GIRL, 11, DEAD IN BATHROOM STALL, MOM WANTS ANSWERS

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

3.9 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Felicia LoAlbo-Melendez, 11, was being bullied in school. On top of this, she had just lost her father to pancreatic cancer.

By all appearances, the little girl was handling it all as best she could. Felicia told her mother, teacher, and the school administrator about the bullying that she and other students were subjected to. In fact, she wrote emails suggesting solutions to the school, like a "Trauma Club" where bullied kids would have a safe place to what was going on.

No one replied.

Felicia then reminded the adults that there were laws in place to protect the children and that the school was "breaking the laws" by not taking action.

Felicia LoAlbo-Melendez was found by another student in a bathroom stall. Her death was ruled a suicide.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Elaina LoAlbo - Victim's mother: Change.org Petition
Cheryl Brown - Mother of McKenna Brown, bully victim
David Studdard - Spalding County, Ga. Assistant District Attorney, Former Police Officer
Caryn Stark - Psychologist; Twitter: @carnpsych
Tom Ruskin - Private Investigator, President of the CMP Protective and Investigative Group, Inc.; Former New York City Police Detective Investigator; Twitter: @tomruskin
Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D - Embrace Civility LLC; Author: “Engage Students to Embrace Civility, Be Positively Powerful: A Guide for Teens on Achieving Resilience and Empowerment, and "Be Positively Powerful: Resilient When Things Get Tough;" Facebook: Be Positively Powerful
Dr. Kendall Crowns- Chief Medical Examiner in Tarrant County (Fort Worth); Lecturer: University of Texas Austin and Texas Christian University Medical School
Nicole Partin - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter; Twitter: @nicolepartin

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0:25.0	Binge the entire season of the Pike and Massacre season 4 on the I Heart Radio app. Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast.
0:40.0	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:42.0	How does a beautiful little girl just 11 years old end up dead in the bathroom at school?
1:01.0	I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Series XM 111.
1:10.0	I'm thinking back on when my twins John David and Lucy were just 11 years old.
1:17.0	And they're still babies at 11. Still very much babies.
1:24.0	Who is 11 year old Felicia?
1:30.0	Take a listen to her on Facebook.
1:33.0	Hello my fellow dragons. My name is Felicia Loa Bomalandez.
1:38.0	And I'm running for Classroom Marple's Enervative because I think that bullying is bad.
1:44.0	And I want to stop bullying and bullies. I also want to make the school a bit of place.
1:50.0	I show sore qualities by listening to others, being nice, doing work I need to do, and respecting my teachers and others near me.
2:00.0	If you need to talk to someone, I'm here to help.
2:04.0	One thing I will try to do is have a hybrid party at the end of the year or give vincents coupons to people that get A's and B's or all A's.
2:14.0	I hope you vote for me and have a great day.
2:17.0	You know when you hear Felicia's voice, you would never know that there was any problem at all.
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