Sexually abused girl kills herself after 144 tweets

An 18-year-old high school student in Houston, Texas in the US, sent 144 tweets expressing her pain and grief before killing herself.

  

Ashley Billasano did not go to her school as usual on Tuesday morning. 

  

Instead, the senior at BF Terry High School took to her Twitter page, posting more than 100 tweets over the course of six hours.

In the messages, the pretty 18-year-old said she has been molested and forced into prostitution, My Fox Houston reported. 

More than 500 people were following her Twitter account when she tweeted: "I'd love to hear what you have to say but I wont be around."

  

And finally her last tweet: "Take two. I hope I get this right."

  

The troubled teen used the social networking website to describe how she felt the first time she was abused. She wrote: [afterwards] "I went to the bathroom and locked the door" 

     

"I took apart a razor. I did what I had to do to forget. I swear after that night I was never the same."

"She explained that she had confided in adults about the horrific secret, but nothing happened. I remember telling my closest teacher and CPS and the police detectives," she said.

"I remember having to tell them everything."

Chief Craig Brady of the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Department told My Fox Houston: "It's obvious she needed somebody to talk to and that's what I believe those tweets were."

"She was trying to communicate and trying to get people to talk to her."

Brady said Ashley had made allegations of abuse a year ago in Williamson County, near Austin.

According to friends the suffering Ashley wanted her death to make a difference even though her life had become insufferable.

Her 144 tweets, which took place over six hours on 7th November and finished a short time before she killed herself through suffocation, seemed to recount sexual abuse at the hands of a family member and other adults.

Ashly Escamilla, her classmate and best friend told the Houston Chronicle: "This wasn't random. She planned this for a reason."

"She made a decision that this was what she was going to do to get attention if she was not going to get justice."

Chief Brady said: "My understanding, that was looked into the sheriff's office there, the D.A'S office and a grand jury. There was no indictment issued."

On her last day Ashley tweeted "Weeks passed, then I got the call. They said sorry but there isn't enough evidence I hung up."

"That's when I changed. I didn't care anymore and the people I was meeting gave me no reason to."

Police said they didn’t want a lot of detail about her death to be published to avoid encouraging copy cats, but said it might not be the first time the teen had tried to take her own life.

Brady said: "Authorities believe this was not the first time she had attempted suicide. She had learned the method of the internet."


source: The Daily Chili

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