10-year-old girl hangs herself after being bullied in school over her race and for being autistic

A 10-year-old girl, Isabella Faith Tichenor, committed suicide after being bullied at school because of her race and suffering from autism.

According to her mother, Brittany, she was bullied by classmates because of autism and dyslexia, and her grandfather Gregory said she was also bullied because of being black.

Brittany said that the abuse was reported to the school in North Salt Lake City, Utah, but did not take any action to protect her daughter.

In her words:

“As any parent would, we reported this abuse to her teachers, the school administration, and the district administration, she told a press conference.

“Nothing, nothing was done to protect Izzy. Children did not have their behavior corrected so the torment of this child continued day after day.

“You really wouldn’t have known she was going through that.

“So that was the hardest part. She must have internalized this.”

The little girl’s grandmother Paula Harris said they will now be the “voice” for Izzy to fight bullying.

Harris said;

“We are going to be Izzy’s voice, we are going to ring the bell as loud as we can because we are going to stop this bullying. That little girl had spark, that little girl had hopes and dreams.”

A press conference was organized to solve this problem. The Tichenor family attended the meeting with PTA representatives from Foxboro Elementary School.

Breanna Larson said in an interview with 2News: “Everyone has a role here in this failure, and everyone has a role in the solution. It is on the parents, it’s on the students, it’s on the teachers, it’s on the administration.”

Izzy’s grandfather, Gregory Tichenor, told The Sun: “My daughter went to the teacher and she went to the principal, and nothing was done. This has been going on for months and nothing was done. It was both verbal and physical.”

YHe insisted that he believed that Isabella was racially discriminated against and was called the “N” by other children.

“We think this was racially motivated. This is what they do. This is their makeup but it needs to change,” he insisted.