Suicide Crisis: Five Indigenous Girls Under 15 Take Their Own Lives in Nine Days

File photo: A woman is silhouetted behind the Aboriginal flag in Sydney, Australia, on May 26, 2006. Ian Waldie/Getty Images

A 12-year-old Aboriginal girl from a community near Adelaide, South Australia committed suicide on Jan. 11, becoming the fifth Aboriginal child to take her own life in just nine days.

The Australian first reported the deaths involving girls all aged 15 or under.