There have been a number of high-profile cases similar to Audrie Potts across the U.S. and Canada in recent years. 'The Boy in the Plastic Bubble' was the romantic drama movie that helped get John Travolta's name on the map. According to accounts told to the police, three classmates that Pott had known since middle school helped carry the intoxicated teen upstairs. 'This case is and will always be about the tragic consequences associated with sexual assault and cyber bullying.'. Throughout the evening, she became more and more desperate, her agitation and the callousness of her friends evident in Facebook transcripts. I heard you cut yourself, the girl said loudly. (Audrie Pott Foundation via Facebook) Pictures of the assault were posted online, accompanying bullying. Audrie Taylor Pott (May 27, 1997 - September 12, 2012) was a 15-year-old student at Saratoga High School in Saratoga, California, who died by suicide.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 with accompanying bullying.. On September 30, 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Audrie's . A sign at Saratoga High School in support of Audrie Pott. This was not Steubenville. In one exchange, she speaks to one of her alleged attackers: AUDRIE: u know what im talking about i dont remeber anything about that [A friend] had to tell me everything i swear to god if u still have those pictures illl killl u, BOY: They are deleted and I didn't take them I promise it wasn't me And I'm sorry about the marker, AUDRIE: You have no idea what it's like to be a girl, CLASSMATE: lol that shit gets around haha everyone knows mostly everything hahaah. A year before the Labor Day assault, Audrie went to school officials saying she had been bullied by boys, Vasquez said, although he would not say whether the incidents involved the same group of teens. Letters: Proposed age limit for gun ownership in Colorado doesn't make sense, Woman shot near CU Boulder overnight, suspect is at large, Multiple Colorado schools temporarily placed under secure status due to threats, Skygazers will have a great view Wednesday of two planets that look like they are almost touching, In 4 years, Lori Lightfoot went from breakout political star to divisive mayor of a Chicago beset by pandemic and crime, Florida lawmakers to consider expansion of so-called dont say gay law, Drone crashes at Disneyland after hovering over visitors heads See video, Rapper Travis Scott wanted for assaulting Manhattan club sound engineer, destroying $12K in equipment, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. One student said there were no assemblies and no announcements about the arrests. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP). . And the jaws drop, because right away, they think of the sex they had at a party last weekend, where everybody was wasted., Alone in the house she once shared with her only child, Sheila Pott pours herself another glass of chardonnay and wipes away tears that still well up regularly, eight months after Audries death. A year after a popular California student was bullied and humiliated to the point that she took her own life, new details have emerged, helping to piece together the tragic timeline of events as a means of understanding why the beautiful, bright 15-year-old would commit suicide, writer Nina Burleigh reveals in a powerful piece in Rolling Stone. Three or more teenagers sexually assaulted Pott there. April 15, 2013 12 AM PT. At around 5 p.m., Audrie and one of the boys had the following exchange: AUDRIE: joe i need to talk to u. JOE: What AUDRIE: one word AUDRIE: marker JOE: What about marker AUDRIE: u know what im talking about. No one from the school contacted the family, though. 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. A few kids had brought some bottles of liquor rum stolen from Safeway, vodka bought for them by an adult at a liquor store. A counselor came in, a young woman, and actually said to Audrie, Get a different group of friends. Help this epidemic of sexual assault, distributing photos and cyber-bullying to stop.' Audrie Pott's step-mother, Lisa, read private Facebook messages Audrie sent after the alleged attack, found . Lisa says she was a disciplinarian who put a tracking app on Audries phone and wouldnt let her miss school, whereas her mother was more lenient. 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 with accompanying bullying. Three area attorneys representing the boys issued a statement in April saying in part that it was "disturbing" to link Pott's suicide to the three boys. She had problems like any other high-schooler. The foundation says they hope to one day have the resources to stop cyberbullying. She told friends she had cut herself on a vase. In her passing, she has been a catalyst for change, and all who knew her would expect nothing less.". Shockingly, one of the boys convicted of assaulting Pott is claiming that the girl's parents share some of the blame in their daughter's tragic death. 'ill make sure nothing goes around. [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. I asked if they thought she was being bullied, says Sheila. The comments below have been moderated in advance. Whats that? she asked. Her friends were appalled. Apr 16, 2013, 8:17 AM. Audrie wrote that the whole school knows. Taken when Pott was drunk and unconscious at a friend's party, the photos depicted Pott as her so-called "friends" had left her: Drawn and written all over with permanent markers, after being sexually assaulted by three classmates. One of the boys Audrie made out with was so drunk he started crying and screaming. Audrie, who had gone to a house party in Saratoga on Labor Day weekend, had too much to drink and fell asleep in a bedroom and woke up to the worst nightmare imaginable, according to her familys lawyer, Robert Allard. At some point, Mary returned to find Audrie in her underwear and put a blanket over her, then left the room again. You need to come back to reality, Kathy told her. 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. 3. She was so different than how I knew her to be. The students who talked to Rolling Stone were much like the parents divided into two factions about the boys relative guilt. Whats very clear to me from this Pott case, and other cases around the country, is that for raped or sexually assaulted young girls, its one thing that people are gossiping about you in school, but when you add images that they can keep forwarding, it really can seem like the whole world knows.. Audrie lived in the Silicon Valley suburb of Saratoga, California. All the while, they took photos on their phones, which were forwarded to classmates and circulated on social media. 3 of 15 4 of 15 Photo of Audrie Pott provided by the Pott family. In the feature, Pott is quoted confronting her male classmates who were at the party, saying a female friend told her about everything that happened. Shit always does. Many are too humiliated to stay in school. On the other side, there are people who think the boys are guilty of a stupid but basically innocent prank and that Audries suicide had other causes. The Northern California girl committed suicide last year after the alleged rape, and news outlets have said that the photos of the assault were widely distributed in . Some like it, NOT! SAN JOSE -- An attorney for the family of a 15-year-old who killed herself after an alleged sexual assault by classmates said Monday that Audrie Pott had "some markings . One of Audries friends from middle school was overheard telling another student, Shut down your Facebooks, cops are looking. Another friend had even acknowledged in a Facebook message to Audrie before she died that he didnt want to discuss it further on Facebook presumably because there would be a record. Once she was drunk, she was dragged up the stairs and into a bedroom. 'She had been, literally, the best person you could meet always honest and trustworthy,' Kathy told Rolling Stone. It was from a fellow student who scribbled, I didnt have time to buy you flowers, so I made you one in shop class. He signed it Matt P.. 'ur fine,' he responded. Her devastated parents blame her death on the horrific sexual attack a week earlier at the hands of three teenage boys who then allegedly tried to cover up their involvement. With Audrie still sprawled out on the bed and unresponsive, the boys allegedly fingered her and took pictures on their phones. Then Kathy Atabakhsh, one of her best friends, tore into her on the school quad, accusing her of drinking, of forgetting who she was, of becoming a different person. Loss: Audrie Pott, 15, killed herself last year after she was allegedly sexually assaulted at a party. Audrie didnt answer. In the end, whether the pictures really went viral or not is irrelevant. She had been sexually assaulted at a party eight days earlier by three 16-year-old boys she knew, and pictures of her were posted online with . Audrie hanged herself eight days later. 189 Followers, 23 Following, 5 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Audrie Pott (@audriepot) 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? According to the San Jose Mercury News, a tentative settlement has been reached with Michael and Sheila Penuen, the owners of the house where the party took place. The accused boys kept going to school, whispers died down. Cruel: Pott, right, was aassaulted after a night of drinking and boys spread photos of the attack. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, the school is home to high-achieving children of parents working at Apple, eBay, Netflix and other tech corporations headquartered within 50 miles. This episode Web of Lies examines the tragic case of teen Audrie Pott, who . But Sheila couldnt pry the cause of the academic struggles out of her daughter. After seven months of detailed investigation, including the confiscation of numerous cellphones and computers of students, sheriffs deputies arrested three 16-year-old boys on Thursday, pulling two out of Saratoga High School classes where they were still enrolled and one who had transferred to Christopher High School in Gilroy. Larry Pott said in an emotional press conference last April that the boys' actions were nothing short of "disgusting. A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing anti-cyberbullying presentations to schools, art and music scholarships, grants for school. A sign at Saratoga High School in support of Audrie Pott. . JOE: Fucking Henry AUDRIE: i dont remeber anything about that. 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., The lawyer representing the Pott family on Friday said, however, that there was nothing else so distressing in her life that would cause her to kill herself. They want the boys to like them, says Amanda. Audrie Pott killed herself after humiliating photos of a sexual assault carried out on her were posted on social media. . In the pale-peach bathroom, with its shell-shaped sink, gold fixtures and narrow bathtub, her only child was dangling from a belt attached to the shower head, mascara streaking her face. Whats really changed is that before the Internet you could do something really stupid and maybe someone would take a picture of it, so theres the picture and the film, and you could physically capture that, says Rosen. 'My life is overI ruined my life and I don't even remember how,' Audrie said to a classmate in the days following the incident. But I couldnt sue and get my picture off a website called sluttyseventhgraders.com.. Since her iPhone was drowned in vomit in the kitchen sink, she had to borrow a friends phone to call her mother. Attorneys representing the boys have claimed that their clients had nothing to do with Audries suicide and work to portray Audrie as a desperate, troubled young woman. A photo or multiple photos were taken of the assault as it was taking place.. She gives a tour of Audries bedroom, where she hasnt moved a thing. It was a different kind of photo that precipitated her 2012 suicide. Audrie was too blitzed to notice. Sheila Pott, wipes her eyes standing in front of a photograph of her daughter Audrie Pott, who . She knew them pretty well. Half the people have seen her naked, half the people think shes a whore, and judge and bully her. She was extremely angry that an image was captured and it was being disseminated. 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. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. She said it was the boys she had known who assaulted her and, in addition to this, took images of the assault using their phones and share them vie text, emails and, finally, social networking websites, namely, Facebook. SAN JOSE Audrie Pott thought everybody at her high school knew what happened that night. (Audrie Pott Foundation via Facebook). We are no longer accepting comments on this article. They also took turns scribbling crass comments with a black permanent marker all over her naked body. Three San Jose lawyers representing the boys issued a statement Friday saying that much of what has been reported over the past several days is inaccurate. Two of the three received 30-day sentences to be served on weekends. April 15, 2013 -- The parents of Audrie Pott, the California teen who hanged herself days after an alleged sexual assault, implored any students who might have seen a photo of the incident . In 2009, Jill Naber, a freshman at Saratogas sister school, Los Gatos High School, committed suicide. On September 30, 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Audrie's Law, "a bill that increases penalties and decreases privacy protections for teens convicted of sex acts on someone who is passed out from drugs or alcohol or incapable of giving consent due to a disability". [7] Three 16-year-old boys whom she knew eventually pleaded guilty to and served time in juvenile hall for the sexual assault. Associated Press. And then she found the haunting words of her beautiful, once-bubbly daughter: These guys did (expletive) to me while I was sleeping, read one message. They were friends.. . He released a statement reading: 'The sole issue in this case is the callous behavior of the suspects which directly led to Audrie's unnecessary death. 1 A continental record of the Carnian Pluvial Episode CPE from the Mercia Mudstone 1 Group UK: palynology and climatic implications 2 3 VIKTRIA BARANYI1*, CHARLOTTE S. A curvaceous sophomore at Saratoga High School, dressed in the cool-girls uniform of a low-cut top and supershort skirt, she looked the same as always, but inside she was quivering with humiliation. With no assault, with no cyberbullying, Audrie is in art class right now, Larry Pott said at the April news conference, choking back tears. . In the wake of Audries death, Saratoga police agreed with school administrators to wait until the following week, September 17th, to initiate an investigation to allow students, friends and staff to mourn and grieve.. Something about the silence pushed a panic button inside her. Photos of her passed-out body were circulated around her . The digital photos spread like wildfire among students at Saratoga and at least one image was posted on the Internet, Allard said. But it is never talked about in class., Writer Laurie Halse Anderson published an influential book in 1999 called Speak, about a high school rape and its effects on a victim. 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. Thoughts from Audrie Pott are written on paper in her home in Saratoga, Calif. writer Nina Burleigh reveals in a powerful piece in Rolling Stone, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. Sheila Pott poses with a portrait of her daughter Audrie in Los Altos, Calif., ON May 23, 2013. This story is from the September 26th, 2013 issue of Rolling Stone. "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. The mixer of choice was Gatorade, or downed straight. When Sheila pulled up in her car later that Monday afternoon on September 10th, 2012, Audrie jumped in but remained silent on the short drive home. 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 with accompanying bullying. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Awakening in a friend's bedroom after drinking too much at a sleepover, 15-year-old Audrie Pott looked down and realized she had been sexually assaulted and her attackers . Rosenfeld and her students work with girls, sometimes filing civil suits and encouraging them to graduate. See-through shorts and thongs pulled up, shorts pulled down, recalls an older girl. She thought about Audries strange silence on the day after a sleepover the weekend before. Published: 06:54 GMT, 15 January 2014 | Updated: 10:07 GMT, 15 January 2014, Loss: Audrie Pott, 15, killed herself last year after she was allegedly sexually assaulted at a party. This is a mean group of kids, Sheila recalls one teacher telling her. They are goofy and silly. The law is still in the writing stages, though, and the local legislator hasnt even introduced it. By Maria L. La Ganga and Kate Mather, Los Angeles Times. April 15, 2013 12 AM PT. September 17, 2013. The actor was in his 20s at the time, and it wasn't long before he captured many people's attention with his incredible acting skills. The friends parents were out of town for the weekend, he said, and the teens had access to an unlocked liquor cabinet. And I now have a reputation I can never get rid of., Writing to another boy on Facebook, she said, My life is over. Three teenage boys have admitted to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old . 'And I was so upset that she had changed. ", 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. Find Audrie Pott stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. SARATOGA When Audrie Pott woke up in her friend's house the morning of Sept. 2, after an apparent night of heavy drinking, she found herself undressed and her body covered in marker-drawn . World; Girl 'encouraged' gang rape of Audrie Pott who committed suicide. This powerful doc chronicles the dismally unjust aftermaths of two recent juvenile sexual-assault cases in the U.S. By Dennis Harvey. Days after the suicide, responding to questions from a San Jose Mercury News reporter about rumors of school bullying, principal Paul Robinson said that the rumor was as far from the truth as it can be. Administrators have since refused to respond to questions, citing the ongoing police investigation. In the aftermath of that tragedy, Los Gatos took steps to address the issue by launching counseling and educational outreach services for the problems teens run into with sexual images and technology. Audrie Pott Foundation. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. 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. They cant not. Diane Rosenfeld, director of the Gender Violence Program at Harvard Law School, says such incidents are far more common than just those that wind up in court or involve suicide. The worst of the awful . I had a conversation, a week before Audrie committed suicide, with my son. With Saratoga High in communication-lockdown mode because of the threat of a lawsuit, and administrators refusing to speak even to the community, parents are on their own as far as what they are supposed to do or say to their kids. They were arrested on suspicion of two felonies and one misdemeanor involving sexual assault and the distribution of the images. Arguably, the Steubenville rape would never have been prosecuted without the video. Savannah went public with their names after that, nearly earning herself a contempt-of-court citation because of the juvenile-court privacy regulations, but ultimately influenced the court to rule for the boys to have a misdemeanor on their records for life. Sheila knocked and knocked again. Eight days after the attack, on September 12, 2012, Audrie hanged herself in a bathroom at her mother's house. There was no note, nothing to explain why her popular and pretty daughter had done it. At left, Larry Pott holds a photograph of his daughter Audrie Pott, with his wife Lisa Pott, in Audrie's bedroom, at the Pott's home in Saratoga, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 13, 2013. Audrie Taylor Pott (May 27, 1997 - September 12, 2012) was a 15-year-old student at Saratoga High School in Saratoga, California, who died by suicide. Among her last words were, You have no idea what its like to be a girl.. i fucking hate people. The 15-year-old said boys she had known for years took off her clothes and sexually assaulted her, including writing and . It was Sheila who took her daughter home from school on Sept. 10 after Audrie pleaded to be taken home. Most disturbing is the attempt to link Audreys suicide to the specific actions of these three boys, according to the statement from Eric Geffon, Alan Lagod and Benjamin Williams. In the hospital, Sheila began retracing recent events, looking for some clue as to what could have pushed her daughter to take her own life. Pott was forced to endure taunts on Facebook, with classmates sending her messages saying things like, "u were one horny mofo," according to Rolling Stone. Finally, how do you instill in impulse-driven teens of both sexes the knowledge that whatever they record on their phones and send can reach the entire world and stay public forever? FILE - In this Thursday, May 23, 2013, file photo, Sheila Pott poses with a portrait of her daughter Audrie in Los Altos, Calif. Audrie Pott committed suicide in September 2012 after being . Sexting Shame & Suicide Illustration by Jesse Lenz. ", Pott went to Saratoga High School, pictured. . A GIRL is accused of "encouraging" the gang rape of a classmate and taking pictures of the alleged sexual abuse that were . [6] A few kids had stolen rum, and an adult had bought them vodka at a liquor shop. Most disturbing is the attempt to link (Audries) suicide to the specific actions of these three boys. When she kneed him, she was disciplined. She punched one boy and ran, and then endured 20 to 30 harassing texts a day for months. The Pott family is trying to push for stricter cyber-bullying laws. Her friend, identified only as Jane C., also helped her into the room, but could have left after. The three unidentified goons admitted to "digitally penetrating" Audrie Pott, 15, and having photos of her in Santa Clara County Juvenile Court in September, anonymous sources told the San . The photo went viral apparently shared electronically all the way down to schools in Fresno that played against the Los Gatos teams. Audrie Pott was 15 when she was sexually assaulted at a party, also in 2012, and had crude words drawn on her body with marker pen. SAN JOSE, Calif. . . Delete it. The Mandalorian Season Three Gets Off to a Disappointing Start She wouldnt eat anything for breakfast, says Amanda, one of Audries closest friends. Only one parent of the accused boys returned a call to Rolling Stone. The popular cheerleader hanged herself after a topless selfie circulated. Trump Melts Down Over Murdoch Admitting Fox Lied About Election Fraud The parents of Audrie Pott, a 15-year-old Saratoga girl who killed herself after she was allegedly sexually assaulted at a party last year, added a new female defendant to a suit they filed in San . (AP), Pott responded: "it's gonna get out. You cant capture things on the Internet. Sheila was used to her 15-year-old daughters moods and stopped pressing her. In Nova Scotia, Rehtaeh Parsons, 17, was taken off life support and died this April, three days after her mother discovered her hanging in the bathroom of their Halifax home. She refused to eat in public. I dont know why they would think it would be OK.. I now have a reputation I can never get rid of. I fucked up and I cant do anything to fix it. "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. Audrie started to cry. At some point, I was like, I feel superuncomfortable, everyones so trashed and we are just sitting here. So we left.. But his office is pushing the California Assembly to write a law making cyberbullying an aggravating element in sexual-assault cases. As Audries mother hunted for clues, a female sheriffs deputy assigned to patrol Saratoga High School began hearing whispers that at least one graphic and humiliating photo of Audrie was racing through social media. And I was so upset that she had changed. Audrie had gone to a girlfriends house on Sept. 2, Allard, the familys lawyer said. Audrie Pott Full Biography From: Wikipedia. She would eat an orange at lunch and then wait for dinner. Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman never knew each other. Grief counselors were brought in. Audrie Pott wrote a series of desperate Facebook messages before her death that have been excerpted in Rolling Stone. "If she felt hungry, when no one was looking, she would eat. Sometimes, she loosened up a lot. Partygoers also said they saw her making out with two different boys.
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