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An eight-year-old girl hanged herself after watching a suicide scene in a cult film, an inquest has heard.Kyesha Freeman, who fashioned a makeshift noose, was discovered by her mother, Marika Keize, who was eight months pregnant. Paramedics revived Kyesha, but she died in hospital four days later. Police recovered 18-rated DVDs and videos from her bedroom - including Girl, Interrupted. The film, which stars Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie and Whoopi Goldberg, is set in a 1960s psychiatric hospital and focuses on a group of disturbed young women. In a shocking sequence, a patient, played by Brittany Murphy, commits suicide by...

(AgapePress) - A school district in Maine has reaffirmed its reinstatement of a sexually explicit book several parents want removed from the local high school's curriculum. The Orono School Committee recently voted to retain the controversial novel Girl Interrupted in the ninth grade English literature class at Orono High School.Girl Interrupted, a novel written by Susanna Kaysen, was affirmed for use in the high school curriculum over the objections of parents and local residents who take exception to the profuse profanity and sexual content in the book. Michael Heath, head of the Christian Civic League of Maine (CCLM), says...