Posted by Nancy on October 2, 2009, 10:25 pm, in reply to "RATS & BULLIES - A Powerful Film"
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: Roberta McMillan and Ray Buffer (official
: website is www.ratsandbullies.com) probes
: the suicide of a 14-year-old girl from
: Mission, BC named Dawn-Marie Wesley, who
: took her own life by hanging herself with a
: dog leash in her bedroom after systematic
: bullying and threats by three teenage girls
: from her school. Her suicide was discovered
: by her then-13-year-old brother who had come
: to her room prior to the family's dinner, to
: use her TV. The bullies were named in
: Dawn-Marie's suicide note which prompted an
: investigation by RCMP and Crown Counsel
: leading to two precedent setting cases by
: Canada's provincial court in which the
: bullies were held accountable.
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: Relational Aggression is discussed with a
: focus on female bullying. An added cultural
: component to the story is the role of
: aboriginal sentencing circles, which were
: utilized in sentencing one of the bullies,
: since the victim and one of the accused were
: both Native, or First nations. This form of
: Restorative Justice is beginning to gain
: wider appeal by legal systems around the
: globe.
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: Actions and their consequences are explored
: through interviews with Dawn-Marie Wesley's
: mother, Cindy Wesley and brother D.J., as
: well as MLA Randy Hawes who was Mayor at the
: time of the incident, Judge Jill Rounthwaite
: who presided over one of the trials, Kyla
: Mae Dunn - one of the bullies who was
: prosecuted, Dawn-Marie's best friend - Paula
: Settee, Kevin Gillies - a Mission news
: reporter, Lee Hanlon - a paralegal who
: assisted the victim's family, Karen McQuade
: - a co-founder of a bully prevention
: activism group named PAVE, which arose from
: Dawn-Marie's demise, and NY Times
: best-selling author and President of
: Washington DC's EMPOWER, Rosalind Wiseman.
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