Good Christians often make for bad people. Story out of Staten Island, New York:
Before he took his own life, Daniel Fitzpatrick, taunted and bullied, wrote a final, heartbreaking letter lamenting that nearly no one tried to help him.
The 13-year-old Staten Island boy, mercilessly badgered over his weight, grades and his innocent heart, pleaded to his school for help.
But teacher after teacher at Holy Angels Catholic Academy — the principal, too — turned a deaf ear, refusing to intervene, he said in the letter that was never sent.
Finally, overwhelmed by the torment, Daniel hanged himself, his family said.
Described by his family as a sensitive softie who covered his eyes and ears during the R-rated movie “Deadpool,” Daniel was discovered hanging in the attic inside his family’s Davis Ave. home in West Brighton about 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
“My son shouldn’t have to die to be heard,” Daniel’s distraught mom Maureen Fitzpatrick told The News in an exclusive interview Friday. “There’s something wrong with the adults in authority positions when kids can’t go to them for help.”
His 17-year-old sister Kristen found him with the belt around his neck and called for help, but it was too late. Cont.
Story from - New York Daily News
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