The mother of Nex Benedict — the non-binary Oklahoma teen who was assaulted in a school bathroom and died the following day — is raising doubts about statements released by the local police. On Wednesday, the Owasso Police posted a statement to the department’s Facebook page, which appeared to defend the Owasso High School’s response to the February 7 incident. The statement also suggested that Nex’s death the following day was unrelated to the bathroom assault. In a text exchange with Popular Information, Sue Benedict, Nex’s mother, said she considered the Owasso Police statement a “big cover” and believed it was only released as “something to calm the people.”
A teenage non-binary child was beaten within an inch of their life and drops dead the next day. Honestly, I doubt the toxicology report will show anything. If you’ve read the reports it is downright grizzly what those girls did to them. Unbelievable violence, cruelty, and unspeakable acts. They brutalized this innocent child for being themselves for being different. It was hatred pure and simple that motivated this inhuman crime.
Even if, let’s say, the toxicology reports show that they did take their life. What exactly does that change? The assaulters beat them within an inch of their life. How can you imagine someone could go on living after that happened to them? Is it any less murder because the victim literally lost the will to live after being brutalized by 3 of their peers? It’s just disgusting that those girls aren’t in holding cells right now. I had to stop reading the reports at several points. It’s horrifying. Even considering the assaulters were all also minors, it doesn’t in any way diminish the horrific nature of their actions.