Judge apparently orders Aubreigh Wyatt’s mom to remove social media accounts about her death

A judge has apparently ordered Heather Wyatt to take down her social media accounts, which include posts about the suicide of her daughter Aubreigh.

An emergency order, posted on TikTok and Facebook, says Wyatt must temporarily take down all her social media accounts “to protect the minor children involved in this case.”

The case, which appears in the electronic case file for Jackson County Chancery Court, was filed against Wyatt by the parents of four girls accused of bullying Aubreigh, who attended Ocean Springs Middle School.

While the parties are listed in the court record, the case documents — motions, judge’s orders and other records — are sealed from public view, so no other information is available about its contents. It is unclear how the emergency order, which appears to be authentic, wound up online.

To protect the identities of the minor girls, the Sun Herald is not naming the parents who filed the lawsuit.

But all four girls have been targeted by name on social media, especially on TikTok, and threatened because of Aubreigh’s death. None of the threats have come from Heather Wyatt. She also has never mentioned any of the girls’ names on social media.

While she talked about Aubreigh being bullied after she found her daughter dead in her room on Labor Day, Wyatt has even stopped talking online about bullying. Her videos instead focus on mental health and the grief suffered by her and her two surviving children, 16-year-old Taylor and 6-year-old Ryker.

“I thnk it (bullying) is a subject that needs to be addressed, but I don’t want to create hate for anyone, so I chose to only focus on the mental health aspect of it,” said Wyatt, a former Ocean Springs teacher who resigned months after Aubreigh’s death. “I felt like that would be helpful and it would also not cause any animosity or any conflict to any other individuals.”

Did cyberbullying lead to suicide?

Wyatt did call for justice for Aubreigh, but later said on social media that police were no longer pursuing the case, at least partly because Aubreigh was not alive to testify. Ocean Springs Police Chief Ryan Lemaire said the Wyatt investigation was completed and the results turned over to Youth Court, which found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

Heather Wyatt did file a lawsuit against social media companies, saying cyberbullying led to Aubreigh’s death.

Wyatt and her children have tried to go on with their lives. They visit Aubreigh’s grave on Sundays and recently celebrated Taylor’s 16th birthday, activities Heather Wyatt has shared on TikTok, the only social media where she has been active recently.

Last week, one of her TikTok videos went viral.

Wyatt said long ago that the family found no note from Aubreigh after her death. That changed last week. Heather Wyatt was videoing herself on her phone as she packed Aubreigh’s room for a family move. In the video, Wyatt screamed and burst into tears as she picked up sealed envelopes that Aubreigh had addressed to family members.

The video then cut to the envelopes laid out on the floor, each decorated with a hand-drawn heart and most signed “Aubs”. The video was short. It attracted more than 39 million page views and boosted Heather Wyatt’s following to more than 900,000 accounts.

Wyatt told the Sun Herald this week that she found the letters in a box of cards and other memorabilia in Aubreigh’s closet. The family hadn’t previously noticed the envelopes among all the others stored in the box, but Wyatt said she was sorting through them closely to decide what to take during the move.

Aubreigh had left notes for Heather, Taylor, Ryker, Heather’s brother Jeff Wyatt, who was like a father to Aubreigh, and one last letter addressed to everyone. Heather Wyatt is not ready to discuss what was in the notes, other than to tell the Sun Herald that the ever-thoughtful Aubreigh let family members know they could have whatever they wanted of her possessions.

‘It was hard to read but it provided us with another sense of love from Aubreigh,” Wyatt said in an interview. “We got to feel Aubreigh’s compassion and love again.”

Social media accounts on Aubreigh spread

As Wyatt’s TIkTok following has grown, so have accounts from other users with names such as LLAW, which stands for #LiveLikeAubreigh, a hashtag family and friends started using after her death, on social media, bracelets and T-shirts.

The people behind the accounts are unknown. Some talk about justice for Aubreigh. Other commenters have left outright or implied threats and hateful comments about the girls who they believe were bullying Aubreigh.

At least one of the girls accused of bullying Aubreigh has even been doxxed , with her home address listed repeatedly in comments.

Heather Wyatt said she has nothing to do with those accounts. Her own TikTok account is no longer available. Before it was taken down, she posted a video that explained why she was sharing her personal experience with suicide. She featured notes from from young people and others touched by her videos.

As a result of her TikToks, Wyatt said, she’s received “thousands” of messages from people who told her, “I’ve decided to stay.”

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