RIP for Paolo ❤️

 

Indifference is more culpable than violence itself.

The mother of Paolo Mendico, the 14-year-old who committed suicide in Latina, recounts the pain and loneliness experienced by her son and his family.

"My son was different from everyone else because he was a pure, pure boy; he didn't swear," his mother says.

"Some teachers even called my son a good-natured boy because they heard him intervene in class when a classmate said inappropriate words. He was immediately alarmed. Perhaps his very spontaneous way of being annoyed his peers, who weren't like that at all: they were disrespectful."

She then recounts the silence at the funeral: "There was no one there. There was only one boy with whom he got along very well, because he was polite just like him. When my son was absent due to illness, he was the only one who gave him his homework. But still, there was no one at the funeral, not even the parents, no one."

… for a world without bullies and bullying…