Audrie & Daisy Page #2

There was like four or five texts, and one

of them said, "I can't do this anymore."

I said, "What do you mean?"

And she said, "Can you pick me up?"

We pulled up to the house,

and I said, "Just go inside...

and calm down

and we'll talk in a few minutes."

She spent lot of the day in her room,

on her computer.

And I went to check on her.

And I knocked on the door and I said,

"Audrie, are you okay?"

And she said nothing.

So, I popped open the door, and...

I saw her and she was...

hanging from the shower.

I cut her down...

and I tried to drag her

out of the tub and...

I couldn't get her all the way out.

Maybe three minutes later...

the paramedics were here.

[sniffles]

And I kept saying, "You've gotta save her.

You've gotta save her."

[Larry] I just, literally,

raced to my car... [sighs]

beelined straight to the hospital.

And the minute I walked in

and saw her eyes, I knew she was gone.

[reporter 1] Santa Clara County sheriff's

deputies arrived at Saratoga High School

and arrested two teenaged boys.

Each of them will be charged

with two counts of felony

and one count of

misdemeanor sexual battery.

[reporter 2] The photo not only made

the event more terrible for Audrie,

it will also be used as evidence

against the boys, now in custody.

[reporter 1] This is not the first story

we've told of this ilk.

Teenagers, allegations of sex assault,

cell phone photos, social media.

It's getting to the point

where we're losing track.

What about all of the other teens...

PISMO BEACH, CALIFORNIA

[Delaney Henderson]

My dad came home one night and said,

"Delaney, you need to turn on the news."

I remember turning on the news

and hearing about this girl

and her name was Audrie Pott.

And I remember thinking to myself,

"I need to talk to her."

And my dad looked at me and he said,

"You know, she committed suicide."

I know...

I know the exact feeling she felt.

Even after my assault,

I still go through it sometimes

of just self-shame and,

you know, all these people are right,

what they're saying about me.

She had only been going through this

for a week and had gotten so bad.

Like, if I had had one day

and I could have just talked to her

and let her know that I was there.

That I'm going through

what she's going through.

And my dad was like, "You know,

but sometimes, like, it's just too late."

I'm just lucky because it didn't work.

When I tried to kill myself,

it didn't work.

And I remember thinking afterwards,

"Why didn't I take more pills?"

Like, the assault and the rape happened,

but it was the aftereffect, I think,

that was so much worse.

I mean, there was pictures forwarded

all over Facebook, all over Twitter.

There was hashtags created, like,

"Delaney Henderson's a slut."

It got to the point

where I was getting threats.

The DA actually came to us and said,

"You need to leave,

because these threats are getting so bad

that we're afraid for your life."

What about these? These too, right?

[man] Yeah.

[Delaney] Now, we are finally

moving to Florida.

I mean,

we can't get any farther than that.

We're going from the Pacific Ocean

to the Atlantic Ocean.

I wish that someone had contacted me

when I had needed it, you know?

Even just to send me a Facebook message.

The second I heard about Daisy,

I looked at my mom and I said,

"I'm gonna talk to her.

I don't know how, I don't know where

to find her, but I need to talk to her."

[chimes]

MARYVILLE, MISSOURI

[reporter 1] A senior at Maryville

High School was charged today

with sexual assault

and endangering the welfare of a child,

after allegedly engaging in sex

with an intoxicated 14-year-old girl.

According to

the Nodaway County sheriff's office,

Matthew Barnett, aged 17,

faces charges in the alleged...

[reporter 2] A second Maryville teen

has been charged

in a sex crimes investigation.

Seventeen-year-old Jordan Zech is charged

with felony sexual exploitation

of a minor.

According to court documents,

he used his cell phone to make a video

of a 14-year-old girl engaged in

sexual acts with a 17-year-old male.

[David Glidden] Let's see.

[grunts]

[Charlie Coleman] January 7th.

I remember it pretty vividly because

that was the first ever

wrestling tournament I had ever won.

And I was pretty excited about it.

I actually texted Jordan, I was like,

"We should hang out tonight. Let's play

Call of Duty and drink a beer or two."

I had some in my fridge, I was like,

"All right. Well, let's do this."

And he was like, "Ah, I don't know, man.

Matt keeps buggin' me about comin' over."

I was like, "All right, it's cool.

Don't worry about it."

So, I actually went to bed.

When I fell asleep,

it was probably ten o'clock.

Daisy had her friend Paige over

from Albany

and they were, what I thought was

watching movies and stuff,

but they were actually drinking a bit.

[Daisy Coleman] I met Paige

when I was about nine or ten.

We kinda had the same dry sense of humor.

We were kinda the weird kids,

almost like the outcasts.

She was basically my best friend.

So I really trusted her.

I thought, like,

we could try drinking alcohol together.

We had just been drinking in a room.

I mean, not really doin' a whole lot.

I know we went through at least

a water bottle of tequila,

and mixed that

with some vodka and Red Bull.

And...

Uh, I started to feel

really sick and dizzy,

so I laid down for a little while.

[text messages whooshing]

[Daisy] This guy started texting me.

He was actually friends

with my oldest brother.

And him and, um, a bunch

of my brother's friends

were drinking at his place

in his basement.

I was the freshman girl, cheerleader.

She was going to be a freshman.

She was in eighth grade.

So it was kind of like, "Oh, older boys

think they want to hang out with us?"

Like...

It was just one of those things, like,

"If we did this, I bet we would be cool

if we could hang out with them,"

and kinda thing.

I think at the point that

I did leave my house, I was drunk.

Not, like, tipsy or buzzed, but drunk.

[chuckles]

Which was hard for me to identify

at the time, because it was kind of like,

"Oh, is this what it's

supposed to feel like?

Or is it supposed to be different?"

So it's just kind of like,

"Let me add more fuel to this fire

and see what happens."

[chuckles]

We literally jumped out my window.

We walked out to the car.

They kind of drove to a neighborhood.

We had to walk through

a couple of backyards to get to his house.

So you could kinda tell that

he was hiding it from his parents.

And so, we had to sneak in

through the basement window.

There were five guys there.

Matt, Cole, Nick, Jordan,

and a younger friend of theirs that

took Paige into Matt's sister's bedroom.

Pretty much, uh, as soon as we got

to the house, we were separated.

I was taken into another room.

[Daisy] Someone mentioned

having me drink out of the b*tch cup.

"If you drank so much,

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