{{In The Unite States, parents of a college freshman who was found dead on campus say they found out about her death on Facebook.}}<\/p>\n
Jasmine Benjamin, a 17-year-old nursing student at Valdosta State University from Lawrenceville, Ga., was found dead in a study area in her dorm on Nov. 18. <\/p>\n
According to CBS Atlanta, police are treating the death as a homicide, pending the results of an autopsy.<\/p>\n
Jasmine’s parents say the school did not inform them of her death, learning about it instead through a friend’s Facebook post.<\/p>\n
“For someone to be so insensitive not to reach out to the family, it’s very, very hurtful to say the least,” James Jackson, Jasmine’s stepfather, told the network.<\/p>\n
School officials say campus police notified Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department, which then notified her parents.<\/p>\n
Jackson said police told him that Jasmine “had been dead for at least 12 hours before she was found, because passers-by thought she was simply sleeping on the study room couch,” adding to the family’s frustration.<\/p>\n
“That’s the most disturbing part,” Jackson said. “What kind of school is this that they know someone’s laying on the couch to go check on them after a certain amount of hours?”<\/p>\n
The parents told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution late last week that they were initially told their daughter died of natural causes. <\/p>\n
“To find out it was a homicide and that somebody actually murdered our daughter changed everything,” Jackson said. “It was like hearing the news all over again.”<\/p>\n
In a statement released Monday, the university said it is “continuing to work with law enforcement agencies in their ongoing investigation.”<\/p>\n
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