9 YEAR-OLD GIRL COMMITS SUICIDE BECAUSE MOM HAD ANOTHER BABY
The 9-year-old Bronx girl who cops suspect strangled herself with a
shower curtain in an apparent suicide has been identified as Justice
Williams.
Justice’s mother made the horrific discovery at the family’s home around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, police said. The girl was declared dead at Jacobi Hospital 12 minutes later. The mother, Tamiqua Torres, had written on her personal blog that her daughter was unhappy about becoming a big sister.
“We were as happy as happy could be until one day my then 8 year old woke up and decided that she wasn’t exactly thrilled about being a Big Sister,” Torres wrote. The girl told family members she “wanted to die” when she learned her mom was pregnant — prompting her mother to get her professional help, according to sources.
Justice’s mother made the horrific discovery at the family’s home around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, police said. The girl was declared dead at Jacobi Hospital 12 minutes later. The mother, Tamiqua Torres, had written on her personal blog that her daughter was unhappy about becoming a big sister.
“We were as happy as happy could be until one day my then 8 year old woke up and decided that she wasn’t exactly thrilled about being a Big Sister,” Torres wrote. The girl told family members she “wanted to die” when she learned her mom was pregnant — prompting her mother to get her professional help, according to sources.
Torres, 31, decided to check on the 9-year-old girl Sunday because she
was taking too long in the shower, according to police sources.
She walked in and found her daughter motionless, with a white cloth
around her neck hanging from the metal shower frame door, sources said.
The girl had recently gone to a therapist for help dealing with the
birth of a new half-brother, sources said.
Torres and her new husband, Raymond Torres, had a baby about eight
months ago.
Raymond Torres was Justice’s stepfather, police sources
said. Torres talked openly about her daughter’s struggle on the
parenting blog she started after getting married and discovering she was
pregnant. She said it was hard for Justice to think about sharing
attention after always being an only child.
By the time the new baby arrived last August, Justice’s family believed
she’d adjusted and was ready to bond with her little brother, Torres
wrote. “Fast forward to August when he arrived and she was happy and
reassured that although her world has forever changed she loves him more
than she thought she would. The road my family and I traveled to get
where we are now was not smooth we faced many road bumps but over came
them as a stronger family unit than I imagined us to be,” Torres said in
her January blog post.
The family was stunned by the 9-year-old’s tragic death, which cops believe was a suicide. She did well at school and never mentioned any type of bullying experience, police sources said. Michael Millan, 20, whose girlfriend lives on the first floor of the building where it happened, was walking back from the drugstore when he saw the police cars and the little girl’s distraught mother holding a baby.
“I just saw the mom and the baby. She was frantic. All you heard was them talking to each other, saying she was in cardiac arrest. She looked panicked. It looked she did all her crying by the time we got here. The officers told us to move, get out the way. Then we stayed inside until a cop knocked on our door,” he said.
Nelly Dominguez, 40, who lives across the street, watched from her window as first responders tried to revive the little girl. “I saw them pushing on her heart,” she said. “Oh my God, it’s so sad. Then more detectives came and went in the house.” If Justice’s death is ruled a suicide, she will be the second girl to have taken her life in the Bronx in less than a year.
Wilnery Polanco-Uben, 11, killed herself last May at her family’s apartment after skipping school and sending suicidal texts to friends, authorities said. She hanged herself from a bedroom door.
The Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics show fewer than one in 100,000 children ages 10 to 14 commit suicide, although the number sharply rises among older teens and young adults. No one under the age of 15 committed suicide in the city in 2007 or 2008, statistics show.
SOURCE: NYD
The family was stunned by the 9-year-old’s tragic death, which cops believe was a suicide. She did well at school and never mentioned any type of bullying experience, police sources said. Michael Millan, 20, whose girlfriend lives on the first floor of the building where it happened, was walking back from the drugstore when he saw the police cars and the little girl’s distraught mother holding a baby.
“I just saw the mom and the baby. She was frantic. All you heard was them talking to each other, saying she was in cardiac arrest. She looked panicked. It looked she did all her crying by the time we got here. The officers told us to move, get out the way. Then we stayed inside until a cop knocked on our door,” he said.
Nelly Dominguez, 40, who lives across the street, watched from her window as first responders tried to revive the little girl. “I saw them pushing on her heart,” she said. “Oh my God, it’s so sad. Then more detectives came and went in the house.” If Justice’s death is ruled a suicide, she will be the second girl to have taken her life in the Bronx in less than a year.
Wilnery Polanco-Uben, 11, killed herself last May at her family’s apartment after skipping school and sending suicidal texts to friends, authorities said. She hanged herself from a bedroom door.
The Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics show fewer than one in 100,000 children ages 10 to 14 commit suicide, although the number sharply rises among older teens and young adults. No one under the age of 15 committed suicide in the city in 2007 or 2008, statistics show.
SOURCE: NYD
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