The suicide of Jocelynn Rojo Carranza has been used to illustrate the “inhumanity” of Trump’s new mass-deportation policy, but it looks like there’s more to the story than meets the eye.
It’s been widely reported in the mainstream media that 11-year-old Jocelynn committed suicide because bullies at her school told her she was going to be deported. That’s what her mother told reporters after her death in the second week of February.
“The kids said because your family is Hispanic, that they were going to call ICE so her parents could be taken away and she would be left alone,” Marbella Carranza said.
The girl’s school also confirmed that she was the target of bullying, and said a student had been disciplined for the bullying.
Since her death, social media has been awash with claims that Trump is indirectly or even directly responsible for her death.
“This is what violent nationalism does. It seeps into the minds of children and turns playgrounds into nightmares,” Tweeted one X user.
Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro spoke to Jim Acosta and said that “Trump has created a culture of cruelty and meanness that is infecting American society and our kids.”
It has since emerged, however, that Jocelynn told friends she was “inappropriately touched by a family member.”
Multiple students are said to have told investigators that Jocelynn said she had been molested, but swore them not to tell anybody.
Marbella Carranza has denied the allegations.
There are four other children in the Carranza home.
Jocelynn’s funeral was held last Sunday.