A young person from Vermont was harassed by college bullies relentlessly to the purpose the place she took her personal life.
Isabelle Vezina-Dykema, 14, from Winooski close to Burlington had been attending Mill Faculty, another highschool for college students with advanced wants however she was the sufferer of fixed bullying.
The teenager was in her first 12 months on the college and was bullied each in particular person and thru textual content messages that each made enjoyable of her look and that of her mother who’s coping with well being issues.
Her mom, Heather Miller, mentioned how on the day of Isabelle’s suicide she got here dwelling extraordinarily distressed from college and determined to provide her a while to decompress, however unbeknownst to her the bullying had reached breaking level.
Isabelle Vezina-Dykema, 14, proper, from Winooski close to Burlington is seen alongside her mom, Heather Miller, left. Isabelle took her personal life after fixed bullying in particular person and over textual content
The 14-year-old from Winooski close to Burlington had been attending Mill Faculty, another highschool for college students with advanced wants however she was the sufferer of fixed bullying
‘I assumed I used to be doing the suitable factor, however in 35 minutes our entire lives modified,’ Miller mentioned to WCAX, describing her as ‘spunky, so outgoing [and someone who] liked to bounce.
‘She was excited in regards to the college 12 months, enthusiastic about being a freshman. “I am lastly in highschool, I am not going to let issues trouble me, I will succeed.’
Her mom wrote on Fb how she takes consolation from the very fact her daughter’s organs had been capable of be transplanted.
‘She saved 7 lives and gave a toddler sight. Her mind was obtained by autism analysis which is a close to and pricey trigger to us,’ Miller wrote.
Mother, Heather Miller, mentioned Isabelle’s bullies made enjoyable of her mom’s look
The teenager was in her first 12 months on the college and was bullied each in particular person and over textual content
The Mill Faculty are investigating the claims of bullying and haven’t elaborated on the claims
Isabelle’s ashes now sit in an urn atop a cupboard in the lounge of the household dwelling
In the meantime, The Mill Faculty are investigating the claims of bullying however haven’t elaborated on the allegations.
‘We, on the Mill Faculty, have been devastated by the lack of one among our college students. We’re working with the suitable businesses and proceed to supply counseling assist,’ officers mentioned in a press release.
Teen suicides look like a rising downside in Vermont with no less than one loss of life yearly since 2019 in 14 to 14-year-old.
‘Very a lot our adolescents not solely really feel issues in extremes, in addition they really feel like now can be eternally. They could have this actually sturdy emotion and really feel trapped,’ mentioned Matt Wolf, an skilled Neighborhood Organizer with the nonprofit Vermont Afterschool to CBS3.
The Vermont Division of Psychological Well being says no less than one third of highschool college students expertise poor psychological well being.
‘That may be a explanation for alarm for me as a result of that signifies that near half of highschool college students really feel like they do not matter,’ mentioned Chris Allen from VDMH.
‘Our bullies are calling for assist or crying out for assist in the one means they know. I feel if we tackle them in additional of a therapeutic means, extra of a regarding means as an alternative of a punitive means, we’d truly get someplace to scale back bullying,’ Allen mentioned.
