An eight-year-old girl has written a heartbreaking note about being bullied at school and said ‘I want to die’.
Mother-of-two Naomi O’Neill, 28, from Liverpool, was left devastated after she found the handwritten note at the bottom of her eldest daughter Millie’s bed.
When she sat her daughter down she was stunned to discover she had been bullied for weeks – and claims one pupil told Millie he would ‘kill her family’.
Mother-of-two Naomi O’Neill (pictured), 28, from Liverpool, was left devastated after she found the handwritten note at the bottom of her eldest daughter Millie’s (right) bed
Ms O’Neill, who now wants to take Millie out of Lister Junior School in Liverpool, said her daughter has been left so afraid she has even tried to self-harm in a bid to be allowed to stay at home.
The schoolgirl wrote in her letter: ‘I am sad because I think it is not fair, because they just keep on bullying me and the way it makes me feel.
‘Not one kid in the world should feel the way I feel when I get bullied. It makes me sad, I feel different, weird, not important, angry, dumb and hurt.
‘There is a lot more but I don’t want to write it.’
On the other side it read: ‘Please help me stop getting bullied.’
The schoolgirl wrote in her letter: ‘I am sad because I think it is not fair, because they just keep on bullying me and the way it makes me feel. Not one kid in the world should feel the way I feel when I get bullied. It makes me sad, I feel different, weird, not important, angry, dumb and hurt’
Ms O’Neill told The Liverpool Echo: ‘I went in to make her bed and I found the note at the bottom of the bed. I couldn’t believe it. You could tell it’s been written in a rush as if she’s panicking, she usually has beautiful handwriting, it was as though she just couldn’t face school.
‘I sat her down and asked her what was wrong and she told me about the bullying – she just said ‘I want to die’.
‘You don’t expect to hear things like that from an eight-year-old girl.’
She added that she has noticed her daughter has recently stopped eating as much as she once did, does not want to wear certain clothes and now wants to alter her appearance.
Ms O’Beill shared a picture of Millie’s note online in the hope of raising awareness of bullying – and it has now been commented on and liked thousands of times.
Ms O’Neill shared a picture of Millie’s note online in the hope of raising awareness of bullying
Simon King, head of Lister Junior School, said: ‘We are shocked, saddened and obviously really concerned about the note.
‘We met with mum earlier today to discuss the issue and she informed us that she wishes for Millie to go to another school, which is very sad as only last Thursday she told a member of our staff how happy Millie was at the present time.
‘We take bullying extremely seriously and although there have been a couple of minor disagreements with her classmates since she joined us in September 2016, they have always been sorted out amicably.’