The 13-year-old held a knife against her throat one spring morning, looked her mom in the eyes and said she’d do it.
It was a threat built on depression, anger and despair. The teen had tried to run away from home. She twisted and pinched her skin until her arms and neck turned blue. She stole a cell phone from a student at school and used it to post photos of herself on an adult dating site. When her mother confronted her, the teen became upset.
She grabbed the blade.
In desperation, her mom called 911. It was the second time her daughter’s behavior forced her to dial the trio of digits, to reach out to strangers for help.
[For more on this story by SUSAN ABRAM, go to http://www.dailynews.com/2017/...-and-into-hospitals/]
Photo: A suicidal teen sits in the back of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Mental Evaluation Team vehicle outside Anderson Elementary School in Compton as MET finds a mental health facility that can take her for a 72-hour psychiatric hold. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) .
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