1. Daisy Coleman attempts suicide
Daisy Coleman, the teenager at the center of a small-town rape scandal in the US has been hospitalized following a suicide attempt.
Her mother, Melinda Coleman said in a Facebook post that Daisy tried to take her own life on Sunday after she was “terrorized” by teens on Twitter when she briefly attended a party.
In January 2012, Daisy accused a 17-year-old boy from a prominent local family of raping her while she was drunk and then leaving her on her family’s doorstep in the freezing cold.
Daisy described the ordeal in her own words in a blog post last October.
“On Twitter and Facebook, I was called a skank and a liar and people encouraged me to kill myself. Twice, I did try to take my own life,” she wrote.
Her Mother has called on hacktivist group Anonymous for support.
If you or anyone you are close to needs help contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or contact Suicide Prevention via this link
2. Bali mother and daughter deaths
It has been confirmed that the QLD coroner will investigate the deaths of Noelene Bischoff and her 14-year-old daughter Yvana who died while holidaying in Bali.
News limited are reporting this morning that Indonesian drugs used to treat an allergic reaction have been found their hotel room
Indonesian police have revealed they found 29 prescription and non-prescription medications in the pair’s room, including two Indonesian-made anti-allergy drugs.
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Seems like ther
Oh gosh, Sherro, it really does, doesn't it?!?!?!
Yeah, I agree. Totally.
I just looked up ther. It's a word... Albanian for 'slaughter'.
I hadn't realised Sherro spoke Albanian.
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I am really suss on the whole Bali investigation and all these Indonesian-made allergy drugs. Hadn't they just arrived in Bali less than 24 hours before? Everyone who knew them has said they didn't know of either of them having any food allergies. What the F? Something odd about this case.
Agreed afw, it seems like a lot of pills to pick up in the first 24 hours. And it doesn't make sense to have anti-allergy meds, if you don't have allergies. I have a feeling the fish was high in a chemical and that chemical has reacted badly with whatever they had been taking.
Maybe they developed a rash or something that seemed like an allergic reaction as soon as they got there/on the plane, so thought they would just buy an anti-allergy medication to treat it? The mum was a nurse I think, so she probably would have felt confident buying something over the counter.
Initially I thought 29 medications was a bizarrely huge amount...but then I remembered all the crap I packed for my own recent trip to Bali, "just in case". I took pain killers, cold and flu tablets, contraceptive bill, imodium plus they might have had anti-malaria medication, antihayfever tablets. Not sure what the other 23 medications would be though!
It's terribly, terribly sad.
I think it would be the best if Indonesia doesn't do the autopsy. I think they would attempt a cover up. I believe a QLD coroner has offered his service with the families wishes?
I found the whole medication-over-the-counter street bars so odd in Vietnam in 2005. I'd developed a chest / cough thing where I entirely lost my voice. An Aussie-raised Vietnamese girl on my day trip hauled me to one and insisted I had to get some pills. No idea what they were, didn't seem to have any affect on me. But I watched locals ask for items or mention their symptoms and the white coats were opening drawers, packets, jars, climbing on ladders to get to high shelves like a library and basically snipping a few tabs off a foil packet or pouring a small handful out of a jar and putting them into sandwich bags and handing them off like lollies - no prescriptions. I came home about one week later still unwell so went Tullamarine Airport-GP-chemist-home! I was better in under 24 hours on antibiotics.