Pott's parents also filed a lawsuit against the three teenagers, and in July 2013 they added a fifteen-year-old girl as a defendant in the suit, alleging she was present during the assault and later lied about it to help cover it up. Audrie Pott, a 15-year-old California girl, killed herself eight days after attending a party she was assaulted at in 2012. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act effectively means that no Internet provider can be forced to take down content for invading a persons privacy or even defaming them. Audrie was already stumbling and incoherent, taking shots and making out with different boys on the living-room couch. Audrie started her sophomore year at Saratoga High two days after the assault, with the knowledge that photos of her naked and luridly decorated body were circulating around school. The family of Audrie Pott, a California teenager who allegedly was raped and then committed suicide in September, intends to file a wrongful death lawsuit, the family's lawyer told reporters . Audrie Pott had no memory of what happened the night of the assault, but she heard rumors about it, and rumors that pictures of her naked body were everywhere. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. A sign at Saratoga High School in support of Audrie Pott. She walked across the kitchen and down the long carpeted hall to the bathroom door adjoining Audries room. The images did indeed spread through the Bay Area high school, though it is unclear who initially sent them out. I ruined my life and I don't even remember how. [6] A few kids had stolen rum, and an adult had bought them vodka at a liquor shop. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Edgewood Center for Children and . SFGate.com reported that Allard described the document as 'a revolting attempt to deflect responsibility away from his clients. According to sources, when the police executed a search warrant on the boys, on September 21st, they discovered that Rons phone was broken and one of Bills phones had gone missing. The boys are just so stupid. She gives a tour of Audries bedroom, where she hasnt moved a thing. This was not Steubenville. But his office is pushing the California Assembly to write a law making cyberbullying an aggravating element in sexual-assault cases. Look out for each other, Pwu told the class. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Waking in a friend's bedroom after drinking too much at a sleepover, 15-year-old Audrie Pott looked down . O n the last day of her life, Audrie Pott walked through a crucible of teenage torment. Back in her room, Audrie wasnt so nonchalant. Audrie Pott, the 15-year-old California girl who killed herself after photos of her alleged sexual assault appeared online, felt 'tortured' by the experience of being betrayed by suspects that she . She went out the following weekend and joined a posse of girls, even stopping in at the home of one of the three boys who had allegedly abused her the weekend before. Audrie Pott reasonably believed images of her nearly naked body being fondled and abused without her consent were embedded in phones all over school, and that it was only a matter of time before everyone she knew either saw them or knew what had happened to her body. Sexting Shame & Suicide Illustration by Jesse Lenz. You cant capture things on the Internet. It was a prank by a few kids, and its blown out of proportion. Every two minutes, a sexual assault happens in the U.S., and nearly 50 percent of the victims are under the age of 18, according to Katherine Hull, a spokeswoman for the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network: The demographic of high school- and college-age women is at highest risk for sexual assault. More than half of the incidents go unreported, advocates say. They photographed themselves sexually assaulting her and, by the time she started her sophomore year at Saratoga High School two days later, scores of students had seen the images. And theres no point in pulling a prank unless you share it. Anderson said parents and educators need to talk to younger boys about informed consent. Jun. What really strikes me is that, when it comes to recording sexual assaults and wanting to show it off, the young men committing them are not seeing them as crimes, they see them as pranks. The Pott family is trying to push for stricter cyber-bullying laws. It was a different kind of photo that precipitated her 2012 suicide. An adult monitor handed her a dress-code violation her skirt was too short even though all the girls in her class dressed that way and monitors rarely objected. Sheila Pott poses with a portrait of her daughter Audrie in Los Altos, Calif., ON May 23, 2013. 'It's gonna get out. S*** always does. 189 Followers, 23 Following, 5 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Audrie Pott (@audriepot) Her parents split before she was five, and Larry Pott, an entrepreneur who ran a commerical-security business, married a younger Canadian woman, became a Jehovahs Witness and had three more children. In court documents filed by attorney Philip Pereira on behalf of one of Pott's unnamed attackers, the boy claims that Lawrence and Sheila Pott failed to act on the girl's 'long-standing and serious emotional problems before her suicide and they should have sought professional help.'. The Audrie Pott Foundation was also created by Pott's father, mother and stepmother, giving scholarships to students in the Bay Area hoping to pursue art and music. Audrie's parents, Larry and Sheila Pott, are now separated, and Larry is remarried. She was so different than how I knew her to be. If you feel disrespected, the office staff doesnt do much to help you, Hayes says. She was engaged in a frantic attempt to discover what had happened to her body. A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing anti-cyberbullying presentations to schools, art and music scholarships, grants for school. When they arrested the boys, police seized new phones and other electronic gadgetry their parents had bought to replace what authorities took in the fall. Change source. Audrie Pott, a student at Saratoga High School in Silicon Valley, hanged herself in her bathroom on Sept. 10, 2012, only a week after passing out drunk at a party where she said boys she had known for years took off her clothes, sexually assaulted her and took images of the attack on their phones. Daisy lived in the small rural town of Maryville, Missouri. She grabbed the first thing she could find to jimmy the lock the tiny metal rod at the end of her phones earplug and jammed it into the doorknob. She had been sexually assaulted at a party eight days earlier by three 16-year-old boys she knew and nude pictures of her were posted online. And I now have a reputation I can never get rid of., Writing to another boy on Facebook, she said, My life is over. ", Larry Pott and his wife, Lisa, pose for a portrait holding a picture of Larry's daughter Audrie in Saratoga, Calif. Larry Pott and his first wife, Sheila, had divorced years earlier. Courtesy of . If there is a sleepover, one of the boys might put whipped cream on someones hand. (KNTV). As part of the terms of settlement, two of the boys were required to verbally apologize in open court, admit again to the sexual assault, admit to their role in the death of Audrie Pott, agree to being filmed in a documentary, pay a combined $950,000, support the petition for an honorary diploma for Audrie Pott, and give ten presentations on sexual assault and sexting. But on September 13th, Kathy went to talk to school administrators and describe what she knew about the party at Saras house and how kids at school had pictures of Audrie. Names You Should Know More Than a Decade After the Tragedy Began In 2012, Audrie Taylor Pott and Catherine Daisy Coleman were just 15 and 14 years old, respectively, with their I now have a reputation I can never get rid of. Because we were sober, we noticed everything that was going on, and they didnt know what they were doing., Sara seemed so trashed when she greeted them at the door that Kathy doesnt think her classmate even recognized her. In response to Audries death and the arrests, Saratogas teachers opened discussions with students about the case that had fractured the affluent suburban veneer of the high school. She missed only one day of school that week and put on a brave face. Audrie Pott, a student at Saratoga High School in Silicon Valley, hanged herself in her bathroom on Sept. 10, 2012, only a week after passing out drunk at a party where she said boys she had known for years took off her clothes, sexually assaulted her and took images of the attack on their phones. In police interviews, the teenagers admitted to coloring half of her face black with marker, then pulling down her bra, taking off her shorts and drawing on her breasts and near her genitals. It certainly wasnt her intellect Audrie attended summer school for the class she had failed and got As. We put resources into the De Anza case and were frustrated that it couldnt be prosecuted, said Smith, the sheriff, explaining the length of the Saratoga investigation. Saratoga, Calif. A few days after Audrie Pott killed herself, while her baffled parents were grieving and students across the Saratoga High School campus wore her favorite color, teal, in h A few kids had brought some bottles of liquor rum stolen from Safeway, vodka bought for them by an adult at a liquor store. Thoughts from Audrie Pott are written on paper in her home in Saratoga, Calif. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP). Kids in England had to wear masks at school because No10 'didn't want an argument' with Nicola Sturgeon - Health ministers knew there was no evidence to justify making kids abide by rule of 6 - but No10 'didn't Charles evicting Harry and Meghan is the act of a King putting his country first: REBECCA ENGLISH reveals A royal princess at Eton? And the bodies most frequently watched and passed around are female. They are not malicious, mean criminals. 'ur fine,' he responded. Looking for Audrey Potts online? Looking back on it, her friends think that these problems developed in middle school, during several years of sexually tinged bullying. You need to come back to reality, Kathy told her. Audrie Taylor Pott (May 27, 1997 - September 12, 2012) [1] was a 15-year-old student at Saratoga High School in Saratoga, California, who died by suicide. The students who talked to Rolling Stone were much like the parents divided into two factions about the boys relative guilt. The messages show her pleading with Joe to delete the pictures. The door was locked. The accused boys kept going to school, whispers died down. On April 11th, seven months after Audries suicide, the Santa Clara County sheriff arrested the three boys on charges of misdemeanor sexual battery, felony possession of child pornography and felony sexual penetration. In 2009, Jill Naber, a freshman at Saratogas sister school, Los Gatos High School, committed suicide. On the last day of her life, Audrie Pott walked through a crucible of teenage torment. Audrie brushed her off. Whats that? she asked. "We are hopeful that everyone understands that these boys, none of whom have ever been in trouble with the law, are to be regarded as innocent. Police found new pictures of other nude teen girls on some of their phones, prompting them to add on new charges in July. [11], A civil case filed by Pott's parents, to decide if the boys were responsible for her death, was originally set to go to forward to trial in April 2015,[12] but reached settlement before then. "I have a reputation for a night I don't even remember, and the whole school knows," Pott wrote to a friend in a message on Facebook days before she took her own life. That afternoon, she locked herself in her bathroom for a long time, and then huddled with her computer in her bedroom. The three teenage boys who authorities say drove 15-year-old Audrie Pott to hang herself in . Sundance Film Review: 'Audrie & Daisy'. [13], A documentary film titled Audrie & Daisy, about the sexual assaults and social media bullying of Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016. A sexual assault on an unconscious victim is not considered forcible. . People falling over, walking around. The problem is systemic. 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