A series of group chats between bullies has led to the revelation of a New Jersey teen's suicide.
Jocelyn Walters, 14, sadly took her own life in September 2022 after experiencing months of bullying and abuse, all at the hands of girls who were once supposedly her friends.
The day Jocelyn was hospitalized following a previous attempt at taking her own life, one of the bullies, only known as J.M., ruthlessly told the group, "I'm honestly going to try and keep instigating her."
A lawsuit filed by her parents, Fred and Solangie Walters, lists a number of defendants, including her teachers, nurses, and school district, for neglecting to address the bullying that could have ultimately prevented the tragedy.
In the suit, J.M. is named as the bullying leader and is accused of sending sickening text messages before Jocelyn's suicide, according to The Daily Mail.
Additionally, the lawsuit lists 10 John and Jane Does who "directly harassed, intimidated, bullied, and/or otherwise abused Jocelyn" before her death.
The Walters' believe Jocelyn took her own life after an "extended and persistent pattern of harassment, intimidation, bullying, and abuse directed against her," which they claim the defendants did nothing to stop.
The parents disclose that the girls viciously ostracized their daughter from the group chats and isolated her.
Furthermore, on the day she died, J.M. immediately texted the group of friends with:
"She died; stop making controversy about it.''
Still haunted by their daughter's death, the parents revealed that when Jocelyn initially started high school in 2021, she was a popular and athletic girl with ambitions of becoming a lawyer one day.
"Jocelyn was the student that you wanted. She was the teammate that you wanted. The player that you wanted. She was always there. First one on the field. Last one off," Fred told Fox News.
However, later during the school year, Fred said his daughter was welcomed into a friend group only for them to brutally cut her out and bully her, both in person and online.
"This group of kids actually slept in my house between Christmas and New Year's," he exclaimed.
The lawsuit singles out J.M. as the sole friend who befriended Jocelyn before outcasting her and attempting to isolate her from other students.
"The high school, the board/district, and the board defendants were aware of this conduct and did nothing to protect Jocelyn from harm," the complaint adds.
Jocelyn first attempted suicide in March 2022, but survived the incident and was hospitalized.
Fred alleges that even while Jocelyn was recovering in the hospital, J.M. provoked others to intensify their cruel behavior.
Seemingly admitting that the bullying landed Jocelyn in the ICU, it prompted the girl to send a text that read:
"I wonder if she's going to do anything back."
"I'm honestly going to try and keep instigating her until she actually does something to me that I can get her in trouble for," the text added.
In August 2022, a month prior to the teen's death, the lawsuit cited a nurse at a mental health clinic as having "negligently doubled Jocelyn's antidepressant medication without knowing the dosage she was taking" and "failing to notify Jocelyn's parents of her emergent condition."
Despite Middletown High School North assuring the parents that it was investigating allegations that she may have been the victim of bullying, it later sent a letter dismissing the whole notion.
"After careful consideration of the evidence yielded from the investigation, the district did not find any evidence that Jocelyn was the target of the investigated act of harassment, intimidation, or bullying,' the letter stated.
