The suicide of the 15-year-old son of an opposition MP has sparked an outpouring of grief but also anger towards the ruling party and media associated with it, whose reporting helped publicly identify the boy as the victim of sexual abuse. A record number of suicide attempts by children and adolescents have been recorded in Poland this yearPolice data show over 1,500 by the end of September, already more than in the whole of 2021. advisory board memberUNESCO Professor at the Jagiellonian University and Professor Emeritus at University College Londonadvisory board memberProfessor of European Studies at Oxford Universityadvisory board memberProfessor at the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian Universityadvisory board memberExecutive Director of Taube Family Foundationadvisory board memberAssociate Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Science, member of the Polish parliamentsadvisory board memberAuthor, winner of 2018 Nobel Prize in LiteratureauthorSiobhan Doucette is a historian whose work focuses the opposition movement in Communist Poland