Charlotte O’Brien’s selfless final wish before she took her own life after being bullied at school – as her heartbreaking notes to her parents are revealed

The 12-year-old girl who committed suicide after being bullied at school left notes for her parents urging them to share her story to help others.

Charlotte O’Brien, a first-year student at Santa Sabina College in Strathfield, Sydney’s west, committed suicide earlier this month after two years of suffering. She said her classmates used confidential information to bully her relentlessly.

Her parents, Mat and Kelly, have now revealed the heartbreaking final notes their daughter left them, one of which read: ‘Mum please share my story to raise awareness.’

Charlotte’s parents found the notes, written in small pink handwriting, left behind after their daughter committed suicide in the first-floor bedroom of the family home.

In other final messages, Charlotte told her parents to tell the school about her suffering and that life was “too hard.”

Another note was about her beloved brother Will.

“Please, Mama, live for Will, because I can’t anymore,” it said.

Charlotte found out she was going to be a big sister 17 months ago when her mother told her she was having a boy.

She didn’t wish for anything for her birthday the following year, because all she wanted was a little brother or sister.

Mat and Kelly are still trying to process the shock of what happened.

“The other thing that concerns us is that we had such a great last day with her,” Mat told the Daily Telegraph.

‘I hadn’t seen her come home from school so happy in a long time.’

According to her parents, Charlotte was overjoyed when she ate her favorite dish, creamy chicken pasta, for dinner, completed her math homework and answered every question correctly, and did “little happy dances.”

She also baked banana bread and took a piece to her father, who was still in a cheerful, good mood.

After playing with her mother and brother, she said goodnight and literally jumped into the shower.

“That was the last time we saw her alive and we couldn’t understand what had happened,” Mat said.

Police told the couple that people sometimes radiate joy before committing suicide because they think they have found a solution to their problems.

Charlotte’s parents strongly reject this explanation.

Mat said the family had discussed the upcoming vacation, that Charlotte wanted to take a road trip, and that they had even talked about the math problems she and he would do the next day.

“This isn’t a girl who planned to do this. Something happened when she went to her bedroom,” Mat said.

Police are searching Charlotte’s phone to see what messages she has received in the last few hours.

Kelly continues to be plagued by guilt and regret, wondering why her daughter didn’t just come over to my house “and give her a hug that night?”

Kelly is adamant that she doesn’t want people to say this “ruined their lives.” Because as terrible as the tragedy is, “it made us whole.”

The mother was devastated and said her daughter always felt “big emotions.”

She described Charlotte as ‘the sweetest, kindest, toughest, strongest diva you will ever meet in your life’.

Mat and Kelly believe that Santa Sabrina College could have done more to stop the bullying Charlotte faced.

Emails between Charlotte’s mother and the school show Kelly believed the bullying was having a “serious impact” on her daughter’s mental health.

Mat claimed that other parents had also raised the issue of the ‘toxic’ culture at the school and that the school should step in as adults and separate the children.

The grieving parents said schools across the country should adopt a “zero tolerance policy” towards bullying.

Kelly claimed the school rejected the term ‘harassment’ after the GP described Charlotte as ‘intimidation’, which she said was ‘youthful behaviour’.

At one point, toward the end of sixth grade, Kelly was shocked to see that Charlotte’s arm was covered in scratches.

Charlotte claimed she was just itchy, but her mother knew she was hurting herself because she felt overwhelmed.

Kelly said that on some days Charlotte would burst into tears when they left school, whining that she “had no friends”, that everyone hated her and that she was “a monster”.

Santa Sabina College defends its approach to bullying by stating that its anti-bullying policy is on its website.

“Over the past week, I have been overwhelmed by the number of emails and messages from our families telling me how safe and cared for their children are at Santa Sabina College,” said Principal Paulina Skerman.

She said parents “objected to the way our school was being portrayed as one that is not addressing issues that are causing stress for our students.”

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