Photo: Courtesy Audrie Pott Foundation. i fucking hate people. With Audrie still sprawled out on the bed and unresponsive, the boys allegedly fingered her and took pictures on their phones. This powerful doc chronicles the dismally unjust aftermaths of two recent juvenile sexual-assault cases in the U.S. By Dennis Harvey. They dont respect personal-space boundaries.. Another girl loudly pointed out in class that Audrie had been cutting herself, and the teenager burst out crying. Audries story swept across the country Friday, echoing recent cases in Nova Scotia, Canada, and Steubenville, Ohio, involving drinking, sexual assault and online photos. 17 2013, Updated 12:39 a.m. At some point, Mary returned to find Audrie in her underwear and put a blanket over her, then left the room again. There was no note, nothing to explain why her popular and pretty daughter had done it. She went out the following weekend and joined a posse of girls, even stopping in at the home of one of the three boys who had allegedly abused her the weekend before. It would have been so hard for Audrie to go back to school. On the Facebook page for the Audrie Pott Foundation, it explains, "Audrie touched the lives of everyone she met, with her gorgeous smile and her vivacious, infectious laugh. The brown-eyed girl who loved horses, art and pranks would never breathe on her own again. ', On top of that, for the past few years, Audrie had a particularly tortured relationship with her body. JOE: Fucking Henry AUDRIE: i dont remeber anything about that. 'She had been, literally, the best person you could meet always honest and trustworthy,' Kathy told Rolling Stone. They want the boys to like them, says Amanda. Joe and Ron remained at Saratoga. When Sheila drove Audrie to Saras, she assumed the girls would be spending the evening in their jammies in front of the television, or giggling over ice cream and Facebook. 'I promise it wasn't me.'. I never saw, I had just heard about times she had gotten drunk, says Kathy. Rape stats may be no higher than in years past, but the numbers are as shocking as ever. Pott was forced to endure taunts on Facebook, with classmates sending her messages saying things like, "u were one horny mofo," according to Rolling Stone. . In the wake of Audries death, Saratoga police agreed with school administrators to wait until the following week, September 17th, to initiate an investigation to allow students, friends and staff to mourn and grieve.. FILE - In this Thursday, May 23, 2013, file photo, Sheila Pott poses with a portrait of her daughter Audrie in Los Altos, Calif. Audrie Pott committed suicide in September 2012 after being . Pictures of the assault were posted online, accompanying bullying. In the end, whether the pictures really went viral or not is irrelevant. ", "With no assault, with no cyberbullying, Audrie is in art class right now," he said. The problem is systemic. At dinnertime, Sheila stood beside her and noticed a green strip of ink on her daughters cleavage. The case is especially significant to South Bay authorities, who were criticized for not filing charges in 2007 against members of the De Anza College baseball team accused of gang-raping an extremely intoxicated teenage girl at a house party in San Jose. Police found new pictures of other nude teen girls on some of their phones, prompting them to add on new charges in July. Her father and stepmother, Lisa, thought she was basically a happy kid, but Audries friends got earfuls about how she fought with her stepmom. I ruined my life and I dont even remember how.. Change source. (KNTV). SAN JOSE Audrie Pott thought everybody at her high school knew what happened that night. This story is from the September 26th, 2013 issue of Rolling Stone. 'My life is overI ruined my life and I don't even remember how,' Audrie said to a classmate in the days following the incident. The boys are just so stupid. Be there for your friends., Audrie Pott suicide: Grim picture of Saratoga, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Get to know all 17 Denver mayor candidates , Audrie Pott suicide: Grim picture of Saratoga teens final online cries of despair, Denver airport CEO Phil Washington tangles with Sen. 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This piece of legislation is meant to give us an opening to tell young people in middle school and high school that this is a crime, says Rosen. Diane Rosenfeld, director of the Gender Violence Program at Harvard Law School, says such incidents are far more common than just those that wind up in court or involve suicide. April 15, 2013 12 AM PT. Then Kathy Atabakhsh, one of her best friends, tore into her on the school quad, accusing her of drinking, of forgetting who she was, of becoming a different person. She wanted, says her mother, to be just like the superskinny Asian girls in her circle., Her friends knew Audrie had body-image issues. [6] A few kids had stolen rum, and an adult had bought them vodka at a liquor shop. Sheila Pott rushed to check her daughters cellphone, emails, texts and Facebook page. One of Audries friends from middle school was overheard telling another student, Shut down your Facebooks, cops are looking. Another friend had even acknowledged in a Facebook message to Audrie before she died that he didnt want to discuss it further on Facebook presumably because there would be a record. She thought about Audries strange silence on the day after a sleepover the weekend before. Audrie was already stumbling and incoherent, taking shots and making out with different boys on the living-room couch. I dont know why they would think it would be OK.. She had been, literally, the best person you could meet always honest and trustworthy, Kathy says, recalling the episode almost a year later. A year later, its almost impossible to gauge exactly how far the pictures of Audrie got and how many people saw them. And I was so upset that she had changed. Loss: Audrie Pott, 15, killed herself last year after she was allegedly sexually assaulted at a party. The student-newspaper editor Sam Liu said there is a lot of sympathy for the Potts, but also tons of rumors that Audrie had family problems that provoked her suicide. [10], Three teenage boys admitted in juvenile court to sexually assaulting and possessing photos of Audrie Pott, both felonies. Delete it. Most disturbing is the attempt to link Audreys suicide to the specific actions of these three boys, according to the statement from Eric Geffon, Alan Lagod and Benjamin Williams. In another, she speaks with another of the alleged assaulters. Photo via Facebook. We put resources into the De Anza case and were frustrated that it couldnt be prosecuted, said Smith, the sheriff, explaining the length of the Saratoga investigation. Updated: 12:08 PM PDT Mar 23, 2015. Pott went to Saratoga High School, pictured. If there is a sleepover, one of the boys might put whipped cream on someones hand. (Audrie Pott Foundation via Facebook). Though this won her attention from boys, it also made her morbidly self-conscious. In 2009, Jill Naber, a freshman at Saratogas sister school, Los Gatos High School, committed suicide. On campus and around Saratoga on Friday, dozens of students declined to talk about whether they knew anything about what happened to Audrie. . In the car and all that day, Audrie was pensive and quiet. It was hard for her to hear that from a close friend.'. Audrie persevered. The family has also filed a suit against the Saratoga High School District, alleging that educators did not do enough to prevent the cyberbullying they claim led to their daughter's death. It started without bras, Kathy says. Half the people have seen her naked, half the people think shes a whore, and judge and bully her. The summer before her death, Audrie had started to change, moving away from the kids shed hung out with since middle school. Finally, how do you instill in impulse-driven teens of both sexes the knowledge that whatever they record on their phones and send can reach the entire world and stay public forever? I ruined my life and I don't even remember how. And the jaws drop, because right away, they think of the sex they had at a party last weekend, where everybody was wasted., Alone in the house she once shared with her only child, Sheila Pott pours herself another glass of chardonnay and wipes away tears that still well up regularly, eight months after Audries death. Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. They photographed themselves sexually assaulting her and, by the time she started her sophomore year at Saratoga High School two days later, scores of students had seen the images. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP). Sheila was used to her 15-year-old daughters moods and stopped pressing her. Audrie Pott, a student at Saratoga High School in Silicon Valley, hanged herself in her bathroom on Sept. 10, 2012, only a week after passing out drunk at a party where she said boys she had known for years took off her clothes, sexually assaulted her and took images of the attack on their phones. And they dont want them to think theyre not cool.. That night, Audrie again confronted Joe on Facebook, accusing him of sharing the photos. Apr 16, 2013, 8:17 AM. During freshman year, she became obsessed with the shape of her stomach and liked to wear too-small clothes to be more like her friends. In September 2012, Pott went to party with 10 other teenagers who were mostly drunk. The friends parents were out of town for the weekend, he said, and the teens had access to an unlocked liquor cabinet. The 15-year-old had . According to friends of Audries, sexting was epidemic. Her friend, identified only as Jane C., also helped her into the room, but could have left after. (Supplied)Triple j's Veronica & Lewis spoke with the co-director of Audrie and Daisy, San Francisco-based filmmaker Bonni Cohen.She explained that Daisy, like Audrie, had attempted . Audrie Pott, a student at Saratoga High School in Silicon Valley, hanged herself in her bathroom on Sept. 10, 2012, only a week after passing out drunk at a party where she said boys she had known for years took off her clothes, sexually assaulted her and took images of the attack on their phones. The photo went viral apparently shared electronically all the way down to schools in Fresno that played against the Los Gatos teams. In the aftermath of that tragedy, Los Gatos took steps to address the issue by launching counseling and educational outreach services for the problems teens run into with sexual images and technology. Three area attorneys representing the boys issued a statement in April saying in part that it was "disturbing" to link Pott's suicide to the three boys. Among her last words were, You have no idea what its like to be a girl.. Three California teen boys have been arrested and charged with the alleged sexual assault of their classmate while she was intoxicated and passed out at a . SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Awakening in a friend's bedroom after drinking too much at a sleepover, 15-year-old Audrie Pott looked down and realized she had been sexually assaulted and her attackers . After the party, where Pott drank alcohol-laced Gatorade, the teen woke up without her shorts on and with mocking comments written in marker all over her body. Two of the boys have admitted that the felony charges against them are true, according to sources close to the case, and they are awaiting sentencing which could range from community service or time in a juvenile-detention center. And then she found the haunting words of her beautiful, once-bubbly daughter: These guys did (expletive) to me while I was sleeping, read one message. The worst of the awful . The boys in her class would ridicule the girls about their bodies, while at the same time pressuring them to expose themselves for the camera. With no assault, with no cyberbullying, Audrie is in art class right now, Larry Pott said at the April news conference, choking back tears. And on Thursday, three 16-year-old boys were arrested in San Jose, Calif. for sexually assaulting 15-year-old Audrie Pott, who was also humiliated by online photos. 'As much as we strongly disagree with and are actively attempting to change the lenient privacy laws afforded to juveniles, even when they commit as here heinous acts on an unconscious minor, we cannot publicly comment on any aspect of any criminal proceedings involving these young men,' Robert Allard, an attorney for Lawrence and Sheila Pott - Audrie's parents - said in a statement to SFGate. The accused boys kept going to school, whispers died down. Lisa says she was a disciplinarian who put a tracking app on Audries phone and wouldnt let her miss school, whereas her mother was more lenient. . If the Saratoga Falcons did not regularly field a winning football team, theres consolation in the fact that each graduating class has propelled dozens of kids into Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Berkeley. Almost immediately after Pott's 15-year-old daughter, Audrie, was sexually assaulted at a party in Silicon Valley, California, her assailants - teenage classmates - spread photos of the . 'I'm sorry about the marker,' he added of the drawings that covered her body. The popular cheerleader hanged herself after a topless selfie circulated. The Pott family is trying to push for stricter cyber-bullying laws. From Instagram to Snapchat to texting, young people with raging hormones and low impulse control are passing around what amounts to child pornography. Audrie had considered those boys her friends. "I swear to god if u still have those pictures ill kill you (sic)" she writes to one. 'And I was so upset that she had changed. Her choice: bra. On the other side, there are people who think the boys are guilty of a stupid but basically innocent prank and that Audries suicide had other causes. Most people know rape is not OK, she says. Or I would make her eat.. A curvaceous sophomore at Saratoga . 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I could sue The New York Times for invading my privacy or Rolling Stone for defaming me, Andrews says. At lunchtime, Audrie texted her mom at work: Mom, please pick me up. Sheila Pott, a mortgage-loan officer, asked why and whether Audrie couldnt wait for her to finish a business meeting. Sheila Pott poses with a portrait of her daughter Audrie in Los Altos, Calif., ON May 23, 2013. ASB president Sasan Sadaat agreed that the photos were far less widespread than originally claimed. On Friday, Robinson deferred comment to the superintendent of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District. The three teenage boys who authorities say drove 15-year-old Audrie Pott to hang herself in 2012 have admitted to sexually assaulting the girl - and taking photographs of the humiliating ordeal - eight days before she took her own life. And those cases, if you have sex, you can go to jail. They went to lunch at a restaurant and Audrie wouldnt eat. The Saratoga Falcon student newspaper reported approximately 10 students saw an image of her defiled body. He released a statement reading: 'The sole issue in this case is the callous behavior of the suspects which directly led to Audrie's unnecessary death. Whats that? she asked. Courtesy of . Savannah went public with their names after that, nearly earning herself a contempt-of-court citation because of the juvenile-court privacy regulations, but ultimately influenced the court to rule for the boys to have a misdemeanor on their records for life. Pott's parents also filed a lawsuit against the three teenagers, and in July 2013 they added a fifteen-year-old girl as a defendant in the suit, alleging she was present during the assault and later lied about it to help cover it up. . When they arrested the boys, police seized new phones and other electronic gadgetry their parents had bought to replace what authorities took in the fall. SARATOGA (KCBS) -- Journalists with Saratoga High School's newspaper who questioned reports that semi-nude photos of teen Audrie Pott had gone 'viral' before her suicide received a Society of . Larry Pott said in an emotional press conference last April that the boys' actions were nothing short of "disgusting. . Amanda couldnt give her any clues, other than to say shed seemed very bombed. . Then things went quiet. To cope with the shock of Audries death, Saratoga students arranged a memorial day on which everyone was supposed to wear teal, Audries favorite color. And theres no point in pulling a prank unless you share it. Anderson said parents and educators need to talk to younger boys about informed consent. A sexual assault on an unconscious victim is not considered forcible. She grabbed the first thing she could find to jimmy the lock the tiny metal rod at the end of her phones earplug and jammed it into the doorknob. O n the last day of her life, Audrie Pott walked through a crucible of teenage torment. One of my best friends hates me. The students who talked to Rolling Stone were much like the parents divided into two factions about the boys relative guilt. She told friends she had cut herself on a vase. Their records will be sealed when they turn 18. According to Audries friends, one of the three boys eventually arrested for the assault, Joe, was a leader of the teasing pack in middle school and especially sadistic. 'Since this lawsuit was filed, it has become quite clear to us that the suspects refuse to accept responsibility or show remorse for their actions.'. When she woke up the next morning, Audrie didnt know how shed gotten into the bedroom or where her clothes were. She was engaged in a frantic attempt to discover what had happened to her body. 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