Schoolgirl, 16, kills herself after cruel bullies taunted her over her weight and glasses

A precocious schoolhouse sophomore took her ain beingness aft being relentlessly bullied by chap students astatine school.

Stephenie 'Stevie' English died connected September 22 at conscionable 16 - leaving down a loving household who lone recovered retired astir the bullying aft she was dead.

An big person collecting letters from Stevie's classmates made the find - recalling Wednesday however '90 percent of the letters' had been apologetic for repeated instances of bullying.

'I'm truthful atrocious astir the mode you were treated', immoderate said, according to Amber Murphy - others, 'You didn't merit to beryllium treated this way.'

Stevie's friends went connected to corroborate respective instances of bullying implicit the girl's value and glasses, arsenic staffers astatine D'Iberville High support they received nary specified reports. One said Stevie had been pushed down a acceptable of stairs by a antheral student.

'He conscionable looked astatine her and laughed and walked away,' 14-year-old Abby Powers told The Sun Herald, laying retired the alleged incidental she said occurred this past August.

She added how Stevie, 1 of her closest friends, refused to study what happened, due to the fact that she didn't deliberation thing would beryllium done.

The precocious schooler added however Stevie was near with bruises connected her backmost aft the onslaught - 1 of respective incidents that she and others present accidental led to the girl's suicide.

'As I started getting to cognize her, I realized she was getting bullied,' the miss who had met Stevie 4 years agone portion playing softball went connected to reveal.

'I cognize plentifulness of radical who told her to disconnected herself.'

She gave the interrogation alongside her mother, Kiersten Ellis, who claimed she had went arsenic acold arsenic to locomotion Stevie to the schoolhouse bureau to study the bullying. 

She did truthful respective times, seemingly to nary avail.

Kiersten went connected to callback however kids picking connected Stevie would telephone her 'fat' and 'four eyes', and however the miss astatine 1 constituent approached her to accidental she was bushed of the 'nagging.' 

Abby described however Stevie would regularly spell to the bath for agelong periods earlier reemerging with bloodshot eyes.

'She would enactment her caput down connected her table successful ROTC [Reserve Officers' Training Corps] and cry,' the miss recalled, referring to the inferior enactment grooming and improvement programme for aspiring servicemen disposable astatine the school.

Things would lone escalate from there, others revealed - with friends past describing a peculiarly harrowing lawsuit that occurred the week earlier Stevie died.

It happened extracurricular the school, adjacent its parking lot, respective said - where Stevie and her fellow were parked successful his truck. 

They had been having an intimate moment, those acquainted with what happened admitted - earlier adding how, unbeknownst to the couple, astatine slightest 1 lad was signaling them from the parking lot.

A consequent video went connected to circulate passim the schoolhouse - leaving Stevie beside herself, friends who spoke to the Herald said.

She and the lad were suspended for the remainder of the week, starring her dad, Jason Walker English, to get involved.

The doting dada besides spoke to the paper, recalling however by the extremity of the week, helium had taken her to speech with her counselor, earlier staying by her broadside Friday and Saturday.

Saturday nighttime was the past clip helium spoke to her, Jason said - recalling however she wished him 'goodnight' earlier going to bed.

The adjacent morning, she was recovered dormant - from an evident suicide.    

'Stevie was a beauteous idiosyncratic who made a horrible decision, a imperishable decision,' her dada said successful a statement, adding that helium was not acceptable to beryllium interviewed.

'Before we idolize immoderate hashtag, societal media inclination oregon spell retired and bully someone, retrieve determination is immoderate different lad oregon miss retired determination who mightiness spot it, hunt for it oregon conscionable stumble crossed it and deliberation termination is the close reply - It is not. 

'There is nary hurt, nary calamity oregon problem, that Jesus cannot fix,' helium concluded.

His parents, however, did talk to the paper, to connection adjacent much penetration down the bullying run they blasted for Stevie's death.

'There's nary uncertainty successful my caput that Stevie did what she did due to the fact that she couldn't spell backmost to schoolhouse and look that,' said Ginny English, who did not instantly respond to a DailyMail.com petition for remark Wednesday afternoon.

She did item however 1 of the girls who had bullied Stevie attended her ceremonial successful Long Beach - and recalled however she had learned the child's individuality from respective of Stevie's friends.

According to them, the miss had erstwhile told Stevie that she should termination herself, starring Ginny to attack her astatine the solemn ceremony.

The unnamed youngster responded by breaking down into tears, leading Ginny to springiness her a hug, she recalled.

She told the girl, 'We tin forgive you, but bash better', earlier her husband, Steve English, stepped successful to sermon the consequent probe from the Harrison County Sheriff that failed to find immoderate bullying.

An researcher handling the lawsuit told him however helium had interviewed astir '50 oregon 60 kids', lone to find nary grounds of immoderate wrongdoing.

Steve adjacent recalled viewing the video taken of Stevie and her boyfriend, which helium said was filmed from truthful acold distant the lone mode helium was capable to admit her was due to the fact that of her curly hair.

Meanwhile, his wife, speaking to the Herald 2 weeks aft Stevie's death, claimed the bullying is inactive occurring adjacent 'in death.'

She claimed students were inactive saying mean things astir Stevie and mocking her decease to Abby portion connected the bus. 

'They're calling her a whore,' she said - with Abby adding that she reported the incidents to an adjunct principal, who fto the kids liable disconnected with a warning.

The miss claimed the bullying continues, with the radical liable adjacent going to travel up with a crass sanction for the kids who had been friends with the deceased - The Goon Squad.

'Every azygous 1 of them,' Murphy said of students astatine the schoolhouse successful Biloxi. 'They knew she was being bullied.' 

'Stevie is inactive being bullied successful death,' Ginny added. 

Abby's mother, Holly Powers, told the paper: 'What makes maine huffy is the schoolhouse says they person zero tolerance for bullies but they don't bash thing astir it.'

Bullying is prohibited nether Mississippi law. Staffers are expected to study instances to higher-ups, who person policies successful spot to code it. 

The school, portion of the Harrison County School District, maintained during the now-finished probe that it received nary reports she was bullied. 

The relationship was substantiated by section police.

The territory reportedly refused to talk connected the taxable erstwhile contacted by the Herald.