Her parents said they wish someone would have alerted them to the warning signs. “Then we woke up to a nightmare the next morning,” Trinna said.Įlla died by suicide on Jan. She told her mom she wanted doughnuts for breakfast. Ella had been asking her dad how she could earn extra money to buy a birthday gift for her sister. “I really felt like she was doing so much better,” Trinna Walker said. Once Ella finally started treatment, however, her demeanor seemed to improve, they said. Rich and Trinna Walker, from New Albany, Ind., searched for a therapist for their 13-year-old daughter Ella but struggled to find one in the overloaded mental health-care system during the pandemic. “A boy in school can get away with something, but if I do one mess-up, I get called out for it. “They didn’t believe me even though there were witnesses,” she said. The teen has resorted to learning at home. A teacher was nearby, but she said the boy went unpunished and remained in her classes. Once, he seized her across her chest and did not release her until she screamed. He would whisper in her ears and grab her shoulders. School itself can sometimes be physically unsafe, as happened with Harker, a 13-year-old in Savannah, Ga., who spoke on the condition that her full name not be used because of the sensitivity of the issue.Īt school, she received unwanted attention from a boy in sixth grade. “We deal with a lot of cases on like teen dating violence and kind of informing schools about teen dating violence because the health curriculum right now basically does not cover abuse or sexual violence as much as it should,” she said.
Aanika Arjumand, 16, from Gaithersburg, Md., who sits on her county’s Domestic Violence Coordinating Council, said she was not surprised by the increases in sexual violence.
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