Parents Furious After Learning of Daughter's Death on Facebook

By Rheana Murray, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Parents Furious After Learning of Daughter's Death on Facebook

November 29, 2012 Updated Nov 29, 2012 at 11:04 AM PDT

Two heartbroken parents want answers from a Georgia university after they learned about their daughter’s on-campus death through Facebook.

Nursing student Jasmine Benjamin, 17, was found dead earlier this month on a couch in her dorm’s common room at Valdosta State University. Her parents told CBS Atlanta police said she had been dead for at least 12 hours.

“That’s the most disturbing part of it,” Benjamin’s stepfather James Jackson said. “Aren’t there RAs? What kind of school is this that they don’t know someone’s laying on the couch, to go check on them after a certain number of hours?”

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