Bethany was a survivor, eight years ago enduring brain cancer and the removal of a tumor that damaged nerves and gave her a �crooked� smile, her father said. Feucht said she is certain that bullying led to Bethany�s suicide, noting that Bethany�s friend told her that a group of classmates picked on the girls relentlessly on Wednesday. "She was my princess, that's my baby girl. If you or someone you know is considering suicide, call the Franklin County Suicide Prevention Hotline at 614-221-5445; the Teen Suicide Prevention Hotline at 614-294-3300; or the Lifeline national organization for suicide prevention at 1-800-273-8255. 
 
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 @DeanNarciso  Outside Triad Middle School, Bethany Thompson hopped on the school bus Oct. 19 with a consuming darkness shared only with her friend. Triad School District Superintendent Chris Piper confirmed the school was aware of the bullying. "Last school year, district officials investigated a complaint raised by the student and appropriately resolved the same. Piper said efforts are underway at Triad �to change the school climate ... and re-evaluate our anti-bullying educational side so that we are able to determine when things go from normal misbehavior to a pattern of bullying and to deter and stop misbehavior.� 
 
 Teachers, students and others in the North Lewisburg school already are asking questions. Bethany and her friend went to administrators with anti-bullying posters on Bethany's last day at school, and were told they couldn't be used, Feucht said. A fundraiser to help with funeral expenses and raise money for children�s programs is scheduled for 3 to 7 p.m. Sunday at North Lewisburg Methodist Church. He is trying not to speculate about what caused Bethany to feel hopeless. Anyone who's been picked on, they've been Bethany."
– An 11-year-old girl who beat cancer as a preschooler killed herself last month after what mom Wendy Feucht describes as unceasing bullying, CNN reports. Bethany Thompson, a sixth-grader in Cable, Ohio, had been free of cancer after undergoing radiation therapy for a brain tumor at the age of 3, but the treatments marred her nerves, leaving her with a "crooked" smile. That, along with her curly hair, led to the bullying against Bethany, particularly by a certain group of boys—and on Oct. 19, after telling her best friend she was going to end her life, Bethany hunted for and found a loaded handgun on a high shelf inside her family's home and shot herself before her friend's father could contact Bethany's mom, says Paul Thompson, Bethany's dad, per the Columbus Dispatch. Triad Middle School was aware of the bullying—the school's superintendent confirmed with CNN that it "investigated a complaint raised by the student and appropriately resolved the same"—with Feucht noting she had had a conversation with the principal about it just a few days earlier. She says she found out that Bethany, who saw a counselor to help her deal with self-esteem issues, and her friends had even crafted anti-bullying signs but were prohibited by at least one school administrator from displaying them. "I'm sure she felt pretty defeated," Feucht tells the Dispatch. "I've had this constant in my life for 12 years and now it's gone," she adds to CNN. "Nothing's going to be able to fill that hole." (A 13-year-old Staten Island boy who killed himself in August left behind a note on bullying.)