What happened to Ricky's friend Amber?

I think the implication is that she may have either been very sick or she killed herself. Ricky says she started talking about death all the time and then one day she was dead. I imagine it has to do with the tough time kids go through while in the foster care/group home system. The scene works to convince Hector to stay with Ricky rather than turning him in. So I don't think she wasn't tough enough, just that she chose not to go on.

I don't know if I'm remembering the conversation correctly, but didn't Ricky say that Amber was making accusations about her foster dad? I think that's what I heard anyway. If so, it's likely that either he was molesting her or she was accusing him falsely. She died after that. We don't know whether it was suicide, a natural death or maybe even murder.

The implication was that she was being abused, nobody believed her, she killed herself.

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