Warning: This post addresses issues of suicide and sexual assault. It may be triggering for some readers.
Cassidy Trevan was only 13 years old when two girls who had bullied her at her local public high school in Melbourne’s south-east organised for her to be gang raped.
The girls led her to a nearby house where two older boys, that Cass didn’t know, took turns raping her.
Twenty-two months later, Cassidy took her own life.
Now, her mother is sharing her story - including the heartbreaking letter Cassidy drafted to warn her 1500 fellow students about the dangers of bullying.
The unfinished letter was found on her laptop by her mother, Linda Trevan, who shared it with Nine.com.au.
"I was a student at [school name withheld] and I was raped by some of the students who still attend that school," Cassidy wrote.
"My aim is to warn other people...about what happened because I’m worried if they could do it to me they could do it to other kids like me, or at least try to.
"I’m not doing this for revenge to those students that raped me, set up the rape, bullied me about the rape, teased me about the rape or anything like that. I’m also not doing this for attention seeking like I mentioned earlier, I want to make that clear."
Cassidy also wrote that she was writing the letter for herself, in hopes that she would "finally be left alone".
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I just read some of the comments and if the school has not even acknowledged her death makes me wonder if they are supporting the little pricks that did the bullying. I really feel for the family of this beautiful young lady. No one should ever have to go through what she did. To the bullies who pushed and pushed how does it feel to be rapists and murderers?? As far as I am concerned you killed this young lady. You should be charged and sent to prison just like any other murderer would be. You make me sick. I would never wish harm upon you but remember one thing....Karma is a bitch and has a way of coming back at you 10 fold. You caused this and karma will get you. R.I.P to a beautiful angel. May your wings spread and you fly without pain
I think name and shame as well. The girls, the rapists, hell even the ppl who bullied her after the fact. They all need to be held accountable