Schoolyard Bully Convicted, by Glenn Bohn is about a 14 year old girl who commits suicide. Dawn-Marie Wesley, from Mission, B.C hung herself in a family home on November. 10, 2000. The schoolyard bully who cannot be named because she was charged under the federal Young Offenders Act was 15 years old at the time. Initially, Wesley and the girl convicted of criminal harassment were friends. They had sleepovers and had spent Halloween together. Dawn-Marie was threatened between November 5 and 10, during the last day of her life. On the day of suicide, the offender yelled at Dawn-Marie saying: "You are f---ing dead". In a suicide note she told her parents she was ending her life because three tough girls at her school were after her. "If I try to get help, it will get worse," Dawn-Marie wrote. "They are always looking for a new person to beat up and they are the toughest girls." The bully said she "very much" regrets her actions. "Please do not hold yourself accountable for her death," Cindy Wesley, the mother of suicide victim Dawn-Marie, tells another teenager in the bullying case."
