17-Year-Old Nigerian Student Commits Suicide

17-Year-Old Nigerian Student Commits Suicide

17-year-old Nigerian-American High School Student, Omotayo Adeoye who was reported to have gone missing after her suicide attempt is dead.

Omotayo, a student of Harlem High School for Math, Science and Engineering was said to have committed suicide by jumping off George Washington Bridge on May 29, 2014 after being humiliated in front of her classmates for cheating on a test.

She reportedly wrote a suicide note right on her German-language exam that read, “I just want to go away forever on the bottom of the river.”

Adeoye subsequently asked to use the bathroom but never returned. She left school and walked to the edge of the Hudson River and jumped in and drowned herself.

Source: Legit.ng

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