The same teenagers who mercilessly taunted the 15-year-old girl until she took her own life made fun of her suicide days after her death, the victim’s family said in a powerful essay posted online.
Matilda “Tilly” Rosewarne was found dead by her father outside her old cabin at the family home in Bathurst, western New South Wales, on the morning of 16 February.
In an emotional essay, Tilly’s Uncle Sam Mason detailed how some of her classmates made nasty jokes about the teen’s death. At the same time, he shared the grim reality of Tilly’s death and how her little sister saw her body in the backyard.
In an article posted on LinkedIn Wednesday night, Mr. Mason said that Tilly had been harassed by school bullies for seven years and was the victim of “fake porn” distributed on Snapchat.
After she killed herself, Mr. Mason said that those who tortured Tilly apparently found her death amusing.
“About a day later, the jokes were posted online on Snapchat and other social networks.
“The same kids who literally hounded her to death found it funny — just a few days before, Matilda had been told that she hadn’t tried hard enough before (to kill herself),” he wrote.
“I don’t care LOL,” one of them wrote,” he recalls.
The teenagers who abused Matilda Rosewarne (pictured) so ruthlessly that she committed suicide ridiculed her suicide in the days following the tragic death of a 15-year-old girl.
Mr Mason said Tilly woke up at 3 a.m. on the day of her death “deciding to look pretty” before getting dressed and putting on makeup “for the last time.”
She then climbed out of her bedroom window into the backyard before heading down to the family’s playhouse.
“Finding her way in the dark was easy, as she had been playing there with her sisters and cousins all her short life,” her uncle wrote.
Mr Mason reported that Tilly removed the pin from her cell phone, cleared all notifications and left a short note for her family saying she “loves them”.
“She was exhausted, tired, broken – she just couldn’t fight anymore,” he said.
“Our shattered little Tilly did her research properly and the loop did exactly what it was supposed to do and she seems to have died instantly.”
Mr Mason said the children knew they were “untouchable” and “enjoyed” torturing Tilly, with one girl even “threatening to kill her.”
Her father Murray found her a few hours later when he went to wake his daughters for school.
“In the next few minutes – somehow – her 13-year-old sister came out into the backyard and saw her,” her uncle said.
“This traumatic vision will haunt her for the rest of her life and is something no one should see at any age.
“When her little sister found her, she fell to her knees and begged her older sister’s body, “You promised me. You promised me that you would keep fighting.”
“And she did fight—for a hell of a long time.
Last month, Tilly said goodbye to family and friends, with her Uncle Sam saying the family pain “will never stop.”
Mr Mason said that while Tilly’s pain is finally over, the family “has only just begun and will never end.”
‘Matilda is our brave broken little girl. After all, you looked really cute, baby.
Mr Mason urged the government to overhaul the education system to ensure children don’t use social media to bully classmates and prevent future tragedies.
He said the girls at Tilly’s school easily exchanged links showing “fake nudes” from a European porn site via Snapchat.
The fake porn left the 15-year-old girl “desperately upset and trying so hard to clear her name,” he said.
Mr Mason said the children knew they were “untouchable” and “enjoyed” torturing her, and one girl even “threatened to kill her.”
“Frightened and trembling, she turned to the school for support and did not find it. Despite dozens of witnesses, nothing was done.
“The alleged perpetrator came from a ‘good family’ and, of course, the parents vehemently denied that this ever happened,” he wrote.
“If a woman as strong as Charlotte Dawson broke under the weight of the load – how can we expect our most vulnerable to cope?”
Television presenter Charlotte Dawson committed suicide in 2014 after being harassed by online trolls.
In an article posted on LinkedIn Wednesday night, Tilly’s uncle Sam Mason (pictured) said she was the target of seven years of harassment by school bullies.
Mr. Mason, who has worked in the information technology industry for 25 years and now works in the field of artificial intelligence, said that the police are “poorly equipped” to deal with cyberbullying in schools and said that while the education system “has given up on Matilda”, Schools can’t be blamed either. answer.
“They only have our kids about 20% of each week, while bullying is a problem 24 hours, 7 days a week,” her uncle wrote.
“They will continue to hide behind a ‘zero tolerance’ policy and hope it goes away because the elephant in the room that nobody wants to admit is that they can’t really stop it.”
He urged parents to make sure they check on their kids regularly, know how to use the apps their kids use, and check how they use those apps “because no one else is going to.”
“Try something—anything—we beg you.” It is no longer acceptable to refuse responsibility, ”Mason said.
“Yes, it’s a lot of work, and yes, it sucks that we have to do this while tech companies ignore and capitalize on the collective suffering of our most valuable resource.”
You can read Mr. Mason’s full article on LinkedIn here.
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The parents of a teenage suicide victim are Pleading for people to think of three things before posting online as they talk about the horrific abuse their 15-year-old daughter endured that “cut into her soul and destroyed her.”
The parents of a 15-year-old girl who took her own life after years of bullying issued a dire warning to young people, asking them to consider whether something is “true, kind or necessary” before posting it online.
Matilda “Tilly” Rosewarne died on February 16 after enduring more than seven years of relentless abuse by children and teenagers in Bathurst, west of Sydney.
At the farewell at the Bathurst Harness Racing Club, the schoolgirl’s parents Murray and Emma Mason told friends and family that their daughter chose to take her own life as a result of the cataclysmic events that “cut into Tilly’s soul”.
“Every post you write, every image you share, every word you say matters,” they wrote in her funeral booklet.
Matilda “Tilly” Rosewarne (pictured) was 15 years old when she took her own life on February 16.
“We beg you, before you post, share or say – ask yourself, is this true? Is it kind? It’s necessary?’
“If the answer is no to any of these questions, don’t post, don’t share, don’t speak.”
The parents explained that the father of one of their daughter’s classmates died when she was eight years old, but her classmates responded by voting and decided that Tilly’s father should have died instead.
When she wasn’t invited to birthday parties with the rest of her classmates, her peers called and texted her all night, teasing her because she wasn’t there.
Her classmates also used Snapchat and a European porn site to distribute “fake nudes” that, her cousin later explained on Facebook, spurred a failed suicide attempt.
Ms Mason told the Daily Telegraph that they filed a complaint with the police but had difficulty identifying the person who owned the Snapchat account and the investigation was dropped.
By that time, Tilly was so unwell that she did not want to give any more interrogations to the police.
Tilly went to meet up with “friends” at malls, “only to have them mock her and insult her in public,” her parents said.
Her parents said that she loved to dance and was a debate star at school, but developed depression after being bullied.
Her parents explained that they don’t believe educational institutions deal with bullying properly and that some bullies are forgiven because “they come from a good family.”
“We are sharing these examples not to blame any one person or any school, but to implore all of our teachers and parents that something needs to change,” the family said.
“If anything can happen because of the loss of Tilly, we want our education system to move from being safe or having an ‘RU OK’ day to having real, tough conversations and stopping bullying.”
They remembered the schoolgirl as a girl who loved to dance and draw and was an excellent debater, but the bullying led her to develop depression, anxiety, and symptoms of borderline personality disorder, a condition that affects self-image and creates a pattern of unstable relationships.
Tilly Grace’s best friend told Daily Mail Australia that the schoolgirl texted her when she was in extreme distress.
Tilly’s parents Emma and Murray Mason wrote a tribute to their daughter and detailed some of the things she went through (pictured)
“Tilli texted me so many times and called me because she was afraid that other people would hurt her,” she said.
“She would have been so upset and in tears because she thought she was going to die from the beating.”
“I just hope she doesn’t get hurt anymore.”
In a Facebook post, a cousin who attended the funeral said that “no amount of police intervention can stop the hooligans.”
“No amount of family support or help from the psychologists and psychiatrists involved in her treatment could stop Tilly from making her own choice – the only way she knew would bring her peace.”
She encouraged parents to have “real, difficult conversations” with their children and schools to “help them understand the impact of words and actions.”
“My family and I will never see Tilly get older again,” the woman wrote.
“She will live in our hearts forever, but it wasn’t meant to be. If only people were kind.
The police will conduct an investigation into Tilly’s death on behalf of the coroner.
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