The parents of a teenage boy have forgiven and won’t be pressing charges against the girl who posted an embarrassing photo of their son online the night before he killed himself.

Reid Adler was 15 when he took his own life in his bedroom in Omaha, Nebraska, on January 7.

Six months later, his devastated parents Mark and Joni Adler are still trying to figure out if they could have more to save their son’s life.

But Reid’s father has said that they won’t pursue legal action against the teenage girl who bullied their son, the Omaha World-Herald reports.

Instead, they are using their faith to try to move forward and build something positive from their situation, Adler said.

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Reid Adler (top right, with his family) killed himself after a girl posted an embarrassing photo he had sent her online - but his devastated parents said they have forgiven the girl

‘She’s already carrying probably one of the worst sentences she could ever carry,’ he told the newspaper.

‘She knows why my son took his life – and she has to live with that.’

However, Adler said may one day look into whether Nebraska law provides sufficient consequences when an individual’s irresponsible actions lead to someone’s death.

He is the superintendent of Ralston Public Schools, but the girl is no longer in attending a school in the district.

Reid’s mother said she exchanged messages on Instagram with the girl, the World-Herald reports.

She wanted to find out more about her, she said, and in one message, told the teenager she was forgiven.

Reid had been in middle school when he took a picture of his ‘private area’ and sent it to the girl.

She had reportedly been threatening to share it online if Reid didn’t comply with her demands, his father said.

Mark and Joni Adler (pictured with Reid) said they took their son to counseling after he expressed suicidal thoughts a month before his death, but regret not doing more

Mark and Joni Adler (pictured with their children Reid, Jade and Kamille) only found out about the picture that led to Reid's death afterward he killed himself

On the evening of January 6, when he was a freshman at Ralston High School, the girl posted the picture on a website called Omaha Purge – a site dedicated to posting material that is embarrassing – at around 8pm.

The following morning, at around 7.20am, Joni Adler went to wake up her son and found him dead. The cause of death was suffocation.

At the time, the couple’s older daughter Jade was already at school but their younger daughter Kamille was upstairs in her bedroom, getting ready for school.

Adler was in his bedroom ironing his son’s pants.

Shortly after his death, his parents said their son had a 'vigor for life' and made friends everywhere he went, the Ralston Recorder reported.

Adler said his son shouldn’t have sent a picture of his ‘private area’ to the girl in question - and he believes his son knew that. But Reid didn’t deserve to pay for the mistake with his life, he said.

‘He apparently didn’t know how to handle it, so he took his own life,’ he said.

His parents believe the picture had probably been haunting their son for almost a year – but they don’t believe he was depressed or had intended to kill himself.

‘I don’t think Reid was depressed and I don’t think Reid planned on taking his life that night, because on our computer was his AP English homework that he had to turn in the next day, completely done,’ he said.

But Adler did add that his son had expressed suicidal thoughts about a month before his death – and so he and his wife attended therapy sessions with their son.

However, the parents weren’t aware of the picture until after their son died.

In December last year, Reid had sent a note to this mother saying he sometimes felt like he didn’t want to live – and had watched videos about suicide which urged viewers to talk to someone if they felt like harming themselves.

Mark Adler (above, with Reid) hopes speaking up about how important it is for parents to communicate with their kids - especially when it comes to mental health and suicide - will help others

The Adlers immediately took their son to counseling – and Reid was willingly attended, although he was nervous during his first session.

His mother went along to every session and Adler attended some, he said.

The sessions went well, and the Adlers were happy they were able to talk to their son and express how much they loved him.

But Adler said he still found it difficult to talk to his son about suicide.

The morning after Reid’s note to his mother, Adler texted his son.

‘I basically told him this is how special you are, the things I love about you. I said, ‘Whatever’s bothering you, we will help you. It doesn’t matter what it is.’

Reid replied, telling his father that he trusted him and loved him and that he was sorry – who told him not to be.

Adler added: ‘He writes back to me – and, probably, this is one of my only regrets – he said, ‘Some of this stuff is embarrassing and so it would be hard to tell you, so I just keep it in’.’

He replied, telling his son it didn’t matter what it was. ‘Buddy, we got this,’ he wrote.

He felt like he had opened a door, but Reid never told him what was troubling him.

He believes his son worried about how the picture’s revelation would have affected his job as the superintendent.

‘What I regret is I should have just went to him the very first time I could and said, ‘What is it? What’s going on?’’ Adler said.

‘I didn’t do that. And I don’t know why I didn’t. I just didn’t. Looking back on it, I wish I had.’

Now, the Adlers want to spread awareness about suicide and mental health.

They hope speaking about how important it is for parents to communicate with their kids will help prevent other parents from the tragedy they have endured.

They set up the Reid Adler Memorial Kindness Scholarship, some of it funded by donations from well-wishers.

It gives an award of $1,000 to at least one senior graduating from Ralston High each year.

Recipients are also given $250 to pay forward or use to do something kind.