The heartbroken mom of sex assault advocate Daisy Coleman posted about feeling defeated — weeks before committing suicide following her daughter’s death.
“Albany wins. I’m dead,” Melinda Coleman wrote on Facebook on Nov. 18, referring to the Missouri city that the family moved to amid bullying that Daisy endured for coming forward with rape allegations.
Melinda, 58, was found dead in her home Sunday night after taking her own life.
Daisy, 23, the subject of the Netflix documentary “Audrie & Daisy,” committed suicide in August eight years after she was raped at a party in Maryville, Missouri, at age 14. Her alleged attacker, Matthew Barnett — the grandson of former Missouri Rep. Rex Barnett — was never convicted.
The case deeply divided the small city — with some people harassing Daisy and her family and sending them fleeing to Albany.
She co-founded SafeBAE, an organization dedicated to ending the sexual assault of middle school and high school students.
The group’s co-founder Shael Norris told the Sun that the Coleman family faced “a lot of animosity” from the town even in the years after the attack.
“If you don’t have your community lifting you up and supporting you and helping you through hard times, that compounds everything,” she said.
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