Warning: This post talks about the suicides of three young teens.
When mums Melinda Graham and Crystal Bell heard about 14-year-old Amy ‘Dolly’ Everett’s suicide, it reminded them of their own devastating losses.
Melinda lost her 14-year-old daughter, Jessica Tolhurst, after she experienced relentless online bullying in 2016.
In August last year, Crystal’s 13-year-old daughter and bullying-victim, Libby Bell, took her own life.
Their stories are painfully similar to that of the Northern Territory teen, whose family has called for action against the kind of bullying that had led to Dolly’s death on 3 January.
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I don't think putting all the blame on the bullies is productive. We need our kids to have strategies to cope, to get off the internet if need be and to ask for help, to change schools.
We also need to pull our bully kids into line without making excuses for terrible behaviour.
But a resilient kid will not kill themselves because of horrible people.
dad not the same as mummy. Are you for real?