Once the face of Akubra with her beaming smile, Amy ‘Dolly’ Everett’s tragic death shocked the nation.
Now, in a heartbreaking interview with the teenager’s parents, further details behind the extent of their daughter’s suffering have been revealed.
Suspended for drinking, blackmailed to send candid pictures to a boy and brawling with students formed the foundation of events which would eventually push the beautiful 14-year-old too far.
Tick and Kate Everett couldn’t hold back tears as they explained their bullied daughter’s torment before she tragically took her own life on on January 3.
Amy ‘Dolly’ Everett’s (pictured) tragic death shocked the nation after she took her own life
Her parents, Tick and Kate Everett, emotionally spoke about their daughter’s death in an episode of A Current Affair on Tuesday night
Mrs Everett broke down as she explained the events that lead up to Dolly’s untimely death
Both Dolly and her big sister Meg were to go to boarding school for their high school years – but from the beginning of her schooling, Dolly found difficulties fitting in at Scots PGC College in Warwick.
‘The first term she had issues, as any parent would I asked the school how they were dealing with it,’ Mrs Everett explained.
Other students had called the then-12-year-old a ‘s***’, shocking her parents who were unaware children so young would even know what the word meant.
Mr and Mrs Everett revealed insight into the ongoing suffering experienced by their teenager (pictured)
Dolly suffered many years of cyber and schoolyard bullying before her tragic death
Dolly had so much to live for. ‘I wish she could see herself through my eyes and not through the eyes of the people who made her feel like that,’ her mum told A Current Affair
Her parents offered their support and tried to reassured their daughter it would pass as bullies picked on her and continued to label her with harsh profanities.
Eventually, Dolly had enough and stood up to one of the male students who would always pick on her by calling her names and pushing her.
‘It just got too much and she turned around and decked him and then the school suspended her so they were like ”we don’t tolerate this behaviour” but we were like ”but what’s made this child, a 12-year-old girl go ”I need to defend myself” against these kids,’ both parents said.
Although they didn’t agree with Dolly’s snap decision to fight back, Mr and Mrs Everett couldn’t grasp how only their daughter was punished when she was originally the victim.
Mr Everett said the school’s position was they didn’t tolerate the physical violence and it was Dolly’s word against the bullies in regard to the verbal attacks.
To this day, the devastated couple don’t believe the boys’ behind the vicious name-calling were ever punished.
‘Dolly will never know the great pain and emptiness she left behind,’ her dad said
In her second year at high school, Dolly’s phone privileges were taken away from her after ‘inappropriate’ photos were discovered to have been sent to another male student when she was 13 years old.
Her parents believe that triggered other girls to turn on their daughter and saw a change in Dolly as she started getting in trouble at school.
Mrs Everett accepts now there was a lot her and her husband did not know about going on with their beloved second child.
She was suspended again for drinking as one of a group of students, admitting to her parents she had done it.
Her mum suspected something was going on with Dolly as she couldn’t understand the strange out of character behaviour which was letting her down.
Dolly had so much to live for: ‘I wish she could see herself through my eyes and not through the eyes of the people who made her feel like that,’ her mum told A Current Affair.
Dolly loved her family, animals, art and music, butterflies and books, labelled by her father as ‘adventurous’
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