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Amanda Cummings' Grieving Mother To Bullies, "I Hope You Die And I Hope You Suffer"
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Jen Chung
Published Jan 5, 2012
Modified Jan 5, 2012
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The family of the Staten Island teen who died after being hit by a bus continues to rail against the girl's bullies online and in the press. “This is to all you evil son of a bitches that picked on, talked about and threatened my baby,” heartbroken mother Cece Weber wrote on her daughter’s Facebook page. Amanda Cummings' uncle demanded that online bullies show themselves while her mother said on her daughter's Facebook page, "This is to all you evil son of a bitches that picked on, talked about and threatened my baby. I HOPE YOU DIE and I HOPE YOU SUFFER."
Amanda, a 15-year-old who attended New Dorp High School, apparently threw herself in front of a bus on December 27 and died from her injuries this past Monday. Her family contends she was tormented by people—apparently Cummings was dating a 19-year-old and another girl who liked him allegedly bullied her—and her Facebook statuses in the weeks before her death seemed desperate and sad, "ill just go f**k myself, just like u said baby, then ill go kill myself, with these pills, this knife, this life has already done half the job."
Her family thinks Amanda just meant to get a few broken bones and not kill her self (the police have said she was carrying a note); instead, they have accused her bullies of killing her. A forum on 4chan posted, "I please ask that you respect her memory, and write a thoughtful paragraph or too so that all of the teenage candy-asses can feel like heroes by writing how sad they are that the girl is bullied is dead," leading to an onslaught of offensive comments on a Facebook tribute page for Amanda.
No charges are expected in the suicide, Her sister wrote on Facebook yesterday, "AS A SISTER, A MOTHER, AND A HUMAN BEING WITH A BEATING HEART THAT IS BROKEN, I AM BEGGING YOU KIDS, ANYONE WITH ANY CONCRETE PROOF OF BULLYING TOWARD MY SISTER, PLEASE LET ME KNOW... PLEASE. I NEED WITNESSES WILLING TO STEP FORWARD TO MAKE LEGAL STATEMENTS. NOT JUST KIDS COMING OUT OF THE WOODWORK THAT WANT TO GOSSIP. THANK YOU."
Uncle Keith Cummings told WPIX, "My niece committed suicide, but there are those responsible. We want justice. I want my niece to rest in peace."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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