Fifth-grade girl commits suicide after alleged bullying incident at U.S.

The parents of a fifth-grade girl in the U.S. state of Colorado said their daughter killed herself after being bullied at school.

Ashawnty Davis, 10, died last Wednesday at a local children's hospital, two weeks after she was found hanging in a closet at home.

At the end of October, the girl was involved in a fight at school. Her parents claimed that her daughter was confronting a bully. The fight was recorded by another student and posted on an app called Musical.ly.

The app company made a statement that they were absolutely heartbroken to hear about that.

The parents insisted that the Cherry Creek School District should have done more to stop the bullying that led to their daughter's death. According to them, bullying incidents have happened in a number of cases involving teens over the past couple of years.

The school district issued a statement that "We do not tolerate bullying of any kind in our schools and we have a comprehensive bullying prevention program in place at all of our schools," according to local media.

The parents are now determined to hold educators accountable in cases of bullying and to figure out an anti-bullying policy that actually works.

"With the last breath in my life I'm going to make sure that the unfortunate kids are able to go to school comfortably and learn," the mother of the girl told local media.

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)