"trotsky" wrote:
This non-binary kid was beaten so severely in school that he died from
his [sic] injuries.
More information has been revealed on the death of Nex Benedict, the 16-
year-old girl whose death was exploited by the media to pretend anti-trans
bigotry led to her death.
Originally, the media suggested she was gender non-binary. They claimed she
was abused by other students at her high school, beaten up in a bathroom, and
then died due to injuries from the fight.
It turns out, not one element of that was true. It turns out, Benedict
started the fight in the bathroom. It turns out, Benedict had returned to her
normal state of health after that fight.
And it turns out, Benedict committed suicide. So every major element of the
mainstream media�s report was false.
New details have now come to light about the life of Nex Benedict, which
demonstrate as per usual, when young people commit suicide, it is not because
society is mean to them due to their gender non-binary status; it is largely
because there are extreme mental health co-morbidities with that
identification.
That is particularly true in this case � a tragic, horrifying case. As
RedState reported:
Now that we have the full autopsy report for Dagney (Nex) Benedict,
many of the questions surrounding her overdose have been answered. The
full report, released by the Chief Medical Officer and Board of
Medicolegal Investigations on March 27th, 2024, confirms what the
earlier Medical Examiner�s Office reported on March 13th, 2024. There
were �massive� amounts of Diphenhydramine, more commonly known over
the counter as Benadryl,� in Dagney�s blood.
Dr. Paul Wax, the Executive Director of the American College of
Toxicology, reviewed the results and confirmed she could have consumed
50 to 100 pills to reach that toxicity level. Her routine medication,
fluoxetine, for bipolar disorder was present and may have contributed,
a second authority concluded. Her death was intentionally self-
inflicted.
The report indicated, �The 11 pages released indicate handwritten notes
�suggestive of self-harm� were found in Nex�s room by family members,
and that the teen has a history of �bipolar disorder, depression,
anxiety, self-harm (cutting).�
While advocacy groups remain insistent that her distress sourced from
bullying at school, Dagney did not indicate this in her last notes.
The Owasso Police Department released a statement saying, �Although
the notes do not make any reference to the earlier fight or difficulties
at school, the parents indicated that Benedict reported being picked
upon for various reasons while at school.�
As is usual in these cases, there is much more to the story. A hint was
provided by the Washington Post on February 21st, 2024, that never made
it beyond that report. Describing Dagney�s funeral, the article states
that Dagney�s cousin spoke �along with her mother and Benedict. Nex�s
biological mother was among the mourners; their father, who is in
prison for abuse, was not.�
So where was Dad? What happened to the father? RedState continues the story,
saying:
On July 17th, 2019, when Dagney was 11 years old, an arrest warrant
was issued for James Everette Hughes, Dagney�s father. He was arrested
on July 31st, 2019, in Sebastian County, AR. The charge was for rape of
a minor under the age of 14, during the time period between May 2017
and August 2017, when Dagney was nine years old. Among many witnesses
was Sue Benedict, the grandmother who would adopt Dagney in 2019.
Hughes would accept a plea deal to sexual assault in the second degree
on November 27th, 2019. He was sentenced to five years in prison with
ten years suspended. He would be placed on the sex offender list and
have no contact with his daughter. He was arrested again on January
25th, 2024, by the Little Rock Police Department for failing to comply
with reporting as a sex offender.
That was two weeks before Dagney took her own life. The details of the rest
of this story are difficult to read.
Hughes� new case, in Pulaski County, AR, 60CR-24-894: State v. James
Everette Hughes, was filed on March 5th, 2024 for the offense of failing
to register as a sex offender or report address change. � Case details
are difficult to read, and the following information is graphic. In the
report, Dagney, age 11, would tell investigators her father anally raped
her when she was nine years old. She reported he had molested her for
years prior.
This is obviously a story of horrific physical sexual abuse of a child by her
own father that resulted in confusion, mental illness, and problems that
deserve nothing but sympathy.
But the media treated this as a case of conservative anti-trans bigotry,
which is insane, sick, and wrong. Will the media walk any of what they did
back here?
Of course not because their original story backs their particular narrative.
That particular narrative is that America is a terrible, horrible, no good,
very bad place.
And their proof of that is that Nex Benedict, a young girl, committed suicide
and that she must have done so because society was too mean to her � as
opposed to the very specific circumstances of what appears to be a deeply
tragic life.
-- Let's go Brandon!
Re: Nex Benedict