A beautiful Staten Island teenager threw herself in front of a city bus after a group of mean girls at her high school tormented her for months and an older boy broke her heart, her family said.
Amanda Diane Cummings, 15, of Dongan Hills, was carrying a suicide note in her pocket when she was mortally injured by the bus two days after Christmas.
“I can’t live without [him]. There’s no life at all,” the lovesick sop****re wrote in the note, according to relatives.
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“No matter what she did, they picked on her,” her cousin Ashley Gilman, 20, told the News.
“They made fun of her heels, her hair, her make-up - everything.”
Gilman said Amanda recently confided she was dating a 19-year-old boy whom the ringleader of the bullies also had a crush on. The romantic rivalry escalated tensions between the two, Gilman said.
The week before Christmas, Amanda’s bully threatened her, but the young girl did not want to report the incident for fear of being bullied even more, relatives said.
“She texted her mother, ‘I’m on the way home,’ but half an hour later she never showed up,” Henderson added.
In the early hours of Dec. 28, the teenager’s mother received a call that her critically injured daughter was at Staten Island University Hospital.
Yet even as the girl fought for her young life, the online taunts continued:
“LMFAO she jumped in front of a bus,” Cummings said someone wrote on her Facebook wall.
“Once a ho, always a ho,” another kid wrote, according to Cummings.
The posts no longer appear on Amanda’s Facebook page, which is now flooded with heartfelt comments from friends.
Cummings said his niece had told family she wanted to k!ll herself a couple of years ago, but there was no warning this this time.
“There was nothing, there was no sign," he said. “They tormented her ... There has to be justice.”
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