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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Madeline Sherratt

School district confirms ICE-related bullying in case of 11-year-old girl who took her own life

A Texas school district has confirmed that 11-year-old Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, who devastatingly took her own life earlier this month, received a torrent of ICE-related abuse from fellow students.

Carranza died on February 8 after spending five days being treated in a Dallas hospital due to an undisclosed injury. Her tragic death came after she was taunted with deportation threats for weeks by sixth-grade classmates at Gainesville Intermediate School, around 70 miles north of Dallas, her grieving mother Marbella Carranza revealed earlier this month.

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