AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Maine’s attorney general says no further investigation is needed into the suicide of a transgender boy at Long Creek Youth Development Center last fall.
Maine Public reports (https://bit.ly/2kkND2P ) that the state medical examiner found that 17-year-old Maisie Knowles had killed himself. And the Department of Corrections is reviewing what led to Knowles’ death as well as suicide prevention policies.
Knowles - who went by Charles - died at Maine Medical Center on Nov. 1, three days after being found unconscious and hanging in an isolation room while on a suicide watch.
He was being held in the female unit of Long Creek.
Democratic Attorney General Janet Mills said in a letter that the teen’s suicide note indicated a desire to no longer live without a romantic interest in his hometown.
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