Humiliated teen Adriana Kuch killed herself after being taunted with texts from bullies who beat her in school
‘Humiliated’ New Jersey teenager Adriana Kuch killed herself after being taunted with texts from the bullies who beat her in the school halls, her father revealed.
Adriana, 14, took her own life in her bedroom at her family home in Berkeley Township, New Jersey, on February 3.
Hours beforehand, she had received a taunting message from one of the girls who filmed the attack, making fun of her for ‘dripping’ blood on the floor, and being ‘whooped’.
The messages were relentless, starting on February 1st – after the 11am attack – and lasting until February 2nd at around 3pm, the day before she killed herself.
At 10.46pm on February 2nd, Adriana texted her boyfriend complaining about having to go back to school. She was found dead at 5am on February 3rd.
Four teenage girls have now been charged over the attack, which left Adriana with a busted lip and severely bruised legs. DailyMail.com is not naming the girls, who are all minors.
Michael Kuch, Adriana’s father, says the beating was instigated by one of the girls, who was jealous about Adriana’s friendship with another girl.
What drove her to kill herself, he says, is the fact that she was ’embarrassed’ about the fast-spreading videos of the attack on TikTok and Snapchat.
‘She was so embarrassed that they jumped her. She would say, “I don’t want to be made fun of.”
‘It was like she was attacked twice.
‘It used to be you’d go to school, get bullied and then you left.
‘But now you come home and you keep getting bullied – they still keep picking at you home.’
He has also slammed the school – Central Regional High School – for neither expelling the bullies or calling the police after the attack.
An investigation was only launched by the authorities after he took Adriana to a police station with a bloodied, battered face.
‘I can’t begin to tell you how angry I am at the school, at the police department… if those videos hadn’t been posted, these girls would have ended up with a one day suspension or in no trouble at all.
‘The [school] has done nothing. They should not be in charge of our children’s safety.’
Mr. Kuch is also ‘sickened’ by the fact that as he and his wife prepare to bury Adriana, the school superintendent, Triantafillos Parlapanides, is defending himself on social media, writing in one post just yesterday – almost a week after Adriana’s suicide: ‘There are two sides to every story’.
Mr. Kuch, who served 22 years in the US Army, is calling for all of the staff at the school to be fired.
‘You trust these people to keep your children safe but they are failing.
‘They need to go.
‘As I’m getting ready for my daughter’s funeral, he’s posting online saying “there are two sides to every story?”
‘It makes me sick. There’s one side. She was assaulted.’