Showing Original Post only (View all)
Nex Benedict's Family Releases Statement with New Information about Medical Examiner's Findings [View all]
Nex Benedicts Family Releases Statement with New Information about Medical Examiners Findings
Warns of allowing incomplete accounts to take hold and spread any further
By GLAADMarch 15, 2024
The family of Nex Benedict is speaking out about the incomplete and premature medical examiner report released earlier this week, and releasing new information they have learned from the medical examiner to ensure that other pertinent portions of the report are not overshadowed by the classification of Nexs death.
In the statement from their attorney, the Benedict family says they felt compelled to release the new information to avoid allowing incomplete accounts to take hold and spread any further.
GLAAD is elevating the familys information and urging reporters to continue to ask more questions about Nexs death and all that led up to it and after. Below, GLAAD has 16 key questions for reporters to ask about the medical examiners report, the history of controversy in the state medical examiners office including loss of accreditation, and ongoing questions about school and state leaders responsibility in failing to appropriately respond to the assault on Nex, the state-sponsored discrimination by harmful legislation and false rhetoric that remain safety issues for all Oklahoma students, and when or if officials are implementing any new measures to prevent, report and address bullying in Oklahoma schools.
Nex, a 16-year-old 2STGNC+ (Two Spirit, transgender, gender nonconforming+) student of Choctaw descent, died the day after a three-on-one fight in a restroom at Owasso High School in Owasso, Oklahoma last month. Nex had reported to police in the hospital following the attack that they had endured a year of bullying in the school, and that they did not believe the school would do anything to address the bullying. The Owasso police officer that the family, not the school, called to Nexs emergency room bedside the night before Nex died, discouraged Nexs family from filing a police report about the assault Nex endured in the school bathroom that afternoon.
[
]
More at link:
https://glaad.org/nex-benedicts-family-releases-statement-with-new-information-about-medical-examiners-findings/
https://pmatep5f7b.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ProdStage