16-Year-Old Girl Commits Suicide After Online Bullies Ask 'Can You Kill Yourself Already?'

Dec. 12 2012, Published 9:30 a.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
A teenage girl was so terribly tormented by online bullies that she was driven to suicide on Sunday after one cold-hearted commenter asked, "Why don't you kill yourself already?"
Jessica Laney, 16, of Hudson, Florida, was a popular soccer-playing high schooler in her real-life, but when she got home to the privacy of her computer she had a busy social media alter-ego on sites such as Tumblr, and Ask.fm, where people can ask questions and make anonymous comments, reported ABCActionNews.com.
The student at Fivay High School bantered with other users on the site under the name Jessica Marieee1, and while many posts were about boys, songs and make-up, some took on a much more sinister tone, calling her fat and a loser.
One visitor asked her, "Can you kill yourself already?" and another commented "nobody even cares about you."
While many of her real friends believe that the taunts from Internet trolls are to blame for Jessica's death by hanging, an official from the Pasco Count