2023-05-18 04:00:00
At only 10 years old, little Annsofy Bastien was in such great distress that she chose to end her life.
“Nothing, nothing, nothing foreshadowed such a gesture,” breathes his mother, Annick Dinelle.
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hidden letters
The latter was unaware of her daughter’s suffering. It was only afterwards, while searching in her room, behind the tiles of the suspended ceiling, that she discovered dark letters and drawings, as well as blades.
“Tired of pretending to be happy” or “I don’t want to live anymore”, wrote the little girl in particular on sheets that she then hid.
“She was not hiding that for nothing, because we would have intervened,” laments Ms. Dinelle.
Her daughter’s grades revealed that she was bullied at school, to the point where she was afraid to even set foot there, she continues.
Her mother found class photos where her daughter had circled faces and written “bully” on them, for example.
Annick Dinelle is sorry that no police intervention, at least awareness and prevention, took place after her discoveries. She had handed everything over to the agents who were then conducting an investigation following the suicide.
«[Annsofy] was often in conflict with her classmates and on the day of her death, she had had some confrontations with other students at school”, also indicates the coroner, Geneviève Richer in her report.
Alex, pass Annsofy
Going through precocious puberty, Mrs. Dinelle’s daughter did not accept the changes she observed in her body.
A few weeks before her death, she had asked to be called Alex from now on. “But it was neither boy nor girl,” she said.
The child was also trying to hide her breasts, for example. And she wore long clothes, hiding her self-harm marks.
At school, Annsofy was gifted, but she lacked interest.
In her report, the coroner notes that the girl’s action was “impulsive” and impossible to predict. “The parents were both present and motivated to help their daughter,” says Dr. Richer.
The young girl was also the subject of a psychosocial follow-up which did not detect anything. She admitted to suffering from panic attacks, but denied any suicidal ideation.
Annick Dinelle remembers that the weekend preceding the gesture had gone wonderfully. “Everything was fine,” she recalls.
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