Bullies drove a Central Texas teenager to take her life, but her death did not stop the taunting.

The mom says her 14-year-old daughter was bullied by the same girls for five years. She ended her life three months ago, but her mom says the bullying lives on.

Chess Stroud was a poet and an artist.

"She drew a lot of anime pictures," said Gwen Ranson, Chess's mother. "I have several more, but they're put up right now."

Ranson says it's her individuality that made her a victim of bullying.

"They would push her down, they would cuss at her call her a whore. They would get other children to go after her," she said. "Threatening phone call that said they were going to stab my daughter."

It only continued once they were at Travis High School.

"They would actually knock her tray out her hand in the cafeteria," she said.

Chess ended her life two weeks before her 15th birthday.

"I picked her up, she was hanging on the sheet. She had got a sheet and wrapped it on the stairs," Ranson said. "We laid her down and we tried to do CPR on her, but it was too late, she was gone."

Ranson says she's tried turning to the police and several other agencies, but she couldn't stop it then and is still dealing with it now.

"I don't know why she would post that. I think they're bragging about it. I think they're very proud that they forced my daughter into doing what she did," she said.

They are just children, but Ranson says these teenagers are responsible for destroying her daughter's spirit.

"She would come home crying and say mom they're not going to stop bothering me, I think they're going to do something really bad to me," she said.

Bullying turned a beautiful, bright smiling face into nothing but ashes in a wooden box.

Ranson says the bullying didn't die with her daughter and she's being harassed too. She says she's had to change her own cell phone number because of threatening messages.