Heather Wyatt no longer faces slander lawsuit for claims about daughter Aubreigh’s suicide

The parents of four girls accused of bullying 13-year-old Aubreigh Wyatt into suicide voluntarily dismissed a slander lawsuit Tuesday afternoon that they filed July 2 against her mother, Heather Wyatt.

In the lawsuit, they said that Heather Wyatt slandered their girls by falsely claiming they bullied Aubreigh to death. Aubreigh, an Ocean Springs Middle School student, died by suicide on Labor Day.

Their filing dismissing the case says they are pursuing “other civil action” and also leaves open the option that they could re-file the slander case. The civil action could refer to a Chancery Court case headed for a hearing Thursday afternoon in Pascagoula.

In that case, Chancery Court Judge Mark Maples temporarily ordered Heather Wyatt to shut down social media accounts where she had written and talked on video about Aubreigh’s death. Wyatt has said she never mentioned the names of Aubreigh’s bullies, but other accounts have spread their photographs and personal information about the girls.

This story was originally published July 16, 2024 at 4:21 PM.

Anita Lee

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