That's also what I got from the article, specifically: "Despite everything they'd done, I didn't want them to be arrested. I didn't even want them to be punished, I just wanted it to stop."

I can sympathize with the author in that she just wanted the whole thing to end, but that's the thing with bullies: until they start feeling some pain, they don't stop.

Bullies are cowards. You don't have to get all of them, just enough of them to scare the rest.