Girl, 10, Who Killed Herself After Being Bullied About Migrant Deportations ‘Told Friends Shocking Secret’

An 11-year-old girl told friends she was being molested by a family member before committing suicide when bullies told her Trump would deport her.

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza’s mother said she took her own life after she was tormented for months over fears she and those close to her would be deported as part of the president’s war on illegal immigration.

She was found unresponsive in her home in Gainesville, Texas, on February 3 and spent five days in intensive care in Dallas before she died.

The Gainesville Independent School District investigated from February 6 and concluded she was bullied by another student more than once.

Jocelynn feared her classmates would report her family to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the school district confirmed.

Officials added that a student was disciplined for bullying, but didn’t disclose the punishment or identify the culprit.

But now it has emerged that the district’s ‘summary of findings’ also recorded that Jocelynn told friends she was ‘inappropriately touched by a family member’.

Investigators interviewed numerous students and multiple students said she told them about the alleged molestation, but swore them to secrecy.

GISD said it was required by law to inform Child Protective Services about the claims, as there were four other children living in the home.

Jocelynn’s mother, Marbella Carranza, told NBC the claim wasn’t true.

‘I don’t know why they committed, like, why he said that, because I talk with my daughter about that, always. I ask. Nobody can touch your body. Nobody,’ she said.

Carranza also disputed the district’s version of events, and insisted she was never told her daughter sought counseling for bullying both at home and school.

The district said it only learned Jocelynn was at risk of suicide after she was already dead, when it was told she shared suicidal thoughts with her cousin.

The cousin supposedly told Carranza, but the district was never informed and so the school said it wasn’t able to intervene and potentially save her life.

Jocelynn also told a school counselor she had been getting into trouble at home and her siblings called her names, but didn’t mention the bullying at school.

She was put into a social-emotional learning group, along with four other girls, led by a school counselor to help them with coping strategies to managing distressing emotions.

The group met twice in October, twice in November and three times in January.

Carranza demanded to see a permission slip the district said she signed to allow her daughter to participate.

How Jocelynn took her own life was not included, but her family insisted relentless bullying drove her to suicide, according to a GoFundMe page.

‘The kids said because your family is Hispanic, that they were going to call ICE so her parents could be taken away and she would be left alone,’ Carranza told the local Univision station.

Jocelynn reported the threats to the administrator because ‘the whole class was speaking about ICE and that (Carranza) had something she wanted to tell the principal,’ the district said earlier.

The student, whose gender was not revealed, made the remarks regarding ICE and deportation to a group of Hispanic students on the bus.

Jocelynn was not the specific target, but did hear what was said, the school said.

The school’s director of transportation backed up the girl’s story and added that it was not a ‘one-time occurrence’.

‘The student was identified, interviewed, and disciplinary consequences were issued by campus administration on January 31, 2025, in accordance with the GISD Student Code of Conduct,’ the district said.

Carranza’s mother, Marbella, claims she was never made aware of the torment her daughter had been enduring until after her death.

Independent School District Police Department it was actively investigating Jocelynn’s death.

Jocelynn’s funeral was held in the town on Sunday, her father said in a online post.

‘Please remember her kindly because she was a very happy girl,’ her mom said through tears.

‘Every day, she would tell me that she loved me.’