Chloe REBECCA Sturgess

Thankyou to everyone who has lit candles, sent tributes and pictures to chloe on her 16th birthday.
This has made a difficult day, a bit easier to bare. Sorry about the lack of candles but have had so
much trouble with my computer. Will be moving shortly, then hopefully i will be back to lighting all
your candles again.



Hi everyone, sorry about the lack of candles at the mo but i am having lots of trouble with some
pervert on facebook. This twisted person has been saying some really evil things about chloe. I will
be back lighting candles within the next couple of days. Thankyou to all of you who have still been
lighting her candles.

I would just like to thank everyone for all chloe's candles, pics, gifts and tributes for her 2nd
angelversary. It means so much to me that so many people care about her.

Sorry about the lack of candles again, but myself and chloe's dad have just broken up after being
together for 17 years.
Sorry my candles have been a bit hit and miss lately. I have just left my job, so i'm hoping to get
back to lighting the candles more frequently now.

chloe has been put on facebook, if anyone would like to read about her it is on groups under
disabled children have no rights.

If u light a candle for chloe, would you also be so kind to light one for chloe's brother Miles
Rawlins and their cousin Marcus Holmes. Thankyou.

I would just like to thank everyone who has lit candles for chloe. It means so much to me, to know
that so many people care.

Chloe Rebecca Sturgess died on the 10th of April 2007, at the age of 13. She has 1 brother, Wesley
who is 9. Chloe was born with Rett Syndrome, she also had chronic lung disease due to numerous chest
infections, and died from an asthma attack.
Although Chloe was 13, she was only 7 months old mentally. In her short life, she had to endure more
pain, than most people suffer in a lifetime. She loved looking at herself in the mirror and was
always so happy, even when she was really ill, she would still manage to smile. Chloe was my
beautiful daughter and such a special little girl. Life will never be the same ever again. I will
never forget her great big brown sparkily eyes or her beautiful smile. She will remain in the hearts
of everyone who ever knew her and she will never be forgotten.
I still find it hard to believe that you are no longer here. I am still fighting to get answers
about how your leg was broken. It is like banging your head against a brick wall. We all still
believe that if you hadn't suffered a broken leg, you would still be here with us.
Your leg was broken sixteen months ago, and even now we still don't know the full story. The thing
that gets me the most is that your teacher wont even lose her job.
More than anything, the only person who knew what really happened that day was you. But you couldn't
talk. The school tried to pin your broken leg on another child. The other child was suppose to of
picked up your left leg and crossed it over your right leg. This was meant to have happened in a
matter of seconds. The thing is we all knew how you reacted if your legs were touched. You would
instantly panic. It was hard for me to move your legs, so it would be virtually impossible for
another child to move them.
You had to spend six weeks in hospital and have two rods and two pins inserted in your leg. Your
femur had been snapped in such a way, that your knee was classed as floating. Because of the pain
that you suffered, you ended up suffering from three chest infections in a space of six weeks and
had to go into intensive care three times. When you came down with the third chest infection, i was
told that you wouldn't recover and if you did, you wouldn't survive another one. I was told that you
had six months at the most to live. You managed to hang on for another ten months.
Since your leg was broken, we have been trying to get someone to admit liability, but nobody has. We
have been told that it was just an unforeseeable accident. How they can say this, i will never know.
In your statement it said that you needed one to one the whole time you were at school. On this day
your one to one and three class assistants all went for a tea break at the same time. This left just
the teacher with six special needs kids on her own. This is when your leg was broken. The teacher
couldn't even say what happened, as she said that she didn't see it. The accident happend at
11.15am, but the school didn't even ring until 3.15pm to let us know that you had been hurt.
Since you left us, i have been to the evening argus (local news paper) i have been on the local
news and written a letter to Gordon Brown. None of it has made any difference. Our court case was
suppose to be over by the end of summer, but now it wont be until feb or march next year. I wont
stop fighting for answers until that teacher has lost her job. We have never wanted anything, but
for that teacher to lose her job so no other child has to go through what you went through.