I may be wrong, but I am not aware of anywhere HLA has said that suicide attempts do not occur. Can you site, and show, your source on that?
Also, who in the LCSO is qualified to distinguish between a suicide attempt and an incident of self harm? They are two very different things that I doubt the LCSO is trained to know the difference between.
The child may have tried to kill herself, I am just saying you can't really count on bubba from the sheriffs office to be able to make that call.