According to the Daily News
, an 11-year-old Bronx girl committed suicide on Monday, after she had send out suicidal texts to several of her friends. Family and loved ones of Wilnery Polanco-Uben can't understand what happened: “I don’t know why no one stopped her,” said her building super Bobby Singh. “She was such a beautiful, happy little girl. I just don’t understand how something could happen to someone so young.”
Polanco-Uben skipped the day from Intermediate School 98, and apparently took her own life by hanging herself. Police sources told the News that Wilnery sent friends suicidal text messages hours before she killed herself. She “wasn’t happy with her life and talked about hating the way things were going in her life,” one source told them. Police added that there was no indication of bullying, but an investigation was still ongoing.
The News quotes statistics from the Centers for Disease Control which show that fewer than one in 100,000 children ages 10-14 commit suicide—no one under the age of 15 committed suicide in the city in 2007 or 2008. "Children may not tell them unless they are close and start asking questions about how they're doing," child psychologist Roy Lubit told them. “We are all confused,” 12-year-old student Liz Donato said. “She always seemed so happy. Everyone is freaking out.”
