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Snapchat Suicide: 15-Year-Old Tovonna Holton’s Nude ‘Revenge Porn’ Video, Photos — Ex-Boyfriend Responds

By Paula Mooney
Published on: 14:58 PST, Jun 9, 2016

Tovonna Holton is a 15-year-old girl who took her own life when Snapchat photos and video of a naked Tovonna allegedly spread around her school. As reported by the Daily Beast, the death of Holton by her own hands is being called a case of bullying and revenge porn, even if all the details behind Tovonna’s death aren’t clear.

According to Tovonna’s mother, Levon Holton-Teamer, Tovonna was sent to clean her room on Sunday, and that’s when she took her own life with her mother’s gun. Levon said she tried to enter the bathroom and couldn’t enter. When she got in, she discovered Tovonna bleeding from the head and a puddle of blood.

Tovonna had recently told her mother about naked Snapchat photos, allegedly taken without Tovonna’s permission. A freshman at Wiregrass Ranch High School in Wesley Chapel, Florida, Tovonna told her mother that she owed people something — but her mother couldn’t figure out what her daughter meant.

Tovonna’s aunt, Angel Scott, tried to find answers to her niece’s suicide via Facebook. Instead of photos, Tovonna’s aunt learned that it was a Snapchat video of Tovonna that had been spread online. As a result of Tovonna’s untimely death, the hashtag #stopbullying has spread.

Now Tovonna’s family wants someone to pay, but the details are still being sorted out on how the video of Tovonna spread. The Daily Beast reports that it was Tovonna’s ex-boyfriend who posted Tovonna’s nude video on Twitter — and only after he and Tovonna had broken up. Christian Coyle-Watts, Tovonna’s friend, reported that Tovonna and her boyfriend had fought on Saturday night– the evening before Tovonna killed herself.

Tovonna and her boyfriend broke up Sunday morning, prior to Tovonna committing suicide. According to Christian, Tovonna was aware that a friend had posted her video, however, when Tovonna’s boyfriend did so, Christian claims it was in a negative manner.

“Tovonna knew [her friend] posted the video, but Tovonna’s boyfriend posted it, trying to expose her in a derogatory way. He did it just because he knew he could, and it would hurt her feelings.”

However, below are tweets from a Twitter account that is trying to tell a different story than the revenge porn narrative — perhaps because revenge porn is a serious crime that could potentially bring charges if true.

In a post published on June 9, the Twitter account belonging to one whom the Daily Beast says was Tovonna’s ex-boyfriend — a guy who wouldn’t return messages to the publication — tweeted about missing Tovonna and posted a note about setting the record straight.

“She was so beautiful. I wish I can go back in time and prevent all of this. No one is at fault. She had problems going on that no one knew about. Let my angel rest in peace.”

He wrote that it would be the last time he’d talk about the situation so that everyone could get it clear. According to him, Tovonna didn’t have any Snapchat nude videos or photos. He claimed there were only two “Snaps” or Snapchat photos and/or videos of Tovonna.

In one of the Snapchat sessions Tovonna was wearing a two-piece bathing suit. In the other Snapchat, Tovonna was indeed in the shower as reported, but he wrote that only the side of Tovonna’s body was showing. He wrote that the Snapchat took place on Saturday, on graduation day, prior to Tovonna coming over his house.

That particular Snapchat photo or video of Tovonna only existed online for about two hours because he told her to take it off, he claimed. According to him, Tovonna wasn’t worried about that Snapchat photo or video. He claims that he told Tovonna to take it down because he didn’t like what was on Snapchat.

He claimed bullying wasn’t the issue at all and that Tovonna had plenty of other things on her mind all at the same time and that she was the kind of person that reacted without thinking.

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