Girl Takes Life After Gender-Based Taunting

[Shana A]

Posted on Advocate.com November 15, 2011 08:18:40 PM ET
Girl Takes Life After Gender-Based Taunting
By Trudy Ring

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/11/15/Girl_Takes_Life_After_Gender_Based_Taunting/

A 10-year-old Illinois girl has committed suicide after enduring bullying that included being called a boy when she had her hair cut short.

Ashlynn Conner, who lived in the small town of Ridge Farm in eastern Illinois, was found hanged in her closet Friday night, and family members believe she took her own life due to bullying and teasing that had gone on for several years, the Associated Press reports.