Alleged rape victim Daisy Coleman's mother said that her family had been driven from her Maryville, Missouri home, while their house was mysteriously burned down after her daughter accused a popular high school football player of rape last year, The Daily Mail reported. Those allegations were later dropped by authorities.
Coleman had been subjected to incessant cyber-bullying from her classmates and parents alike after she reported that she was raped in January 2012.
"She told police the 17-year-old boy invited her to a party where she became so intoxicated she couldn't stand and that had sex with her while a friend filmed the incident on an iPhone," The Daily Mail reported.
Coleman said she and her friend were drinking before going to his house where they "snuck in through his basement window. He gave me a big glass of a clear liquid. And That's all I remember," she said on CNN.
After sex, the high school football player and his friends allegedly dumped her on her front porch where the 14-year-old passed out. She was wearing barely any clothing. Coleman developed frostbite on her hands and feet when her mother found her several hours later, according to news reports.
'It wasn't until I undressed her to put her in a warm tub that I realised that maybe she had been sexually assaulted. So I asked her if she was hurting, and she said yes, and started to cry,' her mother Melinda Coleman told CNN.
Since the allegations, the Coleman family has received backlash from the city. Melinda Coleman had lost her job as a veterinarian, a result of her daughter's police report, The Kansas City Star reported.
The victim's three brothers were threatened at school as well.
"Town officials and many residents had made it clear that she was no longer welcome in the town of 12,000" according to The Daily Mail.
Coleman's rape allegation charges were dropped by city officials. When that was announced, one girl at Coleman's school tweeted, "F*** yea. That's what you get for bein a skank," The Daily Mail also reported.
'Basically I was terrified, I wanted to protect my children, I wanted to get them out of there,' she told The Daily Mail.
Eight months after her family moved away, their house in Maryville burned down. Melinda Coleman belies the cause may be arson.
'On one hand, it would almost be a comfort to think it was an electrical problem that caused the fire, but on the other other hand, there's a part of me that really thinks that the fire could be part of all this,' she said.
Coleman said that her daughter has suffered both from the assault and the online abuse, but has undergone therapy. She is beginning to move past the trauma, her mother said, according to news reports.
