Associated Press. Arguably, the Steubenville rape would never have been prosecuted without the video. He threw up in the kitchen sink into which someone had already tossed Audries iPhone. "I swear to god if u still have those pictures ill kill you (sic)" she writes to one. In response to Audries death and the arrests, Saratogas teachers opened discussions with students about the case that had fractured the affluent suburban veneer of the high school. Most disturbing is the attempt to link (Audries) suicide to the specific actions of these three boys. The flip side of this ugly trend is that when gang-rape participants and bystanders record and disseminate pictures of an assault, public outrage is inflamed and cops and prosecutors have evidence they can take to court. That night, several friends from around the area were drinking heavily at the house and attendees said they saw Potts downing shot after shot. 17 2013, Updated 12:39 a.m. Photo: Courtesy Audrie Pott Foundation. Days after the suicide, responding to questions from a San Jose Mercury News reporter about rumors of school bullying, principal Paul Robinson said that the rumor was as far from the truth as it can be. Administrators have since refused to respond to questions, citing the ongoing police investigation. The teens, including Audrie, began drinking alcohol mixed with Gatorade. On Friday, Robinson deferred comment to the superintendent of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District. Something about the silence pushed a panic button inside her. They want the boys to like them, says Amanda. Larry Pott and his wife, Lisa, pose for a portrait holding a picture of Larry's daughter Audrie in Saratoga, Calif. Larry Pott and his first wife, Sheila, had divorced years earlier. In early August, Canadian authorities charged two 18-year-old boys with disseminating child pornography. Audrie had a lot of other problems in her life, and everybody in Saratoga knows that., Its a sentiment shared by many parents around town. Police found new pictures of other nude teen girls on some of their phones, prompting them to add on new charges in July. S*** always does. Especially with the people who were there.". 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. I would rather have the best case we can move forward than the fastest case we can move forward.. According to accounts told to the police, three classmates that Pott had known since middle school helped carry the intoxicated teen upstairs. On the night of the attack, a group of teenagers were at a friend's house drinking heavily. She told her mother she was spending the night with a friend. Divorced parents is not something unique. Sara 15, pretty, slim and blond and Audrie had become close that summer and were exploring a new realm of boys, bottles and small parties, preferably at parent-free houses, that the Saratoga kids call kickbacks.. 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. Her friend, identified only as Jane C., also helped her into the room, but could have left after. 'ill make sure nothing goes around. Pott and a friend both told their parents that they were spending the night at the other friend's house, and then went the house of Michael and Sheila Penuen, who were out of town for the weekend. Its not funny. And a week later, this happened. In math class, one of Audries friends teased her about the wounds. The Mandalorian Season Three Gets Off to a Disappointing Start She walked across the kitchen and down the long carpeted hall to the bathroom door adjoining Audries room. ' says Hayes. The popular cheerleader hanged herself after a topless selfie circulated. The law is still in the writing stages, though, and the local legislator hasnt even introduced it. Audrie Pott, the 15-year-old California girl who killed herself after photos of her alleged sexual assault appeared online, felt 'tortured' by the experience of being betrayed by suspects that she . But Saratoga school officials would not make that link, publicly denying that Audries suicide had anything to do with events that occurred at the school. The Falcon spoke to more than four dozen students, and none of them had seen the photos. Photos of Audrie Pott being raped by three of her classmates never went "viral" at the high school, students at the school are now saying. In every single class, somebody raised their hand and said, Well, wasnt she drunk? Audrie Pott was just 15 years old when she took her own life in September 2012 after photos of the assault spread online. The digital photos spread like wildfire among students at Saratoga and at least one image was posted on the Internet, Allard said. "If she felt hungry, when no one was looking, she would eat. ', On top of that, for the past few years, Audrie had a particularly tortured relationship with her body. Audrie Taylor Pott [1] was a 15-year-old student at Saratoga High School in Saratoga, California, who died by suicide. She found it among the flowers at the memorial. She was so different than how I knew her to be. We are hopeful that everyone understands that these boys, none of whom have ever been in trouble with the law, are to be regarded as innocent., The lawyer representing the Pott family on Friday said, however, that there was nothing else so distressing in her life that would cause her to kill herself. In court documents filed by attorney Philip Pereira on behalf of one of Pott's unnamed attackers, the boy claims that Lawrence and Sheila Pott failed to act on the girl's 'long-standing and serious emotional problems before her suicide and they should have sought professional help.'. 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. The parents of Audrie Pott, a 15-year-old Saratoga girl who killed herself after she was allegedly sexually assaulted at a party last year, added a new female defendant to a suit they filed in San . She talked to Amanda on the phone and told her friend about waking up stripped and graffitied. Mary appears to have left the room when the boys started pulling off Audries clothes and drawing on her with Sharpies. Audrie lived in the Silicon Valley suburb of Saratoga, California. Audrie Pott Foundation. Find Audrie Pott stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. She knew them pretty well. Paramedics arrived within a few minutes. Audrie was invited to a party on September 3, 2012, which included many other teenagers, along with having alcoholic beverages available. . She thought about Audries strange silence on the day after a sleepover the weekend before. These arent easy cases. Three or more teenagers sexually assaulted Pott there. On Audries dresser, under an earring tree draped with the sparkly baubles her daughter favored, Sheila has placed a simple, hand-tooled metal rose wrapped in a piece of notebook paper. But on September 13th, Kathy went to talk to school administrators and describe what she knew about the party at Saras house and how kids at school had pictures of Audrie. On April 15th, the Pott family held a press conference announcing they were filing a civil suit against the boys and their families (the parents who own the party house settled in August), and filed an administrative claim against the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District, alleging that administrators were lax in responding to bullying against Audrie bullying that the school claims was never discussed. She wanted, says her mother, to be just like the superskinny Asian girls in her circle., Her friends knew Audrie had body-image issues. Especially with the people who were there. A sexual assault on an unconscious victim is not considered forcible. Pictures of the assault were posted online, accompanying bullying. If there is a sleepover, one of the boys might put whipped cream on someones hand. Published: 06:54 GMT, 15 January 2014 | Updated: 10:07 GMT, 15 January 2014, Loss: Audrie Pott, 15, killed herself last year after she was allegedly sexually assaulted at a party. She was engaged in a frantic attempt to discover what had happened to her body. She would eat an orange at lunch and then wait for dinner. April 15, 2013 12 AM PT. .. The failure to prosecute that case was a key factor in the downfall of former District Attorney Dolores Carr. They all belonged to their classs popular clique, the girls dressed as provocatively as possible, even by the loose standards of California high schools. The 15-year-old had . This powerful doc chronicles the dismally unjust aftermaths of two recent juvenile sexual-assault cases in the U.S. By Dennis Harvey. On the last day of her life, Audrie Pott walked through a crucible of teenage torment. When she got drunk at a party one night, they stripped her, raped her, drew all over her naked body with markers, and then triumphantly shared the pictures. Larry Pott said in an emotional press conference last April that the boys' actions were nothing short of "disgusting. Her friends were appalled. Steubenville, Ohio, spent months in the national headlines last summer after two football players raped a drunk high school girl at a party. Sundance Film Review: 'Audrie & Daisy'. When she kneed him, she was disciplined. The bravado to think what were they thinking? Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said in an interview Friday. Teachers know. By the time she was 13, shed sprouted 34DD breasts. Saratoga, Calif. A few days after Audrie Pott killed herself, while her baffled parents were grieving and students across the Saratoga High School campus wore her favorite color, teal, in h You cant capture things on the Internet. The three teens, aged 16 to 17, pleaded guilty to the attack and taking photos in . Allard, the parents' attorney, reacted angrily to the assertions. 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. Audrie Pott, a 15 year-old student attending Saratoga High School in California, attempted suicide by hanging herself after being sexually assaulted by three teenage boys at a party eight days earlier. How much punishment can they mete out to boys, who in many cases are only a year or two removed from childhood, who seem to think they are committing pranks with phones and passed-out girls, and for whom the ultimate charge rape means the end of their lives before they start? She had been sexually assaulted at a party eight days earlier by three 16-year-old boys she knew and nude pictures of her were posted online. Its a perfect storm of technology and hormones, says lawyer Lori Andrews, director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology in Chicago. She had problems like any other high-schooler. No one from the school contacted the family, though. She messaged one boy, vowing to kill him if he still had the images. 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. It was hard for her to hear that from a close friend.'. Jun. '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.'. Eventually, 11 kids showed up, many of them to sip vodka and Gatorade cocktails. Bill wrote anal above her ass with an arrow pointing down. She also messaged another boy who had been at the party to ask if one of the teenagers had photographs of her. Pott, from Saratoga, California, took her life in after sending Facebook messages to the boys who assaulted her at an alcohol-fueled party in September of 2012. Amanda couldnt give her any clues, other than to say shed seemed very bombed. Palm Springs residents sue to remove 25-foot Marilyn Monroe statue depicting her iconic My Daily Horoscope: What does 2nd March hold for MY star sign? ', Hayes decided some of her fellow students misunderstand rape. He asked that we not name his son and said the story has been wildly misreported. The accused boys kept going to school, whispers died down. Heartbroken: Larry Pott and Audrie's stepmother Lisa believe that the bullying at school led to the tragedy. 3 of 15 4 of 15 Photo of Audrie Pott provided by the Pott family. Because we were sober, we noticed everything that was going on, and they didnt know what they were doing., Sara seemed so trashed when she greeted them at the door that Kathy doesnt think her classmate even recognized her. i fucking hate people. A photo or multiple photos were taken of the assault as it was taking place.. They hear about it.. She began missing school so much that she flunked a class. A friend told Rolling Stone that for the years leading up to her death, Pott had body issues, perhaps stemming from her early development of 34DD breasts at age 13. Much of what has been reported. 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. Over the course of the next week, Audrie learned that cellphone photos had been taken of her during the assault and shared with students at the school she attended with the three attackers. Rolling Stone magazine has revealed the torment Audrie suffered in the days before her death and has detailed the messages she exchanged with her alleged attackers, whom she had known since middle school. The Saratoga Falcon student newspaper reported approximately 10 students saw an image of her defiled body. 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. I now have a reputation I can never get rid of. After seven months of detailed investigation, including the confiscation of numerous cellphones and computers of students, sheriffs deputies arrested three 16-year-old boys on Thursday, pulling two out of Saratoga High School classes where they were still enrolled and one who had transferred to Christopher High School in Gilroy. She stumbled into the bathroom and ferociously scrubbed away the ink on her face. Audrie had gone to a girlfriends house on Sept. 2, Allard, the familys lawyer said. Audrie Pott had no memory of what happened the night of the assault, but she heard rumors about it, and rumors that pictures of her naked body were everywhere. Audrie Potts. Audrie started to cry. Audrie Pott, a 15-year-old high school student from Saratoga, California, went to a classmate's house party where she was raped and sexually abused after she passed out drunk. [7] Three 16-year-old boys whom she knew eventually pleaded guilty to and served time in juvenile hall for the sexual assault. Audrie Pott: took her own life after allegedly being abused at a party. 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 . ", "With no assault, with no cyberbullying, Audrie is in art class right now," he said. Audrie Pott Foundation Public speakers.Sexual Assault education.Non-profit dedicated to memory of 15 y/o Audrie, died by suicide 2012, raped by 3 classmates #foraudrie Posts Videos Tagged I asked if they thought she was being bullied, says Sheila. . Thoughts from Audrie Pott are written on paper in her home in Saratoga, Calif. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP). Shit always does. [9][14][15], The case was also profiled on an episode of the Investigation Discovery show Web of Lies (season 5, episode 1) titled "With Friends Like These", originally aired March 13, 2018. ill make sure nothing goes around AUDRIE: its gonna get out. Five years after teenager Audrie Pott ended her own life to relieve the stress and shame of a sexual assault in Saratoga, California, her grieving family still holds out hope for closure, healing a On September 14th, the police pulled Bill out of class and interviewed him at school, then criminally cited him with a misdemeanor, handing him over to his fathers custody. 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