bbcnews Semina Halliwell was 12 years old when she swallowed her mother’s prescription medication.
She died three days after, in hospital.
In the months before Semina’s death, she was attacked by her peers, which was filmed in videos shared on social media.
A 12-year-old girl who died of a prescription drug overdose after making a rape allegation was “betrayed” by the authorities, her mother has claimed
Semina Halliwell died in June 2021 after taking an overdose of her mother’s prescription medication at their home in Southport.
In March, she had reported a rape by an older boy that she said had taken place in January.
Her mother Rachel said police had not taken the complaint seriously enough, leaving Semina, who had autism, feeling “like she wasn’t believed”.
But an inquest found on Thursday that the authorities, including police, her school, healthcare workers and the local council, could not have been expected to prevent her death.
Speaking after the hearing, Semina’s mother said that she felt “an enormous dissatisfaction” at the coroner’s verdict and that “failures by the agencies involved in Semina’s care have not been acknowledged.”
Ms Halliwell added: “What I wanted to hear was a finding of the failures that I see in all of the agencies’ interactions with Semina and recommendations and improvements being made so that further tragedies cannot be allowed to happen in the future.
“My pain continues as I believe that Semina was betrayed by those responsible to help protect her and I hope for some acknowledgement of this for me and my family and because personally I will never stop believing that this was the case.
“I believe it was as a consequence of these agencies’ failures that my precious daughter is no longer with me.”
Ms Halliwell said she was considering taking civil action because she wanted “accountability” for alleged mistakes made.
The inquest, which was held at Bootle Town Hall for six days last month, heard that in March 2021, Semina told her mother she had been sexually assaulted by an older boy in January that year.
The boy had been messaging her online since the previous summer, the hearing was told.
