Fifteen-year-old Tovonna Holton, Florida teen, had taken her own life after the release of a video through Snapchat. This release contained a video of Holton in the shower and was spread throughout her peers on Snapchat without her permission. After, this poor girl was driven to suicide from the ridicule, using her own mother's handgun:

"'I said, ‘My baby! My baby!’' a visibly distraught Levon Holton-Teamer, Holton’s mother, recalled through tears in a video for WFLA. 'I couldn’t get in the bathroom…so I tried to get in, and I look down. I seen a puddle of blood.' Holton-Teamer told the station that she tried to save her daughter by applying pressure to her head before dialing 911."

Holton's mother had reported this ongoing bullying that her daughter suffered many times before, but the school did not take any action in order to fix it. Now, this mother is left with nothing but images of her bloody, dead, 15-year-old daughter haunting her mind.

The case is still under investigation, but there is evidence leading to the conclusion that it was Holton's ex-boyfriend who had released the video after the couple had broken up as an act of revenge. While this detail isn't proven, it is one of the possibilities.

However, the reasoning behind the release of the nude video is not the crucial fact in this tragedy. It is the fact that, sadly, there are many teens like Tovonna Holton that are driven to suicide in order to escape the harsh tortures of their bullying.

"The personal tales of teens who have killed themselves because of cyber bullying are almost too numerous to keep up with. This month, 15-year-old Shania Sechrist hanged herself in her Pennsylvania family home after being harassed on Facebook and through text messages. In January, David Molak, a high school sophomore in San Antonio committed suicide after being relentlessly bullied, primarily on Instagram and through texting... Some of the most high-profile cases of teens committing suicide after being bullied online include Amanda Todd, who posted a now-famous video to YouTube about her abuse — most notably, a Facebook profile her tormentor created featuring a topless photo of her — before hanging herself a month before her 16th birthday."

While it is easy to blame social media for these countless deaths, Nancy Lublin, founder and CEO of the Crisis Text Line, says social media isn’t the problem, people are. After all, it is not the social media accounts that drive these teens into suicide, but the people that attack them through it. This is a crisis that has yet to be fixed, and hopefully, one day, we can live in a world without any more tragedies like Tovonna Holton's.

Teens (or anyone) in crisis can also call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 24/7, anonymously, at 800-273-8255.