Angel Green hanged herself and left a note to her mother that said, ‘It’s bullying that killed me. Please get justice.
Angel Green in happier times. The 14-year-old hanged herself outside and left and heartbreaking suicide note pointing her finger at bullying as her cause of death.
By the bus stop, they found their Angel hanging from a tree.
On her bed at home, for her stricken mother to find, the 14-year-old Indiana girl left a note that read,
in part, “Why did I deserve this pain?”
The heartbreaking suicide last month of West Lafayette’s Angel Green has now led to anti-bullying legislation at the state’s capital.
Green was an 8th-grader, who hanged herself March 5. The note she left behind — penned in a careful hand and addressed to her classmates — pointed clearly to the growing menace of bullying.
On her bed at home, for her stricken mother to find, the 14-year-old Indiana girl left a note that read,
in part, “Why did I deserve this pain?”
The heartbreaking suicide last month of West Lafayette’s Angel Green has now led to anti-bullying legislation at the state’s capital.
Green was an 8th-grader, who hanged herself March 5. The note she left behind — penned in a careful hand and addressed to her classmates — pointed clearly to the growing menace of bullying.
Indiana mother Danielle Green took her daughter’s plea “to get justice” straight to the legislature.
“Have you ever thought about what you said to me? huh... maybe not! because you killed me everyday,” she wrote, leaving the note beside her bed for her mother.
“P.S.,” the note ends, “it’s bullying that killed me. Please get justice.”
The girl’s devastated mother, Danielle Green, took her daughter’s plea straight to the state legislature.
Angel Green’s suicide note points the finger at bullying to which she was subjected.
She’s pushing for passage of House Bill 1423, targeted at making school’s accountable for bullying. It would require them to note and report such incidents in an annual report, WRTV-TV reported.
The bill would further require training for all school staff and employees on bullying prevention. Any incident of bullying would be reported to the students and their parents.
The bill has passed the state’s House and will go before the Senate for a vote.
Angel Green said her suicide was from bullying.
"I want the schools to have more training and I want the kids and everybody to have support and resources for how to handle it," Green said as she visited the statehouse in support of the bill.Such legislation, Green believes, could prevent further suicides. Her daughter had long been bullied by her classmates.
"They called her whore, slut and countless names, and told her she was worthless," Green said. "She did this before the bus was going to be there so her bullies would see her."
Green was joined Wednesday by other mothers, including Lana Swoape, who lost her daughter Tori, 15, to suicide in May.
In Angel Green’s case, still just a month after her death, her final note speaks volumes to the bullying she faced as a middle-school student.
“You told me so much that I started believing it,” she wrote on a piece of notebook paper. “And I was stupid for doing that. Every morning, day, night I look in the mirror and cry, and replay the harmful words in my head.”