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Subject: Netflix star and rape survivor Daisy Coleman was being terrorized by a stalker before she committed suicide


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Date Posted: Wed. 08/12/20 3:23:04am

After alleging that a teenage boy in her small town raped her, Daisy endured an immense campaign of scorn from the community
Daisy Coleman, the young woman who in the Netflix documentary “Audrie and Daisy” recounted the small-town-Missouri scorn she suffered after accusing a teenage boy of raping her when she was 14, apparently committed suicide rather than endure a campaign of stalking and harassment a man had waged against her, the Daily Mail reports.

The stalker who tormented the 23-year-old Daisy Coleman for months and apparently drove her to commit suicide was, it seems, someone she knew.

Daisy, who became an outspoken advocate for survivors of sexual assault during her short life, died the night of August 4, only hours after police came to conduct a welfare check on her.

Now media outlets have learned that Daisy Coleman filed a harassment report against her stalker with those very police who came to her home, only to die of suicide shortly after.

‘Every media outlet is blaming her suicide on her rape, and ignoring that she was going through so much before her suicide, and not putting any blame on this man for harassing her,’ a friend said.

Daisy Coleman ‘was being stalked by a man she knew and feared for her life’, claim friends who say her suicide can’t be blamed on her rape chronicled in Netflix show
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“She would rather kill herself than let this man kill her,” an anonymous friend told People.

Thus far, it remains unknown who stalked Daisy Coleman and apparently drove her to suicide, according to The U.S. Sun.

Reports have indicated that Daisy posted on social media that she’d alerted law enforcement that a man had been stalking and harassing her since December.

The stalking was so bad that not long before her suicide, Daisy Coleman made a friends-only post on social media indicating that she was fearful of leaving the house, even to walk her dog.

Coleman was a subject of the 2016 Netflix documentary Audrie & Daisy, which focused in part on her and her friend Paige’s alleged sexual assaults when they were 14 and 13, respectively.

‘FEARED FOR HER LIFE:’ Netflix ‘rape victim’ Daisy Coleman ‘was being stalked and filed a harassment report the day she killed herself’
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The documentary also chronicled the bullying, if not outright stalking, that Daisy Coleman, now dead from suicide, sustained in her small town after she accused her attacker of rape.

Another friend told People that the stalking that preceded Coleman’s suicide was so bad Daisy feared for her life.

Daisy alleged that football player Matthew Barnett, then 17, sexually assaulted her in his basement in Maryville, Missouri. The charge against him was ultimately dropped, inspiring outrage among victims’ rights groups.

As Oxygen notes, the 14-year-old Daisy was given alcohol and then, after the attack, was left intoxicated outside her home in the freezing cold, where her mother finally found her.

Coleman’s mother, Melinda Coleman, announced her daughter’s death in a heartbreaking post on Facebook on Aug. 4, writing that her daughter had still been haunted by being raped in January 2012 at a Missouri party when she was just 14 years old.

Rape Survivor Daisy Coleman Had Filed A Harassment Report And Reportedly Told Friends About Stalker Before Her Suicide
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“She was my best friend and amazing daughter. I think she had to make it seem like I could live without her. I can’t,” the devastated Melinda Coleman wrote on Facebook in the wake of Daisy’s apparently stalking-related suicide. “I wish I could have taken the pain from her! She never recovered from what those boys did to her and it’s just not fair. My baby girl is gone.”

The other girl whose story was featured in the Netflix documentary, Audrie Pott, committed suicide only days after she reported being sexually assaulted in California in 2012.

Daisy Coleman’s apparently stalking-driven suicide has stirred considerable new outrage over how her rape case was handled.

Scott Berkowitz, president of the anti-sexual assault group RAINN, told The Telegraph: “Daisy, her story, and her advocacy meant so much to advocates and survivors of sexual violence of all ages – but especially to high school students who saw their own stories reflected in hers.”

American actress Olivia Munn said the news was “absolutely heartbreaking”. “We have to do more to take care of the young girls in our society,” she tweeted. Corrine Fisher, a podcast host who interviewed Coleman, said: “She was bullied nonstop for telling her story. This is why survivors don’t always come forward.”

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