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California Mom Blames LGBT Coaching for ‘Brainwashed’ Teen’s Suicide

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California Mom Blames LGBT Coaching for ‘Brainwashed’ Teen’s Suicide
Yaeli Martinez (R) and her mother Abigail Martinez. Courtesy of Abigail Martinez
Brad Jones
Brad Jones
3/23/2022|Updated: 8/11/2022
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A grieving California mom says her severely depressed teen daughter was encouraged to leave her family, go into foster care, and begin taking cross-sex hormones, after which she developed unbearable pain and killed herself by lying down across the tracks in front of a train.

Abigail Martinez, 53, alleged that school staff at Arcadia High School—without her knowledge or consent—encouraged her daughter Yaeli to join an LGBT club that met at the school during lunchtime.

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