She is the one in pink.
Posted on 12/01/2017 4:45:32 AM PST by ETL
AURORA, Colo. -- An Aurora couple are dealing with an unimaginable loss as they prepare to lay their 10-year-old daughter to rest.
“She was just a child of joy and she brought joy to everyone,” her father Anthony Davis said.
Ashawnty Davis was a fifth-grader at Sunrise Elementary School in Aurora. She had a passion for basketball and wanted to grow up to be a WNBA star.
But her parents say something changed in the happy little girl at the end of October when she was involved in a fight after school on Sunrise Elementary property.
“She got into her first ever fight. It was recorded by a student and sent to an app called Musical.ly,” Davis said.
In the video, Ashawnty and another girl are seen fighting, while a group of kids watched. According to Ashawnty’s mother, her daughter confronted the girl, who she claims had been bullying her.
“I saw my daughter was scared,” said Latoshia Harris, Ashawnty’s mother.
While the video is difficult to watch, her parents believe it’s important to see.
“She was devastated when she found out that it had made it to Musical.ly,” Davis said.
The parents say the bullying she endured after the video surfaced was too much for the 10-year-old to handle.
“My daughter came home two weeks later and hanged herself in the closet,” Harris said.
Ashawnty spent nearly two weeks at Children’s Hospital Colorado on life support before dying Wednesday morning.
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She is the one in pink.
That just breaks my heart. A whole wonderful life in front of her. She was courageous enough to take on the bully, I can’t imagine what further cruelty led her to take her life.
She was just a baby, too young for that much pain
Horrible story.
Doesn’t look like the guy in that video is trying to stop them from fighting.
Her village failed her
We start loading kids down with the weight of the world when they are toddlers. Play dates, doing well in kindergarten to get in to the “right”college, filling their heads with global warming propaganda, LGBT awareness, Humanism, etc. They are like overstresed 40year olds by the time they are 8, so I’m not surprised that they choose suicide.
And they never fight fair. They gang up in packs. Or they do a "gentle giant" on a weaker victim like the hulking lunkhead Michal Brown did — bullying the tiny Asian store clerk. Or they blindside the elderly and women with their "knockout game".
This is awful, but the overall story raises a lot of questions. The little girl “confronted” the bully? In the video the girl in pink is the aggressor and IS the bully — the girl in white appears to be moving away and on defense. What role did the larger guy in the foreground play? Who was filming (and therefore either put her up to confronting the other girl or knew about this in advance)? Who posted the film? A second hand with a camera sweeps into the video — another bystander egging this on? Would a feisty girl like that really hang herself over some dumb fight video? Is there a big gofundme drive going?
I don’t even know what to say. This just breaks my heart.
Not to in any way be unsympathetic in this loss of a child, but when did we lose all our coping mechanisms?
We’re told that everyone needs an Emotional Support Service Animal, has PTSD, needs drugs, prescription and otherwise, needs grief counseling, needs therapists, has their life permanently ruined by some boss that told them they were cute, or GOd forbid, make a pass at them, and so much more.
We have become a nation of government-dependent wussies. What did the pioneers in Conestoga wagons do when they had a problem, cry along with Oprah?
We lost a fellow student to a traffic accident in high school. The principal came on the PA, we all had a brief prayer, and got on with our lives.
It’s time to toughen up!
I saw a very short video posted on Twitter where a tricycle writing two or three year old blonde girl with blue eyes was attacked by three youths who were ages maybe 6 to 10. They made her punch herself in her face and were spitting in her face while she was trying to do was get away on her tricycle. Another youth was videotaping it and posted it online. It was disgusting.
The culture that she was born into of violence and Keepin’ It Real failed her too.
I remember that Hate Crime you reference.
Of course, it was labeled “not a Hate Crime”.
Wonder if the bully was from a single mom household?
Feral youth ,,, no fathers at home ,, grandmother raising daughters children . Children developing predatory behavior and the weak become victims .
Posts like yours are embarrassing.
The death of a child is heartbreakingly sad. The lives of those who loved her will never be the same. I wonder where someone so young even gets the concept of hanging herself.
yes, it seems everything became about feelings, instead of realizing we have feelings but they are not to solely control us in our mind or our choice making. That’s where oprah and many others have much to answer for, in leading people to believe that your feelings are your true self and you need to honor how you feel, etc etc.
Totally conflicts with some laws and definitely with the bible and God’s word on how to handle things. IE: I feel like driving 100 mph and people better stay outa byway because i don’t feel like stopping. I feel like having these things from the store and I don’t feel like paying. I feel like having that person as my spouse even if they are married with kids or still underage, I will “manifest” them for myself, I’ll make it happen. People acting by feelings are the cause of so many problems, with parenting, with divorce, with working, all sorts of ways people let their feelings mess up the moment or their lives and others lives.
Because she may have been getting the better of the other girl at that point in the fight doesn't mean she initiated the fight, or had in any way bullied the other.
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