“My daughter Catherine Daisy Coleman took her own life last night. These words are those of Melinda Coleman, mother of Daisy Coleman, posted this August 5 on Facebook. The 23-year-old victim ended her life on Tuesday evening according to the American site Deadline . The young woman is known to have participated in the documentary Audrie & Daisy , portraying the struggle of two teenage girls sexually assaulted, humiliated and harassed online. The film was screened in January 2016 at the Sundance Film Festival and then uploaded to Netflix the same year.
“She was my best friend and a wonderful daughter,” her mother wrote in her Facebook post. She never got over what those boys did to her, and it's completely unfair. My little girl is gone. "
Figure in the fight against sexual assault
In January 2012, the then 14-year-old woman explained that she was raped during a night out with friends in Maryville, Missouri. His assault is filmed by another boy present that evening. She is then abandoned in the cold, dressed in a simple T-shirt. Her alleged assailant, Matthew Barnett, grandson of a former Republican Party official, is given a two-year suspended prison sentence for endangering the life of a minor, but is not charged with rape.
Daisy Coleman subsequently founded SafeBAE, an association working for victims of rape and sexual assault in middle and high school. “She fought longer and harder than we'll ever know. We want to remain attentive to all the young people who admired it, ”he said in a press release from the organization.
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