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.

Now, Melinda and Crystal, like the Everett family, have become campaigners against bullying and are encouraging others to speak out when they see the harmful behaviour and reach out to children they think might be victims. Melinda and Crystal also want to see legislation changed to see under-age bullies face real consequences for their actions.
Wollongong mum Melinda told the Daily Mail it was "infuriating" more hasn't been done so far to prevent such deaths, speaking of her own pain at losing her daughter on 7 December 2016.
"We'll be living this for the rest of our lives. Time doesn't heal. The pain doesn't lift. Nothing gets easy. You just learn to live with that pain," she said.
Melinda said what was particularly hard to take was that Jessica's teenaged bullies seemingly faced no consequences for their incredibly harmful actions.

Top Comments
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?