In Minnesota, bullying led two eighth-grade girls—Haylee Fentress and Paige Moravetz—to fulfill a suicide pact, leaving behind suicide notes for their families, according to ABC News.
Fentress’ aunt, Robin Settle, said that the girl had complained to her family that she felt alienated and bullied. “She was made fun of for being overweight, her red hair,” Settle said. “She posted on my [Facebook] wall that she really wanted to come back [to Indiana} … that the people were mean and cruel and she didn’t fit in.”
Moravetz and Fentress became fast friends, with Moravetz teaching Fentress to skate; in fact, the two were so close that Fentress had hyphenated her last name on Facebook with “Moravetz.” Fentress was recently expelled from school for defending Moravetz during a school scuffle.