Schoolyard Bully Convicted Summary

             Schoolyard Bully Convicted

“If I try to get help, things will get worse, they are always looking for a new person to beat up and they are the toughest girls.” That is what Dawn-Marie wrote on her good-bye note before she hung herself on Nov.10.2000. This story is about a 14-year old girl, Dawn-Marie, who ended her life because of bullying. 3 girls at school, threatened to beat her up, and worst, kill her. They were not named, but the main bully supposably cried when she learned what her bullying had caused, but was caught smirking from it and smiling when she met up with her friends to smoke. The odd thing was that the main bully and Dawn-Marie used to be great friends, have sleepovers and spend Halloween together, then the bully heard second-hand that Dawn-Marie saying things behind her back about her. Dawn-Marie had had too much and was done putting up with all the things that were happening to her so she thought that there was no other way for it to stop. She didnt think about who would find her, or what her family would feel, she thought about herself first. The bully who is now 16, said she “Very Much” regrets what she caused. She is no longer bullying since Geoffrey Gaul, a provincial Crown counsellor who talks for Prosecutors from other provinces, said that he hasn’t noticed any cases in B.C., except for a charge of assault after a schoolyard fight about two years ago on Vancouver Island.