Parents of a teenager who was bullied so viciously that she took her own life have spoken out about their grief and are campaigning against the unwanted, aggressive behaviour.
“Breannah was thrown in front of a car, belted up on numerous occasions, hospitalised on multiple occasions. She lived in fear from the bullies,” the page read.
Michael said the Piva family made multiple complaints to the school over the years. The Pivas also discovered through information obtained by freedom of information laws that Breannah had made more than 20 complaints to the school over a period of three years.
“But nothing was done,” he told the news station.
Some of the complaints which were handwritten by Breannah detailed separate incidents of physical abuse.
“[Name withheld] threw a bottle of iced coffee at me and then came up behind me and rubbed marshmallow over my face and collar of my uniform,” one complaint read, reported 9News.
“All year she has given herself permission to hit me across the back of my head with either her books or her hand as hard as she can and even when I tell her to stop she says she has her own permission to do it,” another read.
Breannah also received serious verbal threats to her life.
The Pivas have now taken legal action against the high school over the intense bullying their daughter had suffered.
The family’s lawyer Sarah Sarinas said Breannah was “struggling to cope.”
“She was reaching out for help and support and she was let down time and time again by the school. They were aware of the problem and they didn’t fix it,” Sarinas told the news station.
“There are a pile of incident reports there and that’s what makes this case all the more shocking that nothing was done and it has led to tragic consequences for this family,” she added.
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