The 12-year-old woman who took her personal life after college bullying drove her to despair left notes for her mother and father urging them to share her story to assist others.
Charlotte O’Brien, a 12 months 7 scholar at Santa Sabina Faculty at Strathfield in Sydney’s inner-west, took her personal life earlier this month after two years of distress the place she mentioned classmates had been utilizing confidential data to bully her relentlessly.
Her mother and father, Mat and Kelly, have now revealed the heartbreaking final notes left to them by their daughter together with one which mentioned: ‘Mama, please share my story to lift consciousness.’
Charlotte’s mother and father discovered the notes left in small pink handwriting after their daughter had taken her life within the upstairs bed room of the household house.
In different final messages, Charlotte informed her mother and father to ‘inform the varsity’ about her struggling and that life was ‘too onerous’.
One other notice referred to her adored toddler brother Will.
‘Please, Mama, stay for Will as a result of I can not anymore,’ it mentioned.
Mat and Kelly are nonetheless attempting to course of the numb shock of what has occurred.
Charlotte O’Brien, a 12 months 7 scholar at Santa Sabina Faculty at Strathfield in Sydney ‘s inner-west, took her personal life earlier this month
‘The opposite factor that’s troubling for us is that we had such a terrific final day along with her,’ Mat informed the Every day Telegraph.
‘I hadn’t seen her that completely satisfied coming house from college in a very long time.’
The mother and father mentioned Charlotte was effervescent with happiness as she ate her favorite dish, creamy hen pasta, for dinner and aced her maths homework getting each query proper and doing ‘little completely satisfied dances’.
She additionally baked banana bread and took a bit to her father, nonetheless in a joyously good temper.
After taking part in along with her mum and little brother she mentioned good evening and ‘actually skipped to the bathe’.
‘That is the final time we noticed her alive and we couldn’t perceive what had occurred,’ Mat mentioned.
Police informed the couple that an individual generally undertaking happiness earlier than taking their very own lives as a result of they consider they’ve settled on an answer to their probelms.
Charlotte’s mother and father strongly reject that rationalization.
Mat mentioned the household had mentioned their upcoming vacation, the place Charlotte wished to do a highway journey, and even about what she and him would work on as maths issues the subsequent day.
Charlotte’s mother and father Mat and Kelly have revealed the final messages left to them by their daughter
‘This isn’t a woman that was planning on doing this. One thing occurred when she went to her bed room,’ Mat mentioned.
Police are looking Charlotte’s telephone to see what messages she was receiving in her final hours.
Kelly stays wracked with guilt and remorse and requested why her daughter did not simply come ‘and get me to offer her a hug that evening?’
One factor that Kelly is adamant about is that they do not need folks to say this had ‘ruined their lives’ as a result of as devastating because the tragedy is ‘she’s what made us entire’.
The devastated mom mentioned her daughter at all times felt ‘large emotion’.
Charlotte was ‘sweetest, kindest, hardest, strongest little diva you have ever met in your life,’ Kelly mentioned.
Mat and Kelly consider Santa Sabrina Faculty may have finished extra to cease the bullying inflicted on Charlottoe acquired.
Emails between Charlotte’s mom Kerry O’Brien and the varsity reveal Ms O’Brien believed the bullying was having ‘extreme ramifications’ on her daughter’s psychological well being.
On the evening that she died CHarlotte appeared to be joyously completely satisfied and planning for the long run
Mat claimed different mother and father had additionally raised the ‘poisonous’ tradition of the varsity and that the varsity wanted to simply step in as adults’ and seperate youngsters.
The grieving mother and father mentioned colleges throughout the nation wanted to take a ‘zero tolerance’ to bullying.
Kelly claimed after GP known as what was taking place to Charlotte ‘harassment’ the varsity reject the time period and mentioned it was ‘juvenile behaviour’.
At one level in the direction of the top of 12 months 6 Kelly was shocked to see Charlotte’s arm lined in scratches.
Charlotte claimed she was simply itchy however her mom knew it was self-harm as a result of she felt overwhelmed.
Kelly mentioned on some days Charlotte would burst into tears as they approached college drop-off wailing that she ‘had no mates’, that everybody hated her and she or he was ‘a monster’.
Santa Sabina Faculty has defended its dealing with of bullying, saying their anti-bullying coverage was obtainable on their web site.
‘Up to now week, I’ve been overwhelmed by the variety of emails and messages from our households that speak about their youngsters feeling secure and cared for at Santa Sabina Faculty,’ Principal Paulina Skerman mentioned.
She mentioned mother and father ‘objected to the portrayal of our Faculty as failing to take care of issues that trigger misery amongst our college students.’
For confidential assist name Lifeline 13 11 14 or Children Helpline 1800 55 1800
