Tennessee mom fights to make ‘coercive suicide’ a crime after daughter’s death

A Middle Tennessee mother is turning her heartbreak into hope — and a potential law change — after losing her daughter to what she calls coercive suicide.

Candi Sparks lost her daughter, Grace Anne Sparks, in September 2019. At first, Candi was told Grace Anne died by suicide. But when investigators looked deeper, a darker truth emerged.

When Grace Anne was 13, she used a social media app that connected her to a stranger — a man in Indiana who was 20 years old…

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