Parents of cheerleader, 14, who suddenly killed herself reveal heartbreaking admission from her memorial

The devastated parents of a 14-year-old miss who killed herself abruptly are begging her schoolhouse to intervene successful the horrendous bullying they accidental led to her suicide.  

Ashley Scott, 14, was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers successful Douglas County, an country adjacent Denver, Colorado.

The kind-hearted young cheerleader was known for helping others, particularly the homeless through her nonprofit KidsCareToo, and she appeared to beryllium a blessed and excitable teenage girl. 

Her parents ne'er expected to find her lifeless connected October 23, specified minutes aft they'd planned a household dinner, and hours aft she'd begged them for spare alteration for the vending instrumentality astatine cheer practice. 

A period later, they stay mostly successful the acheronian astir the demons she was facing. 

Anne and Troy Henington fishy their girl was bullied, but person had nary denotation from Ashley's schoolhouse astir what was done to halt it. 

And they cannot entree her telephone due to the fact that of its passcode. The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is successful possession of the teen's instrumentality and is investigating it for signs of cyberbullying.

At her memorial service, different teenage miss approached the parents, begging for assistance and saying she started getting bullied aft Ashley passed. 

'It was conscionable heartbreaking, it's a tragedy,' her mother, Anne, told Daily Mail. 

Ashley died from a self-inflicted gunshot coiled to the near temple, according to autopsy report, viewed by Daily Mail. 

She suffered from aggregate skull fractures and hemorrhages. Her mode of decease was ruled a suicide. 

While constabulary are yet to uncover what they deliberation drove Ashley to instrumentality her ain life, her parents are convinced bullying is the answer, but the household inactive has nary thought who her tormentors are.  

They judge she was picked connected astatine school, perchance by aggregate students, but she'd lone mentioned erstwhile that a miss astatine schoolhouse was 'really mean' to her.

And since her passing, a teacher has fixed them a insubstantial wherever she wrote astir bullying and had mentioned that radical needed 'more assistance than her.' 

It had a been a 'red emblem to the teacher,' Anne told Daily Mail, saying that the pedagogue had handed implicit the insubstantial to them astatine Ashley's solemnisation of beingness connected Saturday. 

But that emblem went nowhere, arsenic the schoolhouse did thing astir the imaginable bullying and Anne believes the acquisition instauration is not doing capable to 'monitor' students, particularly their online activity. 

'The schoolhouse has a work to support children...and the schoolhouse has a work to pass parents,' Anne told DailyMail.com. 

Ashley's parents judge their girl had been subjected to cyberbullying and that it was chiefly happening during schoolhouse hours. 

Students at Rock Canyon High School usage Canvas to bash their homework and assignments online and the young scholars are required to person a telephone oregon laptop to bash usage the platform. 

'A batch of [the bullying] was done electronically,' Anne told DailyMail.com. 

Police are present moving to get warrants for the telephone institution and Apple to summation entree to the teen's phone, arsenic good arsenic moving with the schoolhouse and teachers to overgarment a clearer pictured of what happened. 

'This is inactive an unfastened probe truthful determination isn’t thing further we tin merchandise astatine this point,' the Sheriff's Office told Daily Mail. 

Although charges person not been brought against the alleged bully oregon bullies, Anne and Troy would 'absolutely' see pressing them to debar different kid going done the aforesaid thing, the parent told Daily Mail. 

Anne has a 'gut feeling' that the 'ball was dropped' by the schoolhouse erstwhile it came to protecting students from bullying. 

'[There is truthful much] resources and backing astatine that school,' Anne said. 

The schoolhouse is located successful a 'very privileged' area, wherever the bulk of adjacent homes are worthy astir $1.5million, the mother-of-two said. 

The parents besides judge Ashley felt the acquainted pressures of teenagers to beryllium without flaws.

'I deliberation she enactment a batch of unit connected herself...She had to beryllium perfect,' Anne recalled to DailyMail.com. 

'She cared truthful overmuch astir her appearance, [she] was precise fashion-forward.' 

Ashley would aftermath up astatine 4:30am earlier schoolhouse conscionable to bash her hairsbreadth and makeup, adjacent though her parents insisted she was conscionable arsenic beauteous barefaced and with her hairsbreadth thrown up successful a ponytail. 

'She had to look perfect,' Anne said.  

Anne and Troy and are hoping to alteration that sermon by encouraging young radical to commencement talking astir their feelings and what's truly going, versus striving to ever beryllium flawless. 

In effect to the death, her parents launched the Ashley Isabella Scott Foundation to assistance children successful need. 

The organization's funds volition assistance students who are struggling by assisting teens to scope their goals some monetarily and done assorted services. 

Ashley besides inspired galore with her KidsCareToo effort, which she started erstwhile she was conscionable 5 years aged arsenic a first-grader successful Colorado Springs.

Through the enactment she helped the stateless successful her country by providing blankets and clothing, handing retired cookies and giving retired presents during the holidays. 

The task began aft Anne told small Ashley that they had 'extra Christmas money' near implicit 1 twelvemonth and asked her what she wanted to bash with it. 

Anne had expected the kid to prime a Winter Wonderland activity, but small Ashley amazed her by saying she wanted to assistance the homeless. 

Her parent asked her to prime a fig - 15 - and that's however galore bags they made the archetypal year. 

Ashley besides had wanted to manus the bags retired to the stateless connected the street, arsenic successful Colorado unhoused radical with dogs are not allowed successful shelters and families are breached up by gender, truthful she knew they needed it most, Anne said. 

Since its archetypal year, the task has expanded beyond Colorado Springs to Pueblo, Colorado and Birmingham, Alabama. 

In 2018 the then-Governor John Hickenlooper honored Ashley for her enactment astatine his State of the State address. 

He said it was a shame that the past seven-year-old could not tally for governor.

The household has started a GoFundMe to assistance with their caller instauration successful her sanction and to transportation connected her legacy. 

Ashley's loved ones remembered her arsenic a beauteous and fearless teen who would hug anyone connected the thoroughfare and crook implicit backward to supply help. 

Ashley had a 'bright smile' and had a knack for bringing radical unneurotic and making 'everyone consciousness loved,' her parent said of the adventurous and witty teen. 

And the teen lived a batch beingness successful conscionable 14 years, having participated successful gymnastics, cheerleading, surfing, skating, learned to play guitar, and more. 

'I would accidental successful her 14 years, she lived much than idiosyncratic who is 80,' Anne told DailyMail.com. 'She had nary fears.' 

As the Christmas play rolls in, Ashley's tone volition stay live arsenic her friends and household present unrecorded by the 'Do it for Ashley' motto and volition transportation connected her bequest of making everyone consciousness seen and loved.