents said the district failed to protect their little girl. Flora’s family said they reported the preteen’s torment to the school’s assistant principal, but the bullying from her classmates continued.

According to the grieving mother, the bullies set their sights on Flora at the start of the 2023-24 academic year. Things got so bad that Alice submitted paperwork to transfer her daughter out of the middle school. The plea was however denied on Oct. 6, 2023. “At that point, I already had her out of school for two weeks because of all the incidents. Just that short amount of time into the school year,” Martinez was quoted as saying by New York Post.

Flora’s father, Joshua Parker said this wasn’t just one incident that happened, and you know, she decided to take her life. “This was months and months and months of bullying that built up, and finally, she just couldn’t take it no more,” he said.

Flora’s parents accused the school district of doing nothing to protect their 12-year-old. “I feel like the school had a duty to keep her safe, while she was in their care and they just failed miserably,” her mother Alice said. “Everybody that had a hand in that request to transfer her failed her … If you’re a parent and you’re not outraged by this, you’re part of the problem too.”