A 15-year-old British girl allegedly committed suicide due to an "allergy to Wi-Fi," and now her mother is criticizing the school for their failure to safeguard her daughter from the effects of the wireless Internet, an inquest has heard.
Jenny Fry was discovered hanging on June 11 in Broke Wood near her home in Chadlington, Oxfordshire after she texted a friend saying she was going to kill herself, The Independent reported.
The teenager was believed to have been afflicted with symptoms related to a condition called electro-hypersensitivity.
Fry had to endure crippling headaches, tiredness and bladder problems after she developed an allergy towards wireless broadband, according to Yahoo! News.
Even though the family had already taken down the Wi-Fi from their home, it was still being used at Chipping Norton School, where Fry was a student.
"She was receiving lots of detentions, not for being disruptive in class or misbehaving, but often because she used to take herself out of the classroom to find another where she was able to work," Fry's mother said, according to The Mirror.
She added that Fry took her school work seriously. She also tried to talk to the headteacher, Simon Duffy, about her condition but only counteracted that Wi-Fi is completely safe.
"The least they could do was (to) allow her to take them in rooms where she felt able to concentrate, but they wouldn't listen," she said. "I fully believe Jenny did not intend to take her own life. I think she was frustrated with school."
