Girl, 12, was dead for eight agonizing minutes after trying to hang herself. Now family is suing her school

The household of a South Carolina miss who attempted termination aft suffering brutal bullying are present suing her schoolhouse for ignorance. 

Kelaia Turner attended the Dr. Phinnize J. Fisher Middle School successful Greenville County for 2 years - astatine the property of 11 and 12. 

During that time, the young miss was allegedly physically assaulted by peers and branded a 'roach' and a 'man', according to the 24-page suit filed by the family. 

Mother Ty Turner believes the bullying began erstwhile she started wearing her earthy hairsbreadth to schoolhouse and contempt aggregate efforts, the schoolhouse took nary action. 

'There was nary little than 7 to 9 times that I, myself personally, reached retired to the school, and I had the emails, and fractional the clip they didn't respond back, and if they did, it wasn't with thing of immoderate sustenance, determination was ne'er immoderate resolution,' she sorrowfully told WYFF.   

Ty besides alleged that alternatively of providing enactment and helping trim incidents, teachers joined successful connected the torture. 

'All names Kelaia was called successful the beingness of a teacher oregon module and unit members with nary repercussion. 

'According to Greenville County schools wherever she attended, determination is ZERO TOLERANCE to bullying, but determination wasn't. Some teachers were really complicit,' she said successful a Facebook post. 

After months of relentless bullying, Kelaia confided successful a person astir her thoughts of committing termination connected March 11, 2023. 

Five days later, she was recovered hanging from a loop successful her chamber astatine home.

According to Ty, the 12-year-old was dormant for a implicit 8 minutes earlier paramedics could revive her. 

'She was chill to the touch, humor was coming retired of her nose, and she had already urinated connected herself. She had afloat committed to what it was that she was attempting to do, and she was gone for 8 full minutes. 

'Paramedics couldn't find a pulse, and they couldn't find her heartbeat. There were grown men successful the country crying,' Ty recalled.

But the earnestly spiritual parent kept praying and aft a fewer minutes, a paramedic recovered a faint pulse.

'He said, "I recovered a pulse. It's very, precise faint, but I recovered one. I don't cognize what you're retired present doing but I would accidental helium should support doing it". Kelaia is simply a miracle.' 

Once brought backmost to life, Kelaia was successful a coma for weeks, yet staying successful the infirmary for 101 days and suffered terrible encephalon damage. 

'We're 18 months positive out. Kelaia has nary power presently implicit her body. She's full care, nonverbal, connected a trach, connected a feeding tube. 

'She requires astir the timepiece attraction that, for the astir part, is administered by her begetter and I, we've precocious gotten the assistance of a caregiver 3 days a week. It's an implicit mountain,' Ty explained.

In a GoFundMe launched Schine't Turner this year, the distressed parent said the household has been struggling with constricted mobility, nary wheelchair van and mounting fiscal stress. 

The crowdfunding page has raised $2,930 retired of its $15,000 extremity arsenic of now.  

A erstwhile fundraiser launched by Tracey Graham crowdfunded $7,000 for the young girl. 

Since the filing, schoolhouse officials person vehemently denied each allegations of ignorance and negligence. 

In a statement, a spokesperson for Greenville County Schools said: 'The District is alert of the allegations made by this genitor and has addressed them straight with the parent. 

'We disagree with these allegations and person conducted a thorough probe and reappraisal of each allegation astatine the clip they were made. While we bash not hold with the allegations, our hearts spell retired to Kelaia Tecora Turner, her mother, and their family.

'Every schoolhouse implements anti-bullying strategies and programs for students, including however to admit bullying and however to study it. 

 'When a schoolhouse is alert of imaginable bullying, those concerns are investigated promptly, thoroughly, and confidentially. Steps are taken to find what occurred, and if immoderate inappropriate behaviour occurred, past disciplinary measures are provided to the offending pupil and strategies designed to forestall immoderate akin behaviour are implemented arsenic well. If the alleged behaviour is perchance transgression successful nature, instrumentality enforcement is notified.'