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The parents of a teenage girl have spoken of their anguish after she hanged herself over fears of telling them she was gay. In the months before her death, Elisabeth Lowe, 14, known as Lizzie, had confided to pals that she thought she might be a lesbian, an inquest heard, Uk Mirror Reports.
Her friends said she was scared of telling her parents and had struggled to reconcile her feelings with her strong Christian faith.
However, her father said her fears were “misplaced” and that she would have received a “wealth of love and acceptance.”
The alarm was raised after Lizzie sent a text to a friend at around 8:30pm on Wednesday, September 10, which concluded by saying “....stay strong. I am sorry”
The pal told her mum who in turn alerted Lizzie’s parents and the police, sparking a desperate search for her, the Manchester Evening News reports.
She was eventually found hanged in the Millgate Fields area of Fletcher Moss Park in Didsbury, Manchester, at around 11:15pm.
Despite extended resuscitation attempts by paramedics, Lizzie, of nearby Dalston Drive, could not be saved and she was pronounced dead shortly after midnight.
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The parents of a teenage girl have spoken of their anguish after she hanged herself over fears of telling them she was gay. In the months before her death, Elisabeth Lowe, 14, known as Lizzie, had confided to pals that she thought she might be a lesbian, an inquest heard, Uk Mirror Reports.
Her friends said she was scared of telling her parents and had struggled to reconcile her feelings with her strong Christian faith.
However, her father said her fears were “misplaced” and that she would have received a “wealth of love and acceptance.”
The alarm was raised after Lizzie sent a text to a friend at around 8:30pm on Wednesday, September 10, which concluded by saying “....stay strong. I am sorry”
The pal told her mum who in turn alerted Lizzie’s parents and the police, sparking a desperate search for her, the Manchester Evening News reports.
She was eventually found hanged in the Millgate Fields area of Fletcher Moss Park in Didsbury, Manchester, at around 11:15pm.
Despite extended resuscitation attempts by paramedics, Lizzie, of nearby Dalston Drive, could not be saved and she was pronounced dead shortly after midnight.
A post mortem examination concluded she
died from the effects of hanging and that she had no drugs or alcohol in
her body at the time of her death.
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