12-year-old bullied girl hangs herself after posting late-night picture showing 'RIP' written in pen on her heel
Jessica Scatterson killed herself two days before her 13th birthday and had posted a series of disturbing messages and images on social media on the night of her death
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A 12-year-old schoolgirl killed herself after she was allegedly bullied at school, an inquest into the suicide at the Warrington Town Hall heard. Jessica Scatterson took the drastic step of ending her own life on April 22 last year, with her father finding her hanging.
According to the Daily Mail, it was Scatterson's friends who alerted the police to the possibility that she might be thinking of taking her life after the pre-teen had posted a picture of her foot and other disturbing messages on her social media account in the middle of the night.