08/06/2020 - 11:39
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A news shocked those who watched the Netflix documentary Audrie & Daisy in the last hours. At 23, Daisy Coleman, the girl who had been raped at age 14 in 2012, who related her suffering on camera, committed suicide.
The girl lived the horror during a party in the state of Missouri and those responsible were never arrested.
In 2016, she participated in the documentary on the streaming platform that focused on how she and her family had gone through the trauma of aggression and subsequent rejection by the community.
It was Daisy's mother, Melinda, who revealed to the TMZ site that her daughter had committed suicide on Tuesday the 4th of the night. Her body was already found lifeless in her home.
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"If they saw messages, strange posts, it was because I called the police to see how I was doing," the woman wrote on Facebook. "She was my best friend and an amazing daughter. I think she did everything to make me think I could live without her, but I can't. I wish I could have taken the pain away from her! She never recovered from what those guys did to her and she just didn't it's fair. My girl is gone. "
The documentary in which Coleman dared to tell his ordeal premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. It was directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk. It also recounted the sexual assault suffered by Audrie Pott (in September 2012, in California). Audrie committed suicide 10 days after the attack.
Daisy Coleman's mother's message
In January 2012, Daisy's mother discovered her then 14-year-old daughter unconscious in the garden. She had been abandoned there overnight by Matthew Barnett, 17. Daisy later claimed that Barnett had forced her to drink until she passed out.
It was when her mother took her to the emergency room that doctors confirmed that Daisy was showing signs of rape. The complaint was quickly made, and although detectives brought Barnett in for questioning, they soon dropped the charges against him, citing "insufficient evidence." His neighbors called Daisy a "liar". The harassment became so severe that her family had to move out of town and Daisy tried to kill herself on several occasions.
According to TMZ, the family had suffered another tragedy last year: Daisy's younger brother died in a car accident in Kansas. The Colemans had moved to Missouri after their father died in a road accident.
