10-Year-Old Girl Who Fell from Building Committed Suicide
November 12, 2009 by Morbid
Honolulu, Hawaii – Residents of a Makiki apartment building heard the screams of a woman early Monday morning. “We heard her scream, a woman’s voice,” said apartment resident Clarita Antonio. “When my great-grandson said what’s that somebody fall down.” Upon investigating, they found the body of a 10-year-old girl laying broken in a grassy area of the apartments a few feet from a seldom-used stairwell. She had fallen from the fifth or fourth floor. She was rushed to the hospital but died shortly afterward from multiple internal injuries. On Wednesday, the city Department of the Medical Examiner has concluded that the girl took her own life. Investigators have found a suicide note but have not revealed the contents. Her father is the manager of the 11-story building and the girl has a younger sibling. Her parents were home at the time of the incident. I don’t know about any of you, but it is hard enough for me to wrap my brain around a 10-year-old girl coming to the conclusion that suicide – by jumping no less – was her only option. ClickClick reviews
on for video from the report of her death, but before the suicide conclusion had been ruled.
7:57 am on November 12th, 2009
This breaks my heart! That’s my daughter’s age! If there’s any update on why do please post. What could make a 10yr old child kill herself???
10:30 am on November 12th, 2009
I am having a hard time believing this was a suicide. One had to be in a great deal of emotional anguish to something like this.
10:36 am on November 12th, 2009
My cynical mind is telling me someone was molesting her. If it turns out this is in fact what caused her to do this then the perp should be flung from the same window.
10:39 am on November 12th, 2009
Well, she left a note. If she was being molested, we will find out soon enough.
11:14 am on November 12th, 2009
rest well now sweet baby….. : (
1:22 pm on November 12th, 2009
I read an article recently where an EIGHT yr old committed suicide & it actually had to do w/ depression. WHY a child would have depression that severe I have no idea….. but honestly, I think suicide would mean living what you’re living is worse than death. Maybe there was severe abuse in the home.
1:49 pm on November 12th, 2009
I only hope the love ones and friends in her life can go on. What a terrible tragedy or is there a word worse than tragedy because I’m not sure how else to explain it.
2:04 pm on November 12th, 2009
Something just doesn’t seem right about this one. If she truly wanted to kill herself why didn’t she jump off the top to guarantee success? Did she just want to injure herself but failed? Did someone else harm her and throw her out the window to make it look like a suicide? I’m interested to hear the developments on this one.
6:04 pm on November 12th, 2009
My first thought was a 10 year old is incapable of understanding the absouluteness of mortality. I know I didn’t.
8:46 pm on November 12th, 2009
Unfortunately this doesn’t surprise me. I started volunteering at a crisis & suicide prevention hotline a few months ago. It’d take a lot to surprise me when it comes to suicide, and the people who commit it or attempt to commit it.
2:50 am on November 13th, 2009
I’m blown away..this building is about five minutes away from me. And I didnt even know. So terribly sad. Last year a 16 year old girl in the school Im employed at jumped to her death from a pedestarian overpass into busy freeway traffic. I dont get it..ten years old.
10:20 pm on November 13th, 2009
The first time I *remember* injuring myself I was less than six. I wouldn’t be diagnosed with clinical depression for over 10 years. It’s not as common, but it really can start this young. Chances are, something awful was going on in her life, but that may not be the case. Suicide can also be a terrible, swift, impulsive thing, especially in someone who may not fully understand the finality of it. Jumping is both very easy (in that it doesn’t require you to actively injure yourself), hard to back down from, and very present in the media. Not just fictional, either, jumpers always draw big press, and you do notice these things that young.
Also, I remember being that age. I have a niece that age. Tween girls can be catty, calculating, capricious little bitches. They don’t fully know what they are doing, perhaps, but the impact can be absolutely devastating. An adult might be able to laugh off that kind of pettiness, but when you’re that age it feels like your whole damn life is over.
Whatever it was, I feel for her, and for her loved ones. This one hits home.
Just for the record, I’m only bringing up my personal history because it’s relevant to the discussion and I can speak to the emergence of mental illness at a young age. It’s been years since my last SI, I have plenty of support both personal and professional, and I’m certainly not fishing for sympathy from you guys. Mostly, I’m getting towards drunk and approaching an oversharing kinda mood.
I hope we can find some updates on this. Best I can hope for is that she found peace from the internal or external demons she was facing. Poor thing.
2:56 am on November 14th, 2009
@unraveled bear:
Actually, thanks for your story. It can’t be said enough that there is no “too young” for illness, mental or otherwise. I had anxiety and depression when I was young, starting around the time I started school. I’d say I was nervous, and no one listened because I was too young. I was also “too young to have headaches” when I was six, but luckily my family STFU when an x-ray showed that my sinuses were blocked.
I wish that this child could have found help before it was too late. She was my youngest daughter’s age, and I can’t imagine what this little girl must have been going through to take this route.
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