The parents of a schoolgirl who was told to commit suicide by classmates in a series of Snapchat videos say she was repeatedly bullied for the last three years.
Michelle and Aaron Panozza moved from Melbourne to the Gold Coast with their daughter Amber, 15, three years ago, and they say as soon as she started school the bullying started.
Speaking to A Current Affair, Mrs Panozza said Amber was a 'fun-loving' and 'healthy' girl when they arrived but within two years she was in hospital.
Michelle and Aaron Panozza (pictured) moved to the Gold Coast with their daughter Amber, 15, three years ago, but they say as soon as she started school the bullying started
The parents of a schoolgirl, 15, told to commit suicide by a classmate in a harrowing Snapchat video have shared a photo of the bullied teenager in a hospital bed (pictured)
Mrs Panozza said her daughter spent three months in hospital with malnutrition due to 'anxiety and depression' as a result of the abuse she received at school.
The distraught mother said there's no doubt in her mind Amber's illness was a direct result of not eating due to bullying because doctors and psychologists told her so.
Mr and Mrs Panozza said they daughter had always been quiet and a little insecure, which made her the perfect target for schoolyard bullying and harassment.
Amber's parents changed their daughter's school three times hoping to evade the vicious attacks, but they claimed the abuse went from bad to worse.
By the time Amber started her third school, her mother said the verbal abuse escalated to physical attacks.
'There had been boys that had been saying some quite vile things to her, and then one day they just decided that they'd come up and slap her legs as hard as they could,' Mrs Panozza said.
Amber's parents (mother Michelle pictured) revealed she was so scared of going to school they decided to pull her out at the end of term three last year
The attack was so severe it left welt marks and hand marks on her legs, which Mrs Panozza said further added to her daughter's anxiety and fear of going to shcool.
She said they complained to the school - Helensvale High - and were told the boys would be punished but nothing came of the official report.
Mrs Panozza removed Amber from the school at the end of term three last year hoping to put an end to the abuse, but she then received the video three weeks ago.
Confronting footage showing the two schoolgirls hurling abuse at the teenager was deleted from Facebook after it was viewed tens of thousands of times in just hours.
Ms Panozza told of other times in recent years her daughter had suffered heavy bullying (pictured welt marks from being slapped hard on her legs)
Speaking about her daughter's latest torment, Mrs Panozza said 'if that was my children on that video I would have taken them to the
