Missing Teen Leaves Harrowing Suicide Note
Innocent Selatlhwa | Monday February 12, 2018 15:17
According to an aunt, Kelebogile Pajor, her 19-year-old niece Daphney Omphile went missing on Tuesday morning and left a suicide note before vanishing.
“When the father came back from dropping off a child at school, he found the suicide note on the table with Daphney nowhere to be seen. He then kept the note until the mother arrived from work in the evening and showed her the note. They then informed us as relatives,” she said.
Pajor said the parents were initially reluctant to report the matter to the police, stating that it was not the first time the child went missing. “We then explained to them that it was a different case as this time she had left a note and her phone was off. The matter was then reported on Thursday and we are yet to convince them to report to the Kgosi,” she said.
Pajor said in previous incidents, the teenager would leave for her boyfriend’s house after an argument with her mother, and would call her grandmother telling her what had happened.
She said the mother told them she had scolded her over cleaning of the house before she left for work. She said they were concerned that they had not heard the father’s side of the story as he would not take their calls and avoided staying home when knowing relatives were coming over.
Pajor said in their attempts to look for Daphney, her friend told them that she gave her a call on Tuesday saying she was hurting because her boyfriend had left her and she could not live anymore. Pajor said the boyfriend told them they had broken up and Daphney was not ready to accept it.
Mogoditshane Police station commander, Superintendent Agreement Mapeu said the search is on for the missing teenager.
“We contacted friends and family and also looked in the bushes since she left a suicide note. We will also be engaging a chopper to intensify the search in the coming week,” he said.
The suicide note reads: “By the time you see this, I’d be long gone. I am not happy at all, so much that I cannot continue living like this. I do not know if it’s me or life is against me, but all I know is I have suffered and I cannot take it anymore. Kids my age prosper in life; their parents praise them, ba itumela ka bone. Whereas I am something else. I don’t even know what I’m living for. I’m a burden to everybody, just everybody. I have reached a point in life where I feel nothing is okay. Where nothing is going right. Nobody should judge me PLEASE because nobody hasn’t been through what I have been through. Nobody has ever felt the way I do before. I have been strong, so strong and right now I feel I just can’t take it anymore. I wish I could be strong, but I cannot, it’s hard. Being here just makes things worse. All I do is ask myself questions that I don’t have answers to. I was breaking apart and nobody saw me.
I just wanted people to see the tough me while deep inside I was shuttered. Please don’t blame anybody for my own personal actions. Im SORRY, DEEPLY SORRY. This are my goodbyes, please tell my grandmother gore I love her so much. Sometimes I wish God could have given me a heart as strong as hers.
Reneilwe, phakela ha ke go raa ke re goodbye nnaka ne ke go laela. Lots of love mama, papa, Karabo and my family and friends. Till we meet again, until then goodbye” (sic).
UPDATE
On Monday morning after the print publication of this article, the aunt to Omphile told our reporter that the family managed to speak to their missing girl. She reportedly refused to share her exact location but she promised the aunt that she would return home soon without indicating when.