Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service<\/a> (Camhs).<\/p>\nCorrespondence, seen by the Irish Examiner, includes a letter by a GP when Jannah was nine years old, saying the case was urgent.<\/p>\n
However, a letter from Camhs said she did not meet the criteria for assessment.<\/p>\n
Lawyers Lavelle Partners, acting for Jannah\u2019s mother Katrina Browne, have lodged a personal injuries case against St John of God\u2019s community services as well as the HSE\u2019s national council for special education.<\/p>\n
Ms Browne said: \u201cJannah was everything to me. She woke me every morning for school, and by God was she beautiful to me, every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we needed help for her mental health. My child needed help, a help which was denied by every aspect of the system,\u201d Ms Browne said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt angers me so much, it breaks me. For those left behind, suicide comes with a path of terror, shame and guilt, but to know that it was preventable is like a dagger in my chest that twists all day long.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Browne said she will always remember her daughter\u2019s beauty, but the final image of finding her daughter dead in her bedroom will haunt her forever.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy whole family is traumatised for life over the tragic death of our queen, our youngest child.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hoped and prayed something would change after Jannah\u2019s death, but unfortunately the assessment (waiting list) is even longer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, sadly, hundreds if not thousands still wait for mental health support and diagnosis. This is soul destroying that there are no lessons learned.<\/p>\n
\u201cJannah deserved to be seen and she wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince her death nothing has changed. I only hope that some awareness is brought that urgent services are required and that this is life and death for many children across Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jannah was a sixth-class pupil at St Thomas SNS in Jobstown and a camogie player with St Marks GAA.<\/p>\n
Following her death on April 3, Katrina shared an emotional message on Facebook saying she couldn\u2019t understand how much her child was \u201csuffering inside\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll she did was smile and joke and dance and sing and play sports with me and try to make us happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
She then encouraged parents not to be afraid to speak openly about mental health to their children and always ask them the \u201chard questions.\u201d <\/p>\n
In a statement, the HSE said: \u201cWe were saddened to hear of this young person\u2019s death by suicide, and we would like to offer our condolences to this family at this difficult time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe HSE cannot comment on individual cases or care. <\/p>\n
\u201cEven, when a client or family makes personal information public, this does not relieve the HSE or its duty to preserve and uphold client or patient confidentiality at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The heartbroken mother of a 12-year-old child who died by suicide has launched a High Court case against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[144264,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-336045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-camhs","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}