Attorney: Florida never helped girl who livestreamed suicide
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January 26, 2017
PLANTATION, Fla. (AP) — A 14-year-old girl who broadcast her suicide on Facebook never got the help she needed from Florida's foster care system, an attorney said Wednesday, even though she had exhibited dangerous and self-destructive behavior.
Nakia Venant had been in and out of foster care for more than seven years, and since April, had bounced between at least 10 homes and shelters, said Howard Talenfeld, who is Nakia's mother's attorney. Nakia was sexually abused by another foster child when she was 7, he said.
Nakia killed herself early Sunday, several hours after she wrote on Facebook: "...
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