Love you forever
Reagan Carter was a typical 12-year-old. She was popular, had friends, and always had a smile on her face. Melanie Hack was a proud mother, and Reagan meant the world to her.
In the fall of 2014, a group of girls in her middle school began cyber-bullying Reagan making snide comments online. As the months went by, the bullying became more aggressive, with intimidating looks and threatening gestures.
After learning about the harassment Reagan was facing, Melanie approached the school principal and implored him to do something about the situation. Melanie says they brushed off her concerns every single time. Melanie, and Reagan’s father, Jimmy Carter, decided that it would be best to transfer Reagan to a different school district in January 2015.
In mid-December, Melanie picked up Reagan from her last school ballgame, and they returned home.
Reagan took her things and went to her room. By 8:30 p.m., Reagan came to her mom, requesting that she take her to the hospital.
Concerned, Melanie asked what was wrong. Reagan confessed that she had taken an overdose of prescription cough suppressant pills that could cause a considerable decline in heart rate.
Moments later, Reagan collapsed and was pronounced brain dead on December 23, 2014.
“I am tired of everyone hating me,” were her last words to her mother.
Melanie recalls every second of that evening, constantly wondering if she could have done anything to save her daughter. “I still feel with every bit of my heart that she didn’t mean to die,” Melanie says, “because she thought her mama could save her. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t save her.”