Kiusamine
Bullying
In march 2000 an honour-roll student named Hamed Nastoh jumped off the Pattullo Bridge in
New Westminster, B.C. Hamed, 14, left a seven-page note that said he was killing himself
because his classmates tormented him with names like gay or faggot. He had never told his
mother he was being bullied.
A few months later, on November 10, another 14-year-old, Dawn-Marie Wesley of Mission,
B.C., hanged herself with a dog leash in her bedroom. She too left a note for her family. It
read: "If I try to get help, it will get worse