Jocelyn Walters' family sues school district and board claiming 14-year-old was bullied into suicide

A New Jersey bully brutally told friends to 'stop making a contention retired of it' aft they drove a chap student to suicide, a suit has claimed.

Jocelyn Walters, 14, tragically took her ain life successful September 2022 aft enduring months of bullying and abuse, astatine nan hands of girls her parents opportunity were erstwhile her friends. 

Her parents Fred and Solangie Walters person since revenge a suit against a number of defendants including her teachers, nurses and schoolhouse district, alleging they grounded to clamp down connected nan bullying and forestall nan tragedy. 

In their lawsuit, they allege that 1 woman named only arsenic J.M. led nan bullying, and included sickening matter messages she sent earlier Jocelyn's suicide. 

This included 1 connected nan time Jocelyn was hospitalized pursuing a erstwhile grounded termination attempt, wherever J.M. callously told a group: 'I'm honestly going to effort and support instigating her.' 

The Walters opportunity Jocelyn took her ain life aft an 'extended and persistent shape of harassment, intimidation, bullying and maltreatment directed against her', which they declare nan defendants 'did nothing' to stop. 

Alongside nan named defendants, nan Walters' suit besides lists 10 John and Jane Does who straight 'harassed, intimidated, bullied and/or different abused Jocelyn' earlier her death. 

They claimed nan girls viciously formed Jocelyn retired of group chats and isolated her, and alleged that connected nan time she died, J.M. told nan group: 'She died extremity making contention astir it.'' 

Jocelyn's parents said they are still haunted by their daughter's passing, and said that erstwhile nan teen joined precocious schoolhouse successful 2021, she was a celebrated and diversion woman who had ambitions to go a lawyer. 

'Jocelyn was nan student that you wanted. She was nan teammate that you wanted. The subordinate that you wanted. She was ever there. First 1 connected nan field. Last 1 off,' Fred told Fox News. 

A GoFundMe from nan clip that Jocelyn passed distant described her arsenic a euphony person who was a immense instrumentality of 'The Smashing Pumpkins', and was 'beautiful wrong and out.' 

But during that schoolhouse year, Fred said his girl was welcomed into a friend group only for them to brutally trim her retired and bully her, some successful personification and online. 

The suit singles retired 1 person, named only arsenic J.M., who Jocelyn's parents opportunity befriended her earlier casting her retired and attempting to isolate her from others astatine school. 

They claimed J.M. would taunt Jocelyn connected societal media, stock her individual accusation online, footwear her retired of group chats, and harvest her retired of group pictures connected societal media. 

Walters' suit alleges that this was a 'repeated shape of abuse', but schoolhouse officials did thing contempt 'ongoing and repeated complaints' from Jocelyn's family to nan schoolhouse committee and district. 

'The High School, nan Board/District and nan Board Defendants were alert of this behaviour and did thing to protect Jocelyn from harm,' nan title adds. 

Fred told Fox News that erstwhile his girl joined precocious school, she made friends pinch J.M., who lured her into nan group by confessing backstage things to her and bringing her into her circle. 

'This group of kids really slept successful my location betwixt Christmas and New Year's,' he continued. 

'(But) location successful January, from what I understand, location mightiness person been immoderate benignant of matter exchange… successful a group chat, and past this woman conscionable seemed to want to push her out. 

'And what I understood before, and moreover much truthful after, was this seemed to beryllium this girl's M.O.' 

Jocelyn first attempted termination successful March 2022, but survived nan effort and was hospitalized. 

Fred said that moreover while Jocelyn was recovering successful hospital, J.M. goaded others astatine her schoolhouse into targeting her again, and appeared to admit that nan bullying landed her successful nan ICU arsenic she questioned 'I wonderment if she's going to do thing back.' 

'I’m honestly going to effort and support instigating her until she really does thing to maine that I tin get her successful problem for,' nan matter added, according to nan lawsuit. 

In August 2022, nan period earlier Jocelyn's death, nan suit claims a caregiver astatine a intelligence wellness session 'negligently doubled Jocelyn’s antidepressant medicine without knowing nan dosage she was taking.' 

It adds that nan caregiver besides 'failed to notify Jocelyn's parents of her emergent condition.' 

Fred said that nan time his girl committed suicide, he opened her chamber doorway to find her deceased, and felt that nan summation successful medicine 'was a very, very large component' to nan tragedy.  

On nan time earlier and nan time of Jocelyn's death, nan suit claims she visited nan schoolhouse nurse, who past 'failed to return due action fixed Jocelyn’s history and further grounded to alert Jocelyn’s parents of this/these visits.' 

'Hours later, connected September 9, 2022, Jocelyn took her ain life,' nan suit states.

'Immediately thereafter, J.M. texted nan pursuing regarding Jocelyn’s death: "[s]he died extremity making contention astir it."'

Although Middletown High School North told Jocelyn's parents it was investigating allegations she whitethorn person been nan unfortunate of bullying, it subsequently sent a missive brushing it off. 

'After observant information of grounds yielded from nan investigation, nan District did not find immoderate grounds that Jocelyn was nan target of nan investigated enactment of harassment, intimidation, aliases bullying,' nan missive states. 

Fox News reported that nan schoolhouse committee and schoolhouse territory person a argumentation of not commenting connected pending litigation.