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Teen committed suicide after parents wouldn’t let her go to party

Ns News Online DeskNs News Online Desk: NYC-A 14-year-old girl who committed suicide by jumping from her Greenwich Village apartment building was upset over not being allowed to go to a friend’s birthday party, sources said on Thursday.

The teenager leaped to her death from her bedroom window on the 15th floor of the co-op late Wednesday afternoon after an argument with her parents, according to police sources.

The girl had recently gotten into trouble for shoplifting from a Barnes and Noble and a poor report from a parent-teacher conference earlier in the week, the sources said.

After the argument with her parents on Wednesday afternoon over the birthday party — the girl locked herself into her room and then removed the screen from her window, according to the sources.

She plummeted from the Greenwich House at 54 W. 16th St. at about 4:50 p.m. Wednesday, according to police

Her parents had desperately tried to pry open the bedroom door, but by the time they gained access to her room it was too late, sources said.

The girl landed on top of a scaffolding on Sixth Avenue and was declared dead at the scene.

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