BULLYING TAKES ANOTHER LIFE TOO SOON "RIP EIRA MAGHUYOP"

A Westchester community is mourning after the loss of local teen who friends say was bullied to death. 14-year-old Eira Maghuyop is said to have left a suicide note which spoke to the bullying, and pointed to one major contributing factor. While the Yonkers Police Department has started an investigation and has reportedly taken the girl's computer for forensic examination, the family is left to try to unravel what lead up to her hanging herself in the family home. Maghuyop was a bright and beautiful young woman who was hiding a devastating sadness. Attending the exclusive Ursaline private all girls school in New Rochelle school, she said she dreamed of becoming a doctor or nurse, like her mother, that she loves music and wanted to be a mom. But the 14-year-old grew so despondent that she took her own life. Nick Viviani, a neighbor of the family shared his sympathies, saying, "To lose a child, at any age, it's rough." Eira's friends were quick to mourn on social media, calling it a bullycide--that Eira was driven to suicide because she could no longer take the taunts. Friends launched an anti-bullying FaceBook page in Eira's honor, it has swelled to more than 12,000 likes. They are also paying tribute through video remembrances. One teen boy who said he went to so far as to dye his hair to escape the taunts said on his condolence video, "I do know what it's like to be that far over the edge, I almost did it myself." The students and faculty at Ursaline, a Catholic School, which goes from Kindergarten through 12th grade, were also in mourning, eulogizing her at an assembly this morning. But at a parents' meeting last night, school officials stated the bullying did not happen at the hands of fellow Ursaline students. "They must have been cruel. Merciless, you know?" said Chris Poniatowski, a Senior at Iona Prep, the "brother school" to Ursaline. "It wasn't even girls from that school. Because she loved the school. It was people over Facebook, Twitter." We repeatedly requested information about any anti-bullying programs that Ursuline may have in place, but no school official would return our calls for comment on the existence of any of their programs. Leticia Lopez, the mother of an 8th grader was picking her daughter up after a day at class. Her husband had attended the parents' debriefing session the night before. "This is a very serious problem. These are our children, this is very important." Eira, who called herself 100% Filipino, was by all appearances a happy teen, professing love for her favorite shows: Vampire Diaries and The Secret Circle. She also blogged about her desire to be a singer. Friends of the family, some of whom work at NY Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center where Mom Faith is a nurse, were sharing their condolences throughout the day. Delreen Fordeis came at the end of a twelve hour nursing shift. She knew Eira wanted to be a doctor, or nurse like her mother. Fordeis said of Faith, "I think she really wants people to see her daughter for who she was." Eira is survived by her parents, younger and older brother and grandmother.