Felicia LoAlbo-Melendez, an 11-year-old girl from New Jersey, attempted suicide in a school restroom on February 6 due to bullying. She was discovered by another student and was brought to a neighboring hospital in Philadelphia, where she died two days later.
Felicia’s death happened just two weeks after the end of her father, New Jersey Transit Police Detective Alexis Melendez, from pancreatic cancer. It also happened just a few days after she reported bullying to school administrators; regrettably, her appeals for aid were swept under the rug and mostly ignored.
