Incident
At the age of 14, Dawn-Marie Wesley committed suicide by hanging herself with a dog leash in her bedroom after experiencing a cycle of psychological abuse and verbal threats ("bullying") from three female classmates, Kyla Mae Dunn, Donna Harley and Darla Wilson, according to her suicide note. Her body was discovered by her 13-year-old brother who had come to her room to call her to dinner with the family. Mission's Royal Canadian Mounted Police found no crime had been committed, and some police officers were accused of a possible cover up, as one of the bullies accused was the daughter of an officer in the town. The incident garnered international media attention, which led to the groundbreaking investigation by Canada's Crown, and a precedent setting court case where for the first time in North American courts, teenage defendants were made to stand trial for bullying. All three teens plead guilty to Wesley's suicide. Kyla Mae Dunn admitted to beating Dawn-Marie up, Donna Harley got into numerous confrontations with Dawn-Marie and Darla Wilson called Dawn-Marie and verbally threatened her right before she hung herself.
Read more about this topic: Rats & Bullies: The Dawn-Marie Wesley Story
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