' We forgive girl bullies who killed our Rosie - DAD AFTER GUILTY VERDICTS; BULLIED TO DEATH DIGNITY OF DEAD GIRL'S PARENTS.

Byline: REBECCA EVANS 

THE parents of a girl who jumped to her death after being bullied by two teenage thugs said yesterday they would pray for her killers.

Reverend Simon Boxall, 54, and his wife Rachel, 51, told how they had forgiven Kemi Ajose and Hatice Can for attacking their 19-year-old daughter Rosimeiri before she threw herself out of a second-floor window.

The couple said they hoped their remarkable show of compassion would help the sick yobs to come to terms with the consequences of their brutal behaviour.

Speaking minutes after the evil pair were found guilty of manslaughter, Mr Boxall added: "We continue to pray for those who are responsible for Rosie's death.

"We want them to know that we forgive them. That does not mean that what they did doesn't matter.

"Of course it does. A life is of such worth that only God can show us its value.

"Forgiveness means we refuse to be shackled by bitterness. Our prayer is that forgiveness will allow the girls to be released from the burden of what they did."

Brazilian-born Rosimeiri plunged to her death after her 19-year-old friend Ajose and Can, 15, subjected her to a horrific, humiliating and prolonged attack at a squalid hostel where the older thug lived while boozed up on vodka.

The youngster, who had been adopted from the slums of Rio at the age of two, was punched, slapped, sprayed in the face with deodorant and branded a "whore" and "slag" as her clothes were ripped from her.

A police source said: "When Rosie jumped from the window she must have known that she had no hope of surviving but that is how terrified she was."

Such was the extent of her tormentors' brutality that Can, 13 at the time, taunted her as she lay on the pavement dying: "Serves you right bitch."

Her ordeal began when Can became jealous of her after a boy she fancied started taking more interest in Rosie.

Part of the assault was filmed on a mobile phone, which showed the victim cowering on a bed as the younger thug ordered Ajose, then 17, to beat her around the head at the flat for vulnerable teenagers in Blackheath, South East London.

At one point she phoned the boy and gloated: "Your girl's getting beaten up."

After a three-week trial at the Old Bailey, a jury convicted the yobs of killing Rosie. The pair wailed and wept loudly as the verdicts were read out.

Mr and Mrs Boxall sat holding hands at the side of the court as the drama unfolded.

The thugs' tears and distress was a far cry from their smug and cynical demeanour during the hearing. Can had been seen laughing and joking in the court building while chatting on her mobile about drugs and sex.

Rosie came to England after Mr Boxall and his teacher wife rescued her from a orphanage in a Rio suburb where they both worked as missionaries. She had been abandoned by her alcoholic mother.

Along with their four sons, they brought the toddler back to start a better life.

But Rosie's limited English meant she struggled to adapt. And as she got older she began to rebel against her Christian upbringing. She dropped out of school and left the family home at the Open Gateway Community Church in Thamesmead at 18.

Her fateful friendship with Ajose began when the pair met at a college in nearby Plumstead while studying for an NVQ in childcare.

Although Rosie occasionally phoned and visited her parents, at the time of her death in May last year, they did not know where she was living.

Her grandfather, retired chartered surveyor John Pullinger, 83, said: "She desperately wanted to break out and do what she wanted, without the restrictions of living with her family."

Mr Boxall added: "We still miss Rosie greatly, but we do not for an instant regret the decision we took when she was almost three to adopt her.

"She has given us so many moments of pure joy, and we are thankful for those times. No one can ever hurt her again."

Can and Ajose had no convictions but had both been cautioned by police.

Ajose was cautioned for theft in 2009 and for assaulting a police officer in April.

Can was cautioned for criminal damage in April last year. She was described by police as "a cocky, callous, manipulative and calculating bully".

Of Turkish descent, she grew up in a broken home, surrounded by domestic violence. And despite her young years, she had quickly become a hardened thug.

On one occasion she locked a girl in a bedroom and threatened to strangle her with a mobile phone charger flex.

An officer who interviewed Can after Rosie's death said: "She never showed any emotion. I've dealt with adults who have been more scared and nervous during an interview. She didn't care at all."

And a police source added: "She is younger than Ajose but she was the leader of the gang.

"She was 13 but a big 13. Out of the group she was strongest willed and quite frightening for a girl of her age. A big bully.

"She has never shown any remorse or shed a tear for Rosie."

Can, of Belvedere, Kent, was remanded into the care of the local authority. Ajose, of Charlton, South East London, was remanded to a psychiatric hospital where she is being detained. The pair will be sentenced next month.

TEENWAS HAUNTED BY PAST

ROSIMEIRI was just three when British missionaries Simon and Rachel Boxall plucked her from hundreds of unwanted children in a Brazilian orphanage.

It should have been the start of a new life in the care of a loving and supportive family.

But the sadness the youngster felt at being abandoned by her birth parents slowly destroyed the dream and led ultimately to her tragic, untimely death at the age of just 19.

By 13, Rosimeiri was such a handful that Rachel decided to take her to her birthplace, hoping a reunion with her birth mother might help heal the emotional scars.

The trip ended in bitter disappointment when Rosimeiri was rejected by her street prostitute mum. Friends say she never recovered and was haunted by her past.

Pal Kay Davis recalled: "Rosie came back in a much worst state than when she left. She was a very loveable kid, but also very lost. She could never get over the fact her mother didn't want her."

Simon and Rachel, who have four sons of their own, spent 20 years in Brazil before returning to the UK with all five kids in 2006.

Friends say Rosimeiri struggled to adapt to life in Thamesmead, South East London and became withdrawn.

She left school with no GCSEs then dropped out of college before moving into temporary accommodation.

Her grandad John Pullinger said: "All the children found life difficult when they came back and Rosimeiri did not get on well at school.

"Her brothers are very clever and outgoing but she was shy, and it's possible she didn't feel she was good enough."

"She had not quite cut the family off, but we don't know anything about these people she was with when she died."

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HAPPIER Rosimeiri and brother Josh BULLY Thug Ajose wept when convicted BULLY Smug Can on her phone at court VICTIM Tragic Rosie died after brutal attack GRIM Hostel where Rosie leapt to death