11-year-old girl committed suicide in school bathroom, her mother says bullying caused tragic death and shares daughter's ominous audio



An 11-year-old girl committed suicide because she was being bullied at school in New Jersey, according to the child's mother.

On February 6, Felicia LoAlbo-Melendez attempted suicide in a bathroom at the F.W. Holbein Middle School in Mount Holly, New Jersey. She was rushed to a local hospital, then transferred to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she was pronounced dead two days later.

The Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office confirmed that her death was from complications related to her suicide attempt by hanging.

"An investigation into the student's death by the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office, which included a review of the school's surveillance cameras, determined that she was alone in the restroom when this tragic action occurred. The investigation further determined that no foul play was involved. The name of the student is being withheld by the Prosecutor's Office," the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office told NJ.com.

Compounding issues beyond comprehension, Felicia's father and Elaina's husband died two weeks before the little girl's death. New Jersey Transit Police Detective Alexis Melendez died of cancer in January.

The girl's mother, Elaina LoAlbo, claimed that her daughter was bullied for years by classmates at her school, and her death was preventable.

"They called her a furry. She was not a furry," LoAlbo told WCAU. "They called her gay. They called her straight. They called her bi. They called her all kinds of things."

"My daughter was being tortured within the walls of that school," LoAlbo added.

The mother said she met with school officials four times to report that her daughter was being bullied.

LoAlbo said Felicia sent roughly a dozen emails to school officials about the alleged abuse, including one communication just four days before her death.

"She’s telling her teachers. The teachers were witnesses to most of the bullying, physical altercations that were happening in classrooms and on school trips," LoAlbo said.

"She herself had written numerous emails to the administration detailing the events, yet no one was ever questioned," LoAlbo told NJ.com. "They have swept under the rug, the bullying that she and so many other kids in that school have encountered and now they're doing the same with this investigation."

In one email, Felicia asked school officials to offer a "trauma club," where students could have a safe space to discuss mental health issues.

"Instead of a drama club, it would be a Trama [sic] club! Trama [sic] is not a light subject to talk about, but I believe that having somewhere that people can go to, destress and let out all of their feelings and emotions," Felicia wrote.

"I hope that this does happen," Felicia said. "I, for one, have heard from my friends and others about things that have happened to them and I think this would be a fantastic thing. Have a great night."

Elaina shared an ominous audio recording on Felicia's cellphone where the 11-year-old girl is telling people to be nice and "don't be a bully."

"Never ever ever ever be a bully," Felicia said in the audio. "Never be a bully. Or no one will talk to you. But I don’t want that."

Robert Mungo, superintendent of the Mount Holly Township School District, said they were cooperating with the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office.

"Our district suffered a loss, which continues to weigh heavily on the school community," Mungo told Fox News. "School counselors and administrators, with the support of the Burlington County School Crisis Response Team, have and will continue to increase outreach to students and staff and are prepared to aid them in processing this latest information as they continue to grieve."

"We remain focused on strengthening our support system for students, especially regarding their social and emotional well-being," Mungo added. "Beyond that, we are committed to a culture that involves our entire school community in making our schools safe and secure for every student."

LoAlbo declared, "My next steps will be so that no other parent has to fight like I do and no other child ever has to suffer like my daughter has."

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13-year-old boy commits suicide after being bullied at school, parents hope new legislation could help other victimized children: 'I'm still trying to wake up from a nightmare'



An Indiana family is heartbroken after their 13-year-old son committed suicide because he was being bullied at school. The family is hoping that new proposed legislation could help prevent other victimized children from taking their own lives.

At just 13 years old, Terry Badger III committed suicide on March 6.

Terry recorded a video to explain why he took his own life.

His mother, Robyn Badger, told WTHR, "His exact words were, 'They made fun of me every f***ing day and I hate my f***ing life. I’m going to kill myself.'"

His father, Terry Badger II, noted, "It wasn’t like him to cuss."

"We asked Terry every day, 'How's 'school?' He'd always say, 'Great, had fun.'" Robyn said. "That's all he would say. Really pay attention. You don't have a clue what's really going on in their head until it's too late."

The 7th grader said that he was repeatedly bullied by classmates at Covington Middle School. Classmates poked fun of Terry's weight, his haircut, his clothes, and his $150 pair of Nike Air Max shoes.

"He wore them to school one time and then put them in his closet because he said kids made fun of him and he would never wear them again," Terry recalled. "They asked him if he shopped at Goodwill."

"He said, 'Dad, I’m not going back to school. I’m not going to get made fun of anymore,'" Terry stated. “There was a kid that told him he was fat and he just needed to go shoot himself."

The father said he and his son recently starting lifting weights together and the young boy was starting to get chiseled.

The Badgers said they informed school officials last November about their son being bullied.

Brady Scott, superintendent of Covington Community School Corporation, told the IndyStar, "Regarding (the bullying allegations), we have responded to those allegations by launching an independent investigation into the situation at hand. At Covington Schools, any time an incident is reported by students, we investigate and follow up as our policy directs our staff should."

Scott added that the school community "continues to mourn and heal from this tragedy. Covington schools continue to provide support to both students and staff in need."

Terry was a promising baseball player, and there was talk that the 7th grader would be promoted to the varsity team in the spring. Terry dreamed of playing baseball at Purdue University and in the MLB with the St. Louis Cardinals. There are baseballs and wiffle balls adorning his gravesite.

"I'm still trying to wake up from a nightmare and I know it's not going to happen," the father said.

Terry Badger II is calling on the community to do something to prevent other children from committing suicide.

Badger said, "Do we want to keep experiencing this with kids? I mean, we don’t need to put any more kids in the ground."

The Badgers are optimistic that a proposed bill could help future victims of bullying.

House Bill 1483 would require schools to investigate accusations of bullying. The bill would mandate that schools inform the parents of victims of bullying. If the bullying is severe enough, the victim would be able to switch schools or have the bully transfer to another school.

Robyn said of the bill, "It needs to happen. No kid deserves this."

The proposed bill has already passed the House in the Indiana General Assembly.

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Children’s mental health crisis declared a ‘national emergency’ as suicides and ER visits skyrocket amid COVID-19 pandemic



With child emergency room visits and suicide incidents skyrocketing in the U.S. amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a coalition of pediatric health organizations issued a declaration this week labeling the declining mental health of America's young people a national emergency.

What are the details?

In the urgent declaration issued Tuesday, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children's Hospital Association warned that children's mental health had reached crisis levels.

The cohort of health professionals noted that the decline of children's mental health had already been a concern for nearly a decade, but that the pandemic severely exacerbated the situation.

"We have witnessed soaring rates of mental health challenges among children, adolescents, and their families over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, exacerbating the situation that existed prior to the pandemic," the declaration read.

They noted that "rates of childhood mental health concerns and suicide rose steadily between 2010 and 2020, and by 2018 suicide was the second leading cause of death for youth ages 10-24."

But, they said, "the pandemic has intensified this crisis: across the country, we have witnessed dramatic increases in Emergency Department visits for all mental health emergencies including suspected suicide attempts."

What else?

Citing data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NPR reported that overall, in 2020, "the percentage of emergency department visits for mental health emergencies rose by 24% for children between the ages of 5 and 11 and 31% for those 12 to 17, compared with 2019."

The tragic rise was even sharper for teenage girls, specifically. Over roughly the last year, suspected suicide attempts for girls ages 12 to 17 went up an eye-popping 51% compared with the same period in 2019.

Last year's mental health decline has also disproportionately affected children of color. Research published in Pediatrics this month determined that more than 140,000 kids lost a primary or secondary caregiver to COVID-19 — with a majority of those children being children of color.

Anything else?

In the letter, the health professionals called on policymakers at all levels of government to increase their advocacy for children and adolescents, primarily through increasing federal funding for mental health care and suicide prevention.

"We are caring for young people with soaring rates of depression, anxiety, trauma, loneliness, and suicidality that will have lasting impacts on them, their families, and their communities," the letter stated. "We must identify strategies to meet these challenges through innovation and action, using state, local, and national approaches to improve the access to and quality of care across the continuum of mental health promotion, prevention, and treatment."

Horowitz: A freedom spring after the dark winter of tyranny?



It's not just when you're having fun that time flies. I can't believe it's nearly 11 months since my first article noting that locking down and masking children is a crime against humanity divorced from all science. Yet here we are almost a year later, entering a new spring season, with children being forced to mask in school (assuming they are even in school) and being wrongly treated as vectors of spread rather than the future of our country. The consequences are unfathomable and will plague us for years to come.

Last week, CBC News reported that McMaster Children's Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, saw a 90% increase in children admitted for eating disorders, along with a tripling of children patients admitted after suicide attempts over a four-month period.

The culprit? A "lack of social interaction, increased conflict at home, and the inability to rely on friends as main contributors."

As a result, the hospital has also seen double the admissions for drug-related psychosis.

Sadly, there is nothing unique to Canada. It's occurring everywhere in the world where children were shut out of school and where adults selfishly projected their own fears upon children. In places like Los Alamos, New Mexico, emergency responders saw a tripling of suicides during the first eight months of the lockdowns. In August, the CDC reported that 25% of young adults considered suicide, yet the agency has failed to fundamentally change its policies in the ensuing months.

It didn't have to be this way. Even if one agreed with the unprecedented masking and social isolation of adults, the science was clear from day one that children were less at risk either to get sick from or to spread the virus than from typical seasonal pathogens. We could have left children alone to live much of their normal lives and routines.

Ironically, in September 2019, just months before the coronavirus outbreak became apparent in Wuhan, Johns Hopkins wrote a paper for the World Health Organization gaming out "Preparedness for a High-Impact Respiratory Pathogen Pandemic." Hopkins, which became a leading voice for lockdowns just a few months later, warned about the severe consequences of "non-pharmaceutical interventions" (NPIs).

"During an emergency, it should be expected that implementation of some NPIs, such as travel restrictions and quarantine, might be pursued for social or political purposes by political leaders, rather than pursued because of public health evidence," warned the team from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. "WHO should rapidly and clearly articulate its opposition to inappropriate NPIs, especially when they threaten public health response activities or pose increased risks to the health of the public."

Well, several months later, those political NPIs are exactly what Hopkins recommended. Officials destroyed the health of a generation of children, all for politics, when they knew from day one that this virus was not a danger to children. The evidence from day one showed lockdowns of children would be all pain and no gain, yet Hopkins refused to heed its own advice from September 2019.

"It is necessary to further study the effectiveness of NPIs in a variety of contexts to ensure that they are employed properly with a strong evidence base, and that the value of taking any specific NPI intervention in a particular pandemic setting is not outweighed by the potential harm," warned the authors, prophetically. "It is important to communicate to political leaders the absence of evidence surrounding many NPI interventions and the adverse consequences that may follow them."

To this day, we never hear a word from people like Anthony Fauci or CDC Director Rochelle Walensky about the negative consequences of COVID cult-like living on children or anyone else. In fact, this is not even a case of the consequences outweighing the benefits, because there are zero benefits to lockdown. We didn't need 12 months of evidence after lockdowns were implemented to predict they'd fail. The same Hopkins paper predicted this just months before. Here is the money quote:

In the context of a high-impact respiratory pathogen, quarantine may be the least likely NPI to be effective in controlling the spread due to high transmissibility. To implement effective quarantine measures, it would need to be possible to accurately evaluate an individual's exposure, which would be difficult to do for a respiratory pathogen because of the ease of widespread transmission from infected individuals. Quarantine measures will be least effective for pathogens that are highly transmissible, have short incubation periods, and spread through true airborne mechanisms, as opposed to droplets.

It was known from day one that this virus was highly transmissible like a cold and that there was no way we could stop the spread of it as we could of Ebola. Shortly afterward, it became apparent that this virus is transmitted through aerosols, not through droplets, which is why it spread like wildfire even after all the measures were strictly adhered to. It's also why masks became useless.

If one had to list the pros of masking and isolation on one side of a paper, and the short and long-term harms on the other side, the pro side would be blank and the con side would not have enough room to enumerate all of the ways we are destroying the social, mental, emotional, physical, developmental, and educational health of our kids.

Now, as more kids finally return to school, the same people who destroyed their lives for a year are now suggesting that they should strictly wear masks and be yelled at all day for not wearing them properly. "Oh, it's just a mask, what's the harm?" they ask. Yet anyone with a modicum of common sense understands that a mask, aside from the physical harms, serves as a constant reminder for children to needlessly fear this virus and one another. Would we ever treat our pets this way?

Thankfully, the public is finally starting to fight back. People took to the streets to demonstrate in cities throughout the world, including in nearly every country in Europe. Police in Austria even joined in with the protesters. The question for us is whether Americans will lead the freedom spring marches or follow far behind Europe.

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While the science suggests educators should end virtual schooling, many schools remain closed to millions of young people whose mental health is tanking.