Bloomington girl inspires messages against bullying

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WISH) - The tragic suicide of a 15-year-old Bloomington girl is rallying a community to put an end bullying.

Several messages of hope and survival are showing up on social media sites, following Tori Swoape's death.
Kaitlyn Hoy posted a video online after hearing about the suicide.

“She was 15 years old she had her whole life ahead of her,” she said.

Tori, a 15-year-old sophomore at Bloomington North High School, a bright student with plenty of friends, took her own life Tuesday.

Police and school officials said they've yet to find any signs that she was bullied.

However, her death has been a rallying cry for the community to stop bullying, and has inspired Kaitlyn to share her story.

“The fact that she never spoke out and no one ever knew anything is just kind of like my story,” she said.

Kaitlyn tells the story through note cards of the torment she faced at the hands of bullies. She said she suffered in silence for far too long.

“You come to a realization that maybe if I wasn't here anymore, this would not be a problem anymore, it wouldn't cause so many problems for every other person,” she said.

Kaitlyn's message is to never suffer in silence. Help is out there, she said, and life is too valuable to give up.

“The one thing I have a goal in my life - and by that video - is to make a change even if it’s just one person. That’s more than what it was two days ago,” she said.

Police are investigating the suicide and claims by her friends she was bullied. Both police and school officials say they never received a complaint Tori was the victim of bullying.

Watch Kaitlyn Hoy's video here: