Audrie Pott's Parents Plan To Sue Suicide Daughter's Alleged Rapists
April 15 2013, Published 8:21 p.m. ET
The parents of Audrie Pott, the 15-year-old California girl who committed suicide last year after allegedly being raped by three friends at a party, spoke for the first time Monday.
"There is absolutely no doubt as to the reason she took her life," her stepmother Lisa, said, as she shared Audrie's final Facebook posts, "My life is ruined...I am in hell...The whole school knows...My life is over..."
Three teen boys were arrested last week and charged with sexual battery for allegedly assaulting Pott at a sleepover party last fall.
In a scenario with striking similarities to the infamous Steubenville rape case, Audrie's family admitted that Pott was intoxicated and passed out during the alleged assault and that she only learned of it when she saw a photo from that night that had been spread via social media.