Schoolgirl, 13, found hanged amid claims she was bullied because she was pretty

Daily Mail ^ | 2:24 PM on 10th March 2010 | Daily Mail Reporter

[Niuhuru]

An investigation has been launched into the death of a 13-year-old schoolgirl amid claims she hanged herself after being bullied because she was pretty. Poppy Bracey was found in her bedroom last week after returning home from her Manchester school. The teenager was taken to hospital but later died. Council officials said today they are looking into allegations Poppy was being bullied in the run up to the death.

Friends at 1,000-pupil Lowton High School, in Leigh, posted a series of messages on internet sites claiming Poppy was being picked on. One, at the specialist sports college where former pupils include Ting Tings singer Katie White, said: 'This poor girl was apparently being bullied at Lowton High School and has sadly ended her own life by hanging herself.' Another said: 'Why would someone want to bully her?? Apart from jealousy.'

[DJ MacWoW]

Sometimes it pays to be smart! :-)

[Little Bill]

In my family and among those that I grew up with, the eldest sons and cousins were supposed to rip out the throats of those that cast aspersions on sisters and other related women folk.

Of course the ladies, hid behind it and played it for all that it was worth, they could play the mating game with out serious repercussions, unless they did an eight month baby, remember the first can come at any time the second takes nine months.

The one time my daughter was socally assaulted I got her into DAR and invited her class mates to attend the initiation. I won't tell you about the time when she beat the hell out of her cousin a cop.

[DJ MacWoW]

It would have been wonderful to have a male relative that protected us. It was not to be.

[Terpfen]

Bluetooths are even worse as the antenna is right up against the skull and the antenna is the source of the waves (microwaves?)

This is false. Bluetooth headsets emit less radiation than the phone itself. If you must hold the phone to your head eight hours a day, a Bluetooth headpiece will beam merely a fraction of the already tiny amount of waves into your skull that the phone would.

[sarasota]

That’s not what a panel of docs said on a Larry King episode.

[Terpfen]

Are you really citing anything said on Larry King Live as the truth? Really?