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Reports Daniel Fitzpatrick, 13-year-old Staten Island boy who hung himself after being bullied in school, lived in fear of his parents ’alcohol-fuelled anger’ at home

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h3><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;240404&semi;"><strong>Disturbing reports emerge of tragic teen&&num;8217&semi;s troubled home life<&sol;strong><&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;240404&semi;"> <strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;Allegations of 13-year-old Staten Island boy who killed himself after being bullied&comma; hiding out in attic to avoid his mom’s drunken outbursts<&sol;strong><&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;240404&semi;"> <strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;Family&&num;8217&semi;s attorney calls claims of home abuse bogus&comma; &&num;8216&semi;ACP found &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;no credible evidence” of abuse or maltreatment&comma; the report &lbrack;is&rsqb; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;unfounded”&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-57410" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;08&sol;daniel-fitzpatricks-funeral&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Daniel Fitzpatrick's funeral&period;jpg" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"798" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Mourners at Daniel&&num;8217&semi;s graveside<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Daniel Fitzpatrick&comma; a 13-year-old 7th grader at Holy Angels Catholic Academy in Brooklyn&comma; NY&comma; wrapped a belt around his neck and hung himself inside the attic of his family’s Staten Island home&period; This was on August 11&comma;  a few  day&&num;8217&semi;s shy of his 14th birthday&comma; ostensibly because he he&&num;8217&semi;d had enough of school yard bullying with the adults in his life refusing to intervene and alleviate the daily misery piled on the poor kid&period; Daniel had been at the receiving end of tortous bullying about his weight and grades&period; It is alleged that the staff at Holy Angels Catholic Academy did nothing about it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;amazon&period;com&sol;gp&sol;product&sol;B0038MVFYC&sol;ref&equals;as&lowbar;li&lowbar;tl&quest;ie&equals;UTF8&amp&semi;camp&equals;1789&amp&semi;creative&equals;9325&amp&semi;creativeASIN&equals;B0038MVFYC&amp&semi;linkCode&equals;as2&amp&semi;tag&equals;konniemoments-20&amp&semi;linkId&equals;0532c01ed00172203bed166c63a4b3bc"><img class&equals;" alignleft" src&equals;"&sol;&sol;ws-na&period;amazon-adsystem&period;com&sol;widgets&sol;q&quest;&lowbar;encoding&equals;UTF8&amp&semi;MarketPlace&equals;US&amp&semi;ASIN&equals;B0038MVFYC&amp&semi;ServiceVersion&equals;20070822&amp&semi;ID&equals;AsinImage&amp&semi;WS&equals;1&amp&semi;Format&equals;&lowbar;SL250&lowbar;&amp&semi;tag&equals;konniemoments-20" width&equals;"323" height&equals;"295" border&equals;"0" &sol;><&sol;a><img style&equals;"border&colon;none &excl;important&semi;margin&colon;0&excl;important&semi;" src&equals;"&sol;&sol;ir-na&period;amazon-adsystem&period;com&sol;e&sol;ir&quest;t&equals;konniemoments-20&amp&semi;l&equals;am2&amp&semi;o&equals;1&amp&semi;a&equals;B0038MVFYC" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1" height&equals;"1" border&equals;"0" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;amazon&period;com&sol;gp&sol;product&sol;B0038MVFYC&sol;ref&equals;as&lowbar;li&lowbar;tl&quest;ie&equals;UTF8&amp&semi;camp&equals;1789&amp&semi;creative&equals;9325&amp&semi;creativeASIN&equals;B0038MVFYC&amp&semi;linkCode&equals;as2&amp&semi;tag&equals;konniemoments-20&amp&semi;linkId&equals;491b34fa965b996c239a1fe6bdb0e3c7">Pokemon HeartGold Version<&sol;a><img style&equals;"border&colon;none &excl;important&semi;margin&colon;0&excl;important&semi;" src&equals;"&sol;&sol;ir-na&period;amazon-adsystem&period;com&sol;e&sol;ir&quest;t&equals;konniemoments-20&amp&semi;l&equals;am2&amp&semi;o&equals;1&amp&semi;a&equals;B0038MVFYC" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1" height&equals;"1" border&equals;"0" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a gut-wrenching suicide note he wrote  a few weeks prior&comma; he says &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I gave up&comma;”  &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The teachers &period; &period; &period; they didn’t do anything&period;”Daniel had pointed to a group of five boys who were his chief tormentors&period;Now his parents and the school are in a tizzy&comma; each side strenously striving to shift the blame for this regrettable tragedy on to the other&period;The day before the Fitzpatricks buried their son&comma; disturbing claims emerged about the 13-year-old’s home life&period; A disturbing report from an Administration of Children’s Service emerged&comma; regarding the mental well being of Daniel in the Fitzpatrick home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-57413" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;08&sol;daniel-fitzpatrick2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Daniel Fitzpatrick2&period;jpg" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"1170" &sol;> <strong>ACP report claims Daniel Fitzpatrick lived in fear of his parents ’alcohol-fuelled anger&&num;8217&semi; at home&comma; and was bullied mercilessly in school<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>The report claims Daniel Fitzpatrick lived in fear of his parents’ alcohol-fuelled anger&comma; hiding in the attic to avoid his mom’s boozy outbursts&comma; according to an Administration of Children’s Services report&period;  Reacting to the report&comma; the family countered through their lawyer&comma; Scott Rynecki who  called the  ACS accusations bogus&period; Reynecki says it an attempt to discredit family by the boy&&num;8217&semi;s Catholic school an attempt to wriggle out of a situation they see as problematic&period;<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;57913g0gux4xhod9l4ndkm4s8a&period;hop&period;clickbank&period;net&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;top">Click Here&excl;<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;As proof Scott Rynecki furnished a letter from the New York State Office of Children and Family Services addressed to the dead boy’s mother&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The belief is that the Catholic school themselves put in some sort of claim and spoke to the child and somehow twisted his claims&period; ACS issued a letter&comma; which fully and completely exonerated the family”&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Daniel’s sister Kristen found him dead in the attic on Aug&period; 11&comma; a belt wrapped around his neck&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-57415" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;08&sol;maureen-and-daniel-fitzpatrick&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Maureen and Daniel Fitzpatrick&period;jpg" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"1010" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Maureen and Daniel Fitzpatrick mourn their son at his funeral Mass&period; They are accused of terrorizing him during booze-fuelled bouts of rage<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>On closer examination&comma; the ACS report from  the fall of 2015&comma; points to another source of stress and trauma for the boy&comma;  his parents&comma; Maureen and Daniel Fitzpatrick&comma; stating&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Danny said mom being drunk affects him in everything and makes him angry&comma;” ACS alleged&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He said dad also drinks&comma; but controls himself more than mom&period; Student can’t remember a time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-57384" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;08&sol;daniel-fitzpatrick1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Daniel Fitzpatrick1" width&equals;"1484" height&equals;"988" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Daniel&&num;8217&semi;s sister found him dead in the attic on Aug&period; 11&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Danny denies physical abuse by mom and dad&comma; but says Kristen&comma; his older sister&comma; hides him in the attic or his room when mom is drunk&period; He says his dad and Kristen protect him&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Danny denies suicidal thoughts&comma; but feels angry&comma; sad&comma; has thoughts of wanting to run away&period; Mother is blaming his teachers for his failures and has written several accusatory letters to school&period; Student is afraid of both parents anger&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Inspite of the report&comma; family  lawyer&comma; Scott Rynecki insists Child protective services found &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;no credible evidence” of abuse or maltreatment and deemed the report &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;unfounded&comma;” according to the letter&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The belief is that the Catholic school themselves put in some sort of claim and spoke to the child and somehow twisted his claims&period; ACS issued a letter&comma; which fully and completely exonerated the family&comma;” Rynecki said and the New York police did confirm there were no reports of domestic incidents at the family’s home&comma; dating back to at least&comma; January 2015&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Daniel attended Holy Angels Catholic Academy in Bay Ridge&comma; where he was regularly bullied by a group of five boys&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-57385" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;08&sol;daniel-fitzpatrick1-suicide-note&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Daniel Fitzpatrick1 suicide note" width&equals;"1484" height&equals;"1886" &sol;><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Daniel&&num;8217&semi;s suicide note written weeks before his tragic death<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Although Daniel&comma; before his untimely death was set to start classes at a different school&comma;  Xaverian High School in Brooklyn&comma; in the fall&comma; Holy Angels had recommended that Daniel repeat the seventh grade&comma;  but at a different school&period; The principal told Daniel’s father she didn’t think the school would be a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;good environment” for the boy to fall a grade behind&comma; saying it might &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;damage his psyche&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-57386" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;08&sol;holy-angels-catholic-academy&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Holy Angels Catholic Academy" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"899" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Daniel Fitzpatrick attended Holy Angels Catholic Academy in Bay Ridge&comma; where it is he alleged&comma; he was regularly bullied by a group of five boys and the teachers failed to intervene&comma; although he did report the situation to school authorities<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Daniel wrote about the five boys who had singled him out for constant teasing&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They did it constantly&period; I ended up fighting &lbrack;o and got a fractured pinkie”&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;His teenage tormentors called him lazy and threw balls at him in gym class&comma; according to his parents&period; His mother Maureen Fitzpatrick said  &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;My son shouldn’t have to die to be heard”&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There’s something wrong with the adults in authority positions when kids can’t go to them for help&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;amazon&period;com&sol;gp&sol;product&sol;B00ECV3ZXM&sol;ref&equals;as&lowbar;li&lowbar;tl&quest;ie&equals;UTF8&amp&semi;camp&equals;1789&amp&semi;creative&equals;9325&amp&semi;creativeASIN&equals;B00ECV3ZXM&amp&semi;linkCode&equals;as2&amp&semi;tag&equals;konniemoments-20&amp&semi;linkId&equals;34e643bc363c732761ad576dd5fd2ce1"><img class&equals;" alignleft" src&equals;"&sol;&sol;ws-na&period;amazon-adsystem&period;com&sol;widgets&sol;q&quest;&lowbar;encoding&equals;UTF8&amp&semi;MarketPlace&equals;US&amp&semi;ASIN&equals;B00ECV3ZXM&amp&semi;ServiceVersion&equals;20070822&amp&semi;ID&equals;AsinImage&amp&semi;WS&equals;1&amp&semi;Format&equals;&lowbar;SL250&lowbar;&amp&semi;tag&equals;konniemoments-20" border&equals;"0" &sol;><&sol;a><img style&equals;"border&colon;none &excl;important&semi;margin&colon;0&excl;important&semi;" src&equals;"&sol;&sol;ir-na&period;amazon-adsystem&period;com&sol;e&sol;ir&quest;t&equals;konniemoments-20&amp&semi;l&equals;am2&amp&semi;o&equals;1&amp&semi;a&equals;B00ECV3ZXM" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1" height&equals;"1" border&equals;"0" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;amazon&period;com&sol;gp&sol;product&sol;B00ECV3ZXM&sol;ref&equals;as&lowbar;li&lowbar;tl&quest;ie&equals;UTF8&amp&semi;camp&equals;1789&amp&semi;creative&equals;9325&amp&semi;creativeASIN&equals;B00ECV3ZXM&amp&semi;linkCode&equals;as2&amp&semi;tag&equals;konniemoments-20&amp&semi;linkId&equals;05d51a7b72a6f5aa95ae96bd6a80d18a">T-fal C067SC Metallics Nonstick Thermo-Spot Heat Indicator Cookware Set&comma; 12-Piece&comma; Bronze<&sol;a><img style&equals;"border&colon;none &excl;important&semi;margin&colon;0&excl;important&semi;" src&equals;"&sol;&sol;ir-na&period;amazon-adsystem&period;com&sol;e&sol;ir&quest;t&equals;konniemoments-20&amp&semi;l&equals;am2&amp&semi;o&equals;1&amp&semi;a&equals;B00ECV3ZXM" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1" height&equals;"1" border&equals;"0" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;Although Daniel met with a guidance counselor&comma; his parents refused to give consent for ongoing appointments&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Mommy loves you with all my heart and soul&period; I’ll see you later&comma; and I thank God for giving me you&comma;” Maureen said in her eulogy to her son&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The father&comma; Daniel Fitzpatrick wrote &colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I hope the memory of what you did to my son is burned in your brain for the rest of your life and you suffer as much as he suffered&period;”  However&comma; a couple of days later in a message obviously addressed to other young people who find themselves in similar circumstances&comma; he adds  &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The choice that my boy made is an answer&comma; but it’s not the right answer”&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Don’t let anybody demean you because of the way you look&comma; the way you feel — you matter&period; You do matter&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And I’ll tell you honestly&comma; you matter to me and you matter to my son&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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