Brief Summary Of Cassidy Trevan's Case

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Cassidy Trevan put together a warning letter to try to save other students at her school from facing the same traumatizing experience she had gone through. The 15-year-old wrote a brutally honest letter explaining her feelings about the continuous bullying she dealt with and the gang rape she endured when she was 13-years-old.

The girl had been bullied by classmates before and after she was raped by the group that was terrorizing her. The fear never stopped for Cassidy, even after her mother, Linda Trevan, moved them from their home and switched her to a different school.

Linda described how the bullying progressed, telling 9 News:
The bullying became more extreme and more difficult for Cassidy to handle. She was placed in a recovery program to help her deal with the stress it was causing her, which made …show more content…

That was when she found out the kind invitation was just a set-up to hurt her. Two boys were waiting at the house when the girls brought the 13-year-old there.

According to 9 News, Cassidy's mother described what happened to her daughter at the home, saying:

Cassidy did report the rape to police, but she never made a formal statement so police could not charge the people involved in her rape.
Two years after being raped and facing non-stop harassment, Cassidy committed suicide when she was 15-years-old.

Cassidy did leave behind a heart-stopping letter encouraging anyone who is faced with the same thing she was to "Fight! If you don't you'll regret it for the rest of your life like I do. You can do it."
Cassidy's mother is left facing life without her daughter with the hope that her daughter's warning letter may save someone else from feeling the pain her daughter had forced on her.
Cassidy's mother eventually opened up about watching her terrified daughter suffer for years before she took her own life, saying: assidy's life and letter will not be

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