15 year-old Phoebe Prince committed suicide January 14th two days before a school dance in Northwestern Masschusetts, due to fellow classmates bullying her. Now police have indicted 9 teenagers where they bullied her into committing suicide at her parent's home. Prince and her family were immigrants from Ireland, she was the focus of her fellow students bullying her and even times within view of school staff and yet they did nothing to prevent the bullying from going any further than it did. From January 14th until now there has been no action taken until they indicted nine of her fellow class mates. The parents and some of the other parents of the community were in outraged that they asked for the Superintendent Gus Sayer to reassign from office.
*The students named in the indictments are Sean Mulveyhill, 17; Kayla Narey, 17; Austin Renaud, 18; Ashley Longe; 16, Flannery Mullins, 16; and Sharon Chanon Velazquez, 16. Mulveyhill and Renaud were the only students charged with statutory rape.*
The thing that gets me is that she was being bullied due to the fact that she was in a brief relationship with a guy. When did that become a source for bullying? But I guess times have changed for the worse.
My thoughts and prayers go to the Prince family and may God Bless them and help them through this dark and difficult time.
*Gotten from Aol News
Writer David Knowles
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/phoebe-prince-suicide-leads-to-indictment-of-9-south-hadley-students/19418522. March 30, 2010.
3/30/10
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