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Friends and family of 12-year-old cyberbully victim speaks out on vile abuse before tragic suicide

The tragic Queens girl who hanged herself in her bedroom yesterday afternoon was mercilessly teased by classmates who called her a slut, a whore and mocked her failures with boyfriends and choices in music, friends and family said.

Gabrielle Molina, 12, was found by her screaming sister at 2:30 p.m. yesterday in the small Queens Village home she shared with her parents and two siblings.

The tiny pre-teen — who barely stood 5-ft tall — left behind an anguished suicide note that referenced her torment and apologized to her family for taking her own life.

“She was bullied,” said her classmate at I.S.109 Samantha Marin, 12. “They would say she was emo and goth. She said that she wanted to move schools because she felt uncomfortable. People wanted to jump her. She also broke up with her boyfriend recently.”

Molina’s sobbing father, George Molina, said that his petite daughter was slowly wearing down from the constant emotional abuse.

“I was trying to comfort her because she was getting weak,” he said. “I wanted to make her happy. Her sister and her mom took her to the mall and told her, ‘Gabby you can get whatever you want.’ That was three weeks ago. She said, ‘Daddy, I’m going to be fine.'”

The little girl was also heckled in a YouTube video that depicted her getting beaten up by a former best friend near the school in recent months, a family source said. Gabby’s father fumed that the school did not respond quickly enough when she complained to administrators.

But schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said that a preliminary investigation did not reveal any serious bullying issues at the Queens middle school.

However, the school was given a troubling “C” for its environment in the city’s officials 2012 progress reports.

“Any child that takes his or her life is something that deeply concerns me and hurts me as a parent and not just as a chancellor,” Walcott said. “I don’t think I knew the word suicide when I was 12-years-old or 11-years-old and you hear students talking about it, so it’s something that is very pressing on their minds and it’s something of concern to me.”

Friends and family described Molina as a generally upbeat girl who experienced swings in her mood and behavior. Her depression sank to the point that she began cutting herself, a friend said.

That troubling behavior soon led to additional mocking from classmates.