17 Year-Old Nigerian Teen Student Jumps To Death After She’s Caught Cheating

A bright Nigerian student at a top city high school was humiliated in front of her classmates for cheating on a test, and was so ashamed that she jumped to her death in the Hudson River on Thursday last week, sources told The New York Post.

Omotayo Adeoye, 17, of The Bronx, wrote a suicide note right on her German-language exam that read, “I just want to go away forever on the bottom of the river,” law-enforcement sources said.

Divers were still searching Friday night for the biology whiz in the waters off Washington Heights, where she

jumped in Thursday afternoon. The promising senior was caught peeking at her cellphone during the German test at the Harlem HS for Math, Science and Engineering, which is affiliated with the City College of New York.

Her teacher, “Eva Malikova, was walking around the room and saw [Adeoye] on her phone,” a male classmate said.  “She snatched it away from her and started screaming at her, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t be cheating! You guys shouldn’t be cheating! You guys are lying to yourselves!’ ”

Adeoye burst into tears, sobbing,“I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”

“Oh, you are not really sorry,” Malikova allegedly snapped back. “That’s not a sincere apology!”

Law-enforcement sources confirmed the classroom exchange.

At around 2:15 p.m., a teary-eyed Adeoye scrawled her desperate note on the test, and then asked to use the bathroom. She never returned — instead walking from the West 140th Street school to the Hudson River’s edge at West 165th Street. Shocked fishermen watched helplessly as she placed her ID on a rock, and then jumped in the water.

Credit: New York Post