Harassed for months, a young 13-year-old schoolgirl thought of the worst to put an end to her ordeal, to the point of writing a farewell letter for her family. The teenager’s mother found it in time and what she read left her speechless.
When you become a parent, you never imagine one day coming across this kind of letter, written in the handwriting of your own child. Unfortunately, with the scourge of school bullying which affects on average more than one student per class, many young people put down on paper their suffering and their dark thoughts in the face of the ordeal they endure. As if to externalize or to justify their decisions to those close to them. This is the case of Océane, a 13-year-old girl, who wrote a moving farewell letter to her mother, reports the site Actu.fr. Harassed for three months in a college, located near Perpignan, the young girl at the end of her tether thought of the worst to put an end to her hell.
The letter was ready, she had carefully hidden it in her room and her mother should have (in principle) “find her when she’s gone”. Except that she discovered it in time, on February 13, before Océane decided to take action. “This bomb hidden at the bottom of a drawer made my mother’s heart explode. I read it and I collapsed”, confided the mother to our colleagues. On this checkered sheet, the young teenager justifies the difficult decision she made. “If I left, it’s for a good reason, please don’t cry…”, she begins by writing.
Further on, Océane explains that she is exhausted by the harassment she endures on a daily basis. “Between staying 24 hours alone, (the first name of the harassing student, editor’s note) who makes fun of me and only getting good grades: it was too much… If I got left, tell yourself that I would be better off there -high in heaven surely”, she writes. Faced with these powerful words, the mother quickly tried to contact her daughter: “She broke down and told me she couldn’t take it anymore,” she emphasized to Perpignan news. Then, secondly, as a parent, she also asked herself where she had failed in her role. “Océane confides in me a lot. I knew from the start. I intervened immediately. From the college, from this young girl’s parents. Unfortunately, it was not taken seriously enough for Océane to feel good.” explains the mother who decided to go further, by reporting to the rectorate and the public prosecutor. So that the situation stops and Océane finally finds her smile again.