Grieving Mississippi mother who claims her teen was bullied before killing herself is sued by her daughter's classmates after her TikToks calling them out went viral

A mother who claims her 13-year-old girl was bullied to decease has been sued and ordered to return down her TikTok.

Aubreigh Wyatt hanged herself successful her chamber in Ocean Springs, near Biloxi, Mississippi, connected September 4, 2023.

Her mother Heather Wyatt claimed nan eighth-grader was bullied for years by 4 classmates at Ocean Springs Middle School, which drove her to suicide.

Wyatt claimed nan maltreatment was some connected societal media for illustration Snapchat arsenic good arsenic offline, astatine slightest erstwhile escalating to beingness violence, but ne'er named nan bullies.

'Aubreigh would beryllium friends pinch them for a week, past they would conflict for a week,' she said successful 1 of galore videos posted connected her TikTok.

'It was conscionable this large societal isolation... Aubreigh was measurement excessively forgiving.'

But now Wyatt is being sued by nan 4 alleged bullies and their parents who claimed a mob of her TikTok followers were harassing and defaming them.

A judge ordered her to return down her TikTok, which reached almost a cardinal followers aft 1 heartbreaking video went viral, to protect nan teenagers and their families from vigilantes. 

Mom finds Aubreigh dormant successful her room

Aubreigh appeared to beryllium a celebrated mediate schoolhouse student, surrounded by friends and smiling successful societal media posts.

But her mother said location was a group, led by 4 girls, who bullied her astatine school, astatine societal events, and online since she was successful 5th grade.

Wyatt's lawyer, Trevor Rockstad of Davis & Crump rule firm, said Aubreigh was called hateful, untrue names and mendacious rumors dispersed astir her.

Taunting was truthful pervasive that it continued unabated moreover aft Wyatt complained to nan schoolhouse territory and tried to intervene.

Wyatt described successful a haunting video really she and her older girl Taylor recovered Aubreigh's assemblage successful her room connected Labor Day.

'I wanted to get it disconnected of her neck, truthful I'm screaming astatine Taylor to get a weapon and she runs successful location and I'm holding Aubreigh's assemblage up... while Taylor cuts and cuts astatine nan statement until it releases,' she said.

'I instantly return Aubreigh's body, that I'm holding and I laic it connected her furniture and I instantly commencement CPR and I americium screaming, begging deity to fto her live. 

'While that is going connected is erstwhile Taylor is calling 911 and everybody else. It was a lot, I didn't want to look it, I conscionable laid pinch her, nan constabulary came, everybody came.

'That is really we recovered Aubreigh, she had taken her life by hanging, successful her room. People successful our metropolis knew astir it wrong 2 days.'

There was an outpouring of condolences crossed nan schoolhouse and nan town, and a infinitesimal of soundlessness was observed astatine nan school's adjacent shot crippled pinch Wyatt and her 2 remaining children connected nan field.

Stuffed animals and bouquets of flowers were piled astatine nan school's gross and students held protests demanding an extremity to bullying.

Aubreigh's pursuing builds

Police began to investigate Aubreigh's decease and nan bullying allegations, which dragged connected into nan caller year.

Once it was over, Ocean Springs Police Chief Ryan Lemaire said each grounds was turned complete to nan section Youth Court, which decided not to property immoderate charges.

Wyatt alternatively sued societal media companies including Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and Snap Inc, which owns Snapchat.

Her lawsuit accused them of preying connected teenagers pinch addictive apps and failing to safeguard them against cyberbullying.

With nan constabulary lawsuit done, Wyatt discontinue her occupation astatine different simple schoolhouse and began to station much astir nan bullying, including sharing messages from nan alleged bullies to her daughter.

One was a photograph of Aubreigh's look pinch a reddish feature she claimed was nan consequence of 1 of nan girls slapping her nan twelvemonth earlier erstwhile she was successful seventh grade.

There were besides redacted Snapchat messages of nan woman apologizing to her, saying 'i really didn't mean to wounded you i'm sorry'.

Aubreigh replied 'i'm sorry you sewage successful trouble' but asked 'could you please extremity talking astir maine to people... i'm rlly complete it'.

The girl's parents person since denied she slapped Aubreigh.

Another station included a photograph Taylor was allegedly sent by nan bullies aft her sister's death, showing a bloody doll pinch a noose astir its neck.

The girls' parents said nan photograph was taken months before Aubreigh's decease and wasn't designed to mock her.

Army of trolls goes aft nan 'bullies' 

Wyatt steadily attracted a societal media pursuing pinch regular posts and videos memorializing her girl and talking astir nan bullying.

Her family tried to move connected pinch their lives and her posts shifted towards advocating teenage intelligence health. 

Then past period she posted a video of herself discovering notes Aubreigh near for her family that went unnoticed for almost a year.

The notes were addressed to Heather, Taylor, her small relative Ryker, Heather's relative Jeff Wyatt, and 1 for nan family collectively.

Wyatt's earthy condolences astatine discovering nan notes arsenic she filmed herself combing done a container of Aubreigh's things while moving location was watched 40 cardinal times.

But nan video going viral and boosting Wyatt's TikTok fans supra 900,000 created an service of obsessive followers hellbent connected justice.

Despite Wyatt ne'er straight identifying nan alleged bullies, location were capable breadcrumbs for them to follow.

Within days, nan identities of each 4 girls and their families were splashed crossed societal media on pinch abusive messages targeting them.

'We will move your world upside down, pain it down and make your life a surviving hell,' 1 station connected a Facebook group read.

Threats were sent to nan girls and their families, 1 of their addresses posted, and a petition to occurrence 1 of their fathers from his schoolhouse territory position amassed much than 200,000 signatures.

'Instead of taking action he ignored nan problem and fto it proceed this man needs to person his powerfulness taken away!' nan petition read, successful part.

The immense mostly of nan mob that formed online had thing to do with Aubreigh aliases her family, and were not among nan town's astir 20,000 locals.

Wyatt is gagged by nan court 

Faced pinch an avalanche of maltreatment from astir nan US and beyond, nan parents of nan 4 girls demanded an injunction against Wyatt.

Jackson County Chancery Court Judge Mark Maples connected July 1 ordered Wyatt to temporarily return down her TikTok and cease posting astir nan lawsuit connected societal media.

The emergency injunction was sealed but quickly leaked online wherever it was wide shared.

The tribunal bid was 'after considering [the arguments] and erring connected nan broadside of be aware to protect nan insignificant children progressive successful nan case', it explained.

Wyatt complied pinch nan order, leaving her Instagram up pinch each applicable posts removed, and created a caller TikTok to explicate nan situation.

'My superior Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok accounts had to beryllium deleted owed to nan ample magnitude of attraction they received,' she wrote.

'At this time, however, I americium not permitted to talk thing that pertains to nan Aubs' case.'

Other posts stressed nan business was temporary, thanked her followers for their support, and encouraged them to constitute to nan Mississippi politician and 'reach whoever you tin to make this right'.

Wyatt's followers reacted pinch fury and declared 'she can't but I can'.

'Her family deserves justness that they didn't person and still person not received. dispersed consciousness stock and repost this conscionable to dispersed immoderate consciousness and bring immoderate ray to this horrible story,' 1 wrote.

'This family can't moreover person closure because moreover successful decease her babe is still being bullied and nan ineligible strategy is conscionable a joke astatine this point.'

Another added: 'They person told this female that she tin not SPEAK for her child. What acold injustice is that? 

'She has already mislaid nan life of her baby, a life she GAVE life too- and now they want to show her she is nary longer allowed to conflict for her baby. 

'When does a mother, aliases a father, ever extremity fighting for their child. Ever extremity SPEAKING for their child.'

Maples will clasp different proceeding connected July 18 to determine if nan bid should enactment successful place. 

'Bullies' parents return ineligible action

A time aft nan injunction was ordered, nan parents of nan 4 girls sued Wyatt for defamation, claiming her posts exposed them to terrifying threats.

'The plaintiff insignificant children person had to unrecorded successful regular fearfulness that thing whitethorn hap to immoderate of them, their family, aliases their friends,' it read.

The title accused Wyatt of committing slander, defamation, and negligence against nan girls pinch malice by falsely calling them bullies.

They claimed Aubreigh wasn't bullied and took her ain life for different reasons, noting she was connected antidepressants and 'had antecedently attempted termination and did not person nan due aesculapian attention'.

The suit claimed nan girls 'have been receiving insulting and revolting messages from astir nan world attacking them, calling them vulgar names, sexualizing them, etc.

'These young ladies WERE IN THE 8TH GRADE!!'

The parents' lawyers claimed nan maltreatment was 'a nonstop and proximate origin of nan false, defamatory and slanderous societal media posts of nan defendant, Heather Wyatt'.

Wyatt maintains her posts were to raise consciousness of teenage intelligence wellness struggles, and claimed to person prevented galore younker suicides.

But nan parents claimed successful their suit she was conscionable trying to drum up 'notoriety, clicks and money' arsenic nan gross from her societal media accounts was wished by really galore followers, views, and comments she got.

The suit claimed Wyatt was told by constabulary successful February that her claims that Aubreigh was bullied were 'unsubstantiated', but continued to insist she was - and moreover complained she couldn't get 'justice'.

Despite not naming nan girls, Wyatt said anyone who wanted to cognize could inquire her daughter, nan suit claimed.

The suit demanded damages to salary for therapy and different aesculapian bills for nan girls to woody pinch nan affectional distress nan maltreatment caused them, on pinch punitive damages and ineligible fees.

Wyatt was allowed to time off a GoFundMe page online truthful agelong arsenic it didn't talk nan case, and it has raised much than $105,000 from 4,000 donors, to salary her ineligible fees.