A mother’s text to Santa Sabina school the day after her 12-year-old died has raised questions about how the school responded to bullying.
On a Tuesday night, a mother sent a message to her daughter’s school. It was thick with shock, sorrow and guilt. Charlotte, who had faced “relentless friendship issues” and cried on her way to class almost every day, had been found dead that morning. Her farewell note cited bullying. She was 12 years old.
Charlotte’s parents told 2GB broadcaster Ben Fordham on Monday that they did not blame their daughter’s fellow year 7 students – “they are just little girls” – but had repeatedly asked for help from her school, Santa Sabina College in Strathfield. As recently as early August this year, her mother sent Santa Sabina a message saying Charlotte was too distressed to attend because she had been “coming home in tears”.In her griefstricken letter sent on September 10, Charlotte’s mother said her daughter didn’t deserve girls to “bark in her face or scream out her name and run away, to purposely hit her with their bag and say whoops. She deserved love and kindness.
Skerman was also unable to comment on the mental health of the former staff member but said the school had never received any reports from her or her family that she felt victimised. Skerman was on a flight to Perth when she received the news of Charlotte’s death and returned on the first flight available.
Parents of bullies were calling in solicitors to contest allegations, while high-fee independent schools were increasingly hiring lawyers to conduct investigations. “Right down to the interview, you’re handing this over to a lawyer with potentially no adolescent expertise to handle a traumatic incident,” Murrihy said.
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