{"id":51385,"date":"2015-06-07T00:53:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T16:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51385"},"modified":"2015-06-07T00:53:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T16:53:13","slug":"fil-am-teen-commits-suicide-days-after-shamed-by-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/07\/fil-am-teen-commits-suicide-days-after-shamed-by-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Fil-Am teen commits suicide days after shamed by father"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51386\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51386\" style=\"width: 634px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/295BEAE300000578-0-image-m-34_1433480954734.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51386\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/295BEAE300000578-0-image-m-34_1433480954734.jpg\" alt=\"Filipino-American Izabel Laxamana with her long black hair before the shaming video (Photo from The Independent)\" width=\"634\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/295BEAE300000578-0-image-m-34_1433480954734.jpg 634w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/295BEAE300000578-0-image-m-34_1433480954734-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/295BEAE300000578-0-image-m-34_1433480954734-600x425.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filipino-American Izabel Laxamana with her long black hair before the shaming video (Photo from The Independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A few days after being shamed by father on social media, Filipino-American Izabel Laxamana killed herself by jumping off a bridge in Tacoma, Washington on May 29 at 5pm.<\/p>\n<p>Laxamana\u2019s father cut off her long black hair as a punishment for \u2018getting messed up.\u2019 Her father then taped the incident and shared it online.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-year-old girl was unable to cope with the humiliation. While passing at the South 48th Street overpass bridge in Tacoma on board her grandmother\u2019s car, she exited the vehicle, climbed over the railing and jumped into Interstate 5 freeway below. Despite being taken to a nearby Seattle hospital, she died the next day after succumbing to her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Laxamana\u2019s death being declared as a suicide, several online commentators wanted her father held responsible for the death. The police, however, stated that there was no evidence that he committed a crime.<\/p>\n<p>Upon hearing the said news, the teenager\u2019s friends at Giaudrone Middle School expressed their shock and grief in social media.<\/p>\n<p>Still in pain, Laxamana\u2019s mother requested for privacy as their family mourns for her death. The troubled teenager left letters to her family before she committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Loretta Cool, a spokeswoman for the Tacoma Police Department believed that Laxamana had other reasons for committing suicide aside from the shaming video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIzabel was a 13-year-old who made a couple of bad decisions and then made one really bad one\u2026 This was her way of apologising to everyone,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKids don\u2019t realize the permanence of suicide\u2026 They play video games and the next day everything\u2019s all right. But with this, they don\u2019t know how many people are going to be affected,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days after being shamed by father on social media, Filipino-American Izabel Laxamana killed herself by jumping off a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":51386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}