14 year old Destiny and her parents moved to a
new city and she started a new school. She was
ready to make new friends and have her
classmates like her but unfortunately, that didn't
happen. Her friends didn't like that she was
pretty so they got jealous and she became the
target of a group of about half a dozen girls, and
endless bullying ensued. It escalated to online
bullying where they would grab nude photos of
random girls and spread it amongst their
friends and claim the nudes were of Destiny's.
They bullied her so bad that she couldn't take it
anymore and she hung herself in her room
where her father found her.
Read what her friend Natasha Fisher wrote
about her:
On Wednesday morning was just like any
other morning I went on about my day
until my phone rang. I can't explain the
excitement that I felt seeing my friend's
name pop up on the screen. What was
she doing today I wondered.... What
were we going to do that night? No kids
sounds exciting to me. Little did I know
when I answer that phone call my best
friends life had already been changed
forever. Stephanie (my best friend) and
Kurtis Clark are the parents to the most
beautiful little girl, Destiny Gelsson, that
had just turned 14 in February 2nd.
She was beautiful and talented let me tell
you that girl was sassy in the best
possible way. The Clarks had moved 2
Warrenton from Wentzville just this
school year. They had just bought their
first dream house. Destiny has always
been a lovable child but with time
unfortunately her beauty and
compassion was her curse. With good
comes evil found in ever situation.
There of course were a group of girls at
the new school, Black Hawk Middle
School, that were jealous of her.
So instead of being accepting of how
blessed they were to know someone like
her... their hatred and jealously caused
them to shun her and do everything they
could to make her life unbearable. From
name calling to downloading some
random persons private parts, printing
them off and writing Destiny's name
above the picture.
I know first hand how ruthless they were
I witnessed her tears due to her bullies.
As well as my friends struggle to try and
better the situation. The months went by
and away went her smile and her
carefree self. I remember the day I first
found out about Destiny being bullied
some little girls with nothing else better to
do had been sending notes around school
that day calling her names and making
up stories. It had carried over to social
media that night.
And until April Destiny was not allowed to
have a Facebook account. She however
had a Instagram account that her parents
had the password and login to, which
was monitored daily by her parents. I
don't know how many times that she
cried I don't know how many times that
she wish things were different.
All she wanted was to be liked. I do know
whenever I answered that phone and got
that call I couldn't believe the words that I
was hearing. I couldn't get to the hospital
fast enough.
I wanted to wrap my arms around
Stephanie and Kurtis and grab that little
girl up and tell her everything was going
to be ok. Destiny attempted suicide
Wednesday morning by hanging herself
she was found my her father who had to
yell for her mother because he was
unable to get her down alone.
Destiny was without oxygen for 20-30
minutes before she was brought back to
life upon arriving at St. Joseph West
Hospital in Lake St. Louis. She was then
air vaced to Cardinal Glennon in St.
Louis. Destiny's first day at Cardinal
Glennon she was breathing 60% on her
own and had good brain activity ...the
family was so excited. We thought she
was going to pull through. Destiny's
situation looked so promising. We were
sure that it would be a long road home,
but she would pull through and
everything was going to be fine.
Then later that night Destiny's
temperature spiked and she took a turn
for the worst. She started having seizures
back-to-back and her brain started to
swell. Her legal cause of death was from
swelling of her brain. It was not ruled a
suicide due to the fact that they
resuscitated her.
Destiny took the last breathe on her own
Friday 4/22/16 around 4:30pm but was
not officially pronounced deceased in the
eyes of the law until 1:11 Saturday
4/23/2016. We are donating her organs
as Destiny would have wanted. She was
such a kind, caring, compassionate,
loving person who would do anything to
help others.
Destiny was a victim of one of the worst
crimes that I know. Growing up everyone
said sticks and stones may break my
bones but words will never hurt me well, I
most definitely beg to differ words do
hurt sometimes so much more than
physical harm.
This is the worst moment in anyone's life
but just know that she is going to live on
in others. Her tragic death is going to
give life to so many. She is going to
make the most beautiful angel! Destiny's
Memorial Service will be held Saturday
April 30th, 2016.
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14 year old girl commits suicide after classmates release fake n*de photos online and kept bullying her
April 29, 2016
14 year old girl commits suicide after classmates release fake n*de photos online and kept bullying her
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