Teen commits suicide after nude photo scandal
Jessie Logan ended the relationship with her boyfriend, but the X-rated photo that she sent him in happier times couldn’t be stopped. After their break-up, the naughty picture of the Cincinnati teen went viral, passed to hundreds of other students. Harassment soon followed.
“They’d call her slut, whore, a skank,” said Lauren Taylor, one of Jessie’s friends, in an interview with WLWT TV News. “They’d say that she was just trying to be a porn star.”
In July, Jessie hanged herself in her bedroom. Her mother is now going public with Jessie’s suicide in an attempt to warn other teens about the dangers of sexting – and bullying. “She was being attacked and tortured,” Cynthia Logan said on NBC’s Today Show.
Jessie’s mom and friends say that she changed from a vivacious, fun teenager into a depressed introvert who skipped school. No matter what she did, it seemed as if technology would not let her escape embarassment. “When she would leave school, she would get on her MySpace or her Facebook, and then kids would be messaging her on that or texting her phone, people she didn’t even know,” Lauren said. Jessie’s cell phone was found not too far from her body, on the bedroom floor.
Photo from NBC Today Show Web site
