Miami child welfare workers refused to show up in court Tuesday to explain what went wrong before teen Nakia Venant took her own life in a Facebook Live video. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Maria ...
For two hours, Nakia Venant broadcast from the bathroom of her Miami Gardens foster home, eventually fashioning a homemade noose from her scarf. The live feed ended abruptly. Nakia, a petite ...
The mother of a Florida girl who live-streamed her suicide on Facebook Live allegedly left mocking messages on her daughter's post just moments before the teen hanged herself. According to the Florida ...
The too brief life of Nakia Venant, 14, was an unfolding tragedy of parental abuse, family instability, and emotional torture. In January 2017, Nakia decided to end her adolescent foster care hell by ...
MIAMI (AP) – The attorney representing the mother of a 14-year-old girl who broadcast her suicide on Facebook says the teen never received the help she needed from Florida’s foster care system. Howard ...