Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W was very much concerned upon learning about the August 4th 2020 suicide of Catherine Daisy Coleman because he was in Calendar Year 2013 a public employee of the Missouri Department of Mental Health (MODMH) Fulton State Hospital (FSH). As a former employee of the MODMH (FSH), it remains unclear to Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W whether or not his former employers (and their contractual partners) acknowledge as a matter of reality the fact that sexual assault is a factor increasing the risk of suicide. It also remains unclear to Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W if the Personal Health Information of Catherine Daisy Coleman reflected this risk. Via email, the MODMH have refused to deny that Catherine Daisy Coleman was a patient of Missouri Girls Town following the January 8th 2012 sexual assault she was a victim of (only confirming that Missouri Girls Town is indeed a contractual partner of the Missouri Department of Mental Health). It is the judgment of Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W that the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act enable current and former healthcare workers to express written objections to a specific course of medical treatment a patient is subjected to if the current or former healthcare worker believes the treatment to be discriminatory and/or racist and/or sexist in nature. It is also the judgment of Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W that the inconsistent legislative actions taken (in the State of California and the State of Missouri) following the suicides of Audrie Taylor Pott and Catherine Daisy Coleman merited discussions on the subject of “sexual assault as a factor increasing the risk of suicide” (particularly) among current and former healthcare workers.

According to public records of the California state government, “Senate Bill 838 is the direct result of the tragic death of Audrie Pott, a 15-year-old Saratoga High student who committed suicide after she was sexually assaulted while unconscious and photos of her were disseminated electronically.” To the extent of Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W’s knowledge, the first time the United States government recognized on a state level the fact that sexual assault is a factor increasing the risk of suicide was through the enactment of Audrie’s Law. As you may be aware, the California government has for a second time explicitly and formally recognized sexual assault as a factor increasing the risk of suicide when enacting into law the Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act on (or around) September 19th 2022. Indeed, the provisions of California’s Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act (seem to) implicitly refer to the sexual assaults of Catherine Daisy Coleman and Audrie Taylor Pott as well as other girls and women by recognizing that [1] thirty-three percent of women who are raped contemplate suicide; [2] thirteen percent of women who are raped attempt suicide...