Daisy Coleman Research Paper

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A pajama party with her friend at home, watching scary movies and drinking. That’s how the nightmare of Daisy Coleman, a 14-year-old Cheerleader who was living in Maryville, started. Days before, she started texting with Mathew Barnett, a senior football player that she knew at high school. The night of the pajama party, Daisy and her friend Paige were invited by Mathew to his home, and they said yes. The girls had to sneak away through the windows basement of Daisy’s house. When they arrive to Mathew’s home, the girls realized that there were some other friends of him. Immediately, they started to drink shots of alcohol. The events that happened then of that were forgotten by Daisy. However, her friend Paige remember that a Mathew’s friend

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