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

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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