More Light Shed on "Apple Suicide"

The New York Times is releasing even more details on the mysterious death of  Sun Danyong. As you may remember, Danyong was the Foxconn employee who died  after “jumping” from his 12th storie balcony after allegedly losing one of 16 new iPhone prototypes.

Danyong’s girlfriend has now told the media she received the following text from Danyong moments before his death. “Dear, I’m sorry. Go back home tomorrow,” he wrote. “I ran into some problems. Don’t tell my family. Don’t contact me. I’m begging you for the first time. Please do it! I’m sorry.”

It was alleged security at Foxconn humiliated, “tortured”,  and harassed Danyong at work. Foxconn later suspended a senior security official, but to this point denies any wrong doing. Instead Foxconn’s China general manager James Lee told the NYT that Sun had a history of disappearing products.  “Several times he had some products missing, then he got them back,” and that they “don’t know who took the product, but it was at his stop.”

So what does a company like Foxconn do to smooth things over? The NYT reports the company has given Danyong’s family $44,000 and his girlfriend…a MacBook. Way to smooth things over Foxconn.

[Via NYT]