{"id":272,"date":"2025-08-18T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2025-08-19T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T00:22:09","slug":"before-he-hanged-himself-a-13-year-old-wrote-this-letter-his-parents-only-want-that-his-story-be-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Before He Hanged Himself, A 13-Year-Old Wrote This Letter. His Parents Only Want That His Story Be Told"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daniel Joseph Fitzpatrick was only a couple of weeks short of his fourteenth birthday when he took his own life.His 17-year-old sister, Kristen, discovered him on August 11, hanged with his own belt. His folks, Maureen and Daniel Sr. , were overpowered with pain but they would not like to let that prevent them from sharing his important and heartbreaking story. Daniel had been tenaciously harassed until he saw no other way out.The teenager composed a multi-paged suicide take note of that his folks chose to distribute. He depicts how his 6th grade classmates and previous friends at his Catholic school abruptly betrayed him and how he had been subjected to every day harassing assaults:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 Anthony took it all out on me. He bullied me along with John, Marco, Jose, and Jack they did it constantly until I went into a fight with Anthony everyone stopped except John he was angry\u2026 I ended up fighting John and got a fractured pinkie,\u201d Daniel, also known as Danny, wrote that they teased him because of his weight, his grades, because he wasn\u2019t as \u201ctough\u201d as the other boys. \u201cI gave up. The teachers either didn\u2019t do
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\u201cMy son\u2019s story is now out there for the world to see and for the world to know the pain that he went through,\u201d said Daniel\u2019s father in a voice hoarse with emotion in an 18-minute video he posted on Facebook. \u201cNo child should have to go through what my son went through.\u201d In the poignant recording, the mechanic also explained the he and his wife didn\u2019t feel the school treated their concerns seriously when they took Danny\u2019s troubles to the principal. \u201cAll I got was and all HE got was, \u2018He\u2019ll be fine. Is he in counselling?<\/div>\n

You have to try harder, Danny. These things will pass.\u201d<\/span>Daniel Sr. also had strong words for the parents of the boys Danny named in his suicide note: \u201cYou get to hold your children every night and every day for the rest of your lives and their natural lives. I don\u2019t get that anymore. Your little monsters took that from me. And my wife. And his sisters. Danny was a kind, gentle little soul. He didn\u2019t have a mean bone in his body\u2026 I just want to hear him say, \u2018good morning, dad\u2019 one more time and that way I could tell him \u2018good morning\u2019 and \u2018I love you,\u2019 which I did every every day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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In their deepest grief, Daniel Fitzgerald\u2019s family<\/a> hopes that with their decision to publish his story, more attention will be directed to the problem of bullying and its fatal consequences. Nothing can bring the 13-year-old back to life.<\/p>\n

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