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Prosecutor: 9 teens charged in bullying that led to girl's suicide
By the CNN Wire Staff
March 29, 2010 7:16 p.m. EDT
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Phoebe Prince, who had recently moved from Ireland,
committed suicide on January 14 in Northhampton, Massachusetts
(CNN) -- Nine Massachusetts teenagers have been charged with involvement in a months-long campaign of bullying that led to the suicide in January of a 15-year-old girl, a prosecutor said Monday.
Phoebe Prince's body was found hanging in the stairway leading to her family's second-floor apartment in South Hadley, Northwestern District Attorney Elizabeth D. Scheibel told reporters in the western Massachusetts town of Northampton.
"It appears that Phoebe's death on January 14 followed a torturous day for her when she was subjected to verbal harassment and physical abuse," she said.
Earlier in the day, Prince had been harassed as she studied in the library at South Hadley High School, apparently in the presence of a faculty member and several students, none of whom reported it until after the death, Scheibel said.
Prince, who had recently moved to the area with her family from Ireland, was also harassed as she walked through the halls of the school that day and as she walked on the street toward her home, Scheibel said.
The harassment that day, by one male and two females, "appears to have been motivated by the group's displeasure with Phoebe's brief dating relationship with a male student that had ended six weeks earlier," she said.
But that day's events were not isolated; they "were the culmination of a nearly three-month campaign of verbally abusive, assaultive behavior and threats of physical harm toward Phoebe on school grounds by several South Hadley students," Scheibel added.
"Their conduct far exceeded the limits of normal teenage relationship-related quarrels. The investigation revealed relentless activity directed toward Phoebe designed to humiliate her and to make it impossible for her to remain at school."
In the indictments, returned Friday but not made public until Monday, the Hampshire County grand jury charged 17-year-old Sean Mulveyhill of South Hadley with statutory rape, violation of civil rights with bodily injury resulting, criminal harassment and disturbance of a school assembly.
The indictments charged 18-year-old Austin Renaud of Springfield with statutory rape.
Kayla Narey, 17, of South Hadley, was charged with violation of civil rights with bodily injury resulting, criminal harassment and disturbance of a school assembly.
CNN was not able to reach any of the three, none of whom has been taken into custody, according to Scheibel. She did not elaborate on the statutory rape charges.
Charges against another three girls included violation of civil rights with bodily injury resulting; two were also charged with stalking.
Three other girls from South Hadley were named in four delinquency complaints from Hampshire Franklin Juvenile Court. Their charges included violation of civil rights with bodily injury resulting, criminal harassment and disturbance of a school assembly, violation of civil rights, criminal harassment and assault by means of a dangerous weapon. One of the juveniles was charged in a separate complaint involving a second victim, Scheibel said.
Though initial news reports blamed Prince's suicide on cyberbullying, Scheibel said the students' actions were "primarily conducted on school grounds during school hours and while school was in session." She said any use of electronic social networks was secondary to "commonly understood bullying methods."
The bullying of Prince was common knowledge to most of the student body and to certain faculty, staff and administrators, Scheibel said. At least four students and two faculty members had intervened during the harassment, but the school's code of conduct was inconsistently enforced, she said.
Though the faculty, staff and administrators' behavior was not deemed criminal, "the actions, or inactions, of some adults at the school are troublesome," she said.
Scheibel said the Prince family had asked "that the public refrain from vigilantism in favor of allowing the judicial system an opportunity to provide a measure of justice for Phoebe." CNN was not able to reach the Prince family.
Scheibel said the investigation was continuing and that a 10th person may be charged.
Arraignments will occur "in the near future," she said.
Several of the students remain in the school. In a statement, South Hadley Public Schools Assistant Superintendent Christine Sweklo said school officials would meet with the district attorney to review any new evidence.
"Once we are able to obtain this information, we will be able to make a more comprehensive statement and possibly take further action against the students still attending South Hadley High School," she said.
The statutory rape charges could result in penalties of up to life in prison, said Elizabeth Farris, a lawyer in the prosecutor's office. A conviction on a violation-of-civil-rights charge could result in 10 years in prison; a conviction for criminal harassment up to 2 1/2 years; a conviction for disturbance of school assembly up to one month, she said.
Those 17 and older will be tried as adults in Hampshire County Superior Court. The juveniles will be tried in juvenile court. A juvenile court judge may choose to institute an adult penalty, a combination of adult and juvenile penalties or a juvenile penalty alone, Farris said.
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I support this.
I also support putting that dumb bitch of a mother in jail that posed as a teenage boy on MySpace (or whatever) and bullied that other teenage girl into killing herself.
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Absolutely revolting story.
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I support this.
I also support putting that dumb bitch of a mother in jail that posed as a teenage boy on MySpace (or whatever) and bullied that other teenage girl into killing herself.
Yep. And since they're prosecuting teens who bully, ...I can't wait until they go after 'adults' who do the same.
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I'd like to know how in the world these girls were still roaming the halls up to this point. Very sad for this girl and her family. Her parents already moved back to Ireland.
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I'd like to know how in the world these girls were still roaming the halls up to this point. Very sad for this girl and her family. Her parents already moved back to Ireland.
What a disaster.
If I were the parent I personally would have beaten the living shit out of the teachers who saw this and did nothing.
This is what most public schools are all about, teachers there for a bloated salary, pensions, etc and doing nothing. No teaching, no role modeling, no instruction, just passing time.
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Yep. And since they're prosecuting teens who bully, ...I can't wait until they go after 'adults' who do the same.
You would be the first one on here to be prosecuted.Just because you put a smiley stickey after an insult its still an insult and an attempt to bully.The difference is,here we dont kill ourselves,here we might kill you for doing it.
This girl was a gutless coward.My son was getting bullied when he was 7 years old by a kid in school.I spoke to the teacher and told her to keep the kid away from my son,nothing.I spoke to the principal,nothing.So finally I told my son "if he does it again,pull out your pencil and try to stick it in his arm and tell him if you do it again I will poke your eye out".The next day,thats what happened.My son got in trouble,we were called in and I said "i TOLD HIM TO DO THAT".
The bottom line,the kid and my son became best friends.We had him over to the house many times for sleepovers and even took him on vacation with us.Why?Because the only thing people respect is violence and hostility.Killing yourself is not the answer,killing them or letting them know your willing to kill them is the answer.
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Good post. Its called Law of the Jungle. It always works.
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You would be the first one on here to be prosecuted.Just because you put a smiley stickey after an insult its still an insult and an attempt to bully.The difference is,here we dont kill ourselves,here we might kill you for doing it.
This girl was a gutless coward.My son was getting bullied when he was 7 years old by a kid in school.I spoke to the teacher and told her to keep the kid away from my son,nothing.I spoke to the principal,nothing.So finally I told my son "if he does it again,pull out your pencil and try to stick it in his arm and tell him if you do it again I will poke your eye out".The next day,thats what happened.My son got in trouble,we were called in and I said "i TOLD HIM TO DO THAT".
The bottom line,the kid and my son became best friends.We had him over to the house many times for sleepovers and even took him on vacation with us.Why?Because the only thing people respect is violence and hostility.Killing yourself is not the answer,killing them or letting them know your willing to kill them is the answer.
Hahahahahahaha...that's HARDCORE!!!! ;D
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Sad story. I hope the school is held responsible for failing to protect the kid.
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You would be the first one on here to be prosecuted.Just because you put a smiley stickey after an insult its still an insult and an attempt to bully.The difference is,here we dont kill ourselves,here we might kill you for doing it.
This girl was a gutless coward.My son was getting bullied when he was 7 years old by a kid in school.I spoke to the teacher and told her to keep the kid away from my son,nothing.I spoke to the principal,nothing.So finally I told my son "if he does it again,pull out your pencil and try to stick it in his arm and tell him if you do it again I will poke your eye out".The next day,thats what happened.My son got in trouble,we were called in and I said "i TOLD HIM TO DO THAT".
The bottom line,the kid and my son became best friends.We had him over to the house many times for sleepovers and even took him on vacation with us.Why?Because the only thing people respect is violence and hostility.Killing yourself is not the answer,killing them or letting them know your willing to kill them is the answer.
Yes your son was bullied by ONE kid. This girl was being bullied by 10. How do you know she did not try to stand up for herself? The kids are up for rape charges as well. Being raped probably reduced her selfesteem greatly. You can't blame her. These kids should be fucking castrated and hug from the nearest tree. If I was her father that would be my mission.
Are you seriously not looking for revenge with these scum??
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Hmm, not sure how I feel about this one
Of course kids shouldn't bully but i think the school is at a lot of fault for not stepping in before now. No child should go through school getting made fun of constantly. But where do you draw the line? I mean a lot of it is how that person takes it. I was made fun of in school, I think a lot of people were. If a person told another person to "go take a long walk on a short bridge" and they did, and drowned, should the person that told them to do that be charged with "violation of civil rights with bodily injury resulting" and get 10 years in prison?
I'm not sure who i think is more at fault, the school or the kids, I mean the school let it go on for 3 months! I wonder if the girl complained to the school but they ignored her. If so, nobody working at the school is getting charged.
Lot of grey area in this one.
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You would be the first one on here to be prosecuted.Just because you put a smiley stickey after an insult its still an insult and an attempt to bully.
:o Wow! Do you really believe that?
The difference is,here we dont kill ourselves,here we might kill you for doing it.
You might want to re-phrase that somewhat.
Any reasonable person or law enforcement officer could reasonably interpret that as uttering a death threat.
This girl was a gutless coward.My son was getting bullied when he was 7 years old by a kid in school.I spoke to the teacher and told her to keep the kid away from my son,nothing.I spoke to the principal,nothing.So finally I told my son "if he does it again,pull out your pencil and try to stick it in his arm and tell him if you do it again I will poke your eye out".The next day,thats what happened.My son got in trouble,we were called in and I said "i TOLD HIM TO DO THAT".
The bottom line,the kid and my son became best friends.We had him over to the house many times for sleepovers and even took him on vacation with us.Why?Because the only thing people respect is violence and hostility.Killing yourself is not the answer,killing them or letting them know your willing to kill them is the answer.
If that's what you believe then I think you need to surround yourself with a much better class of people.
It sucks that neither the teacher nor the principal were able to affect a positive outcome, but I think there were still steps you could have taken before advocating your son resort to violence. Seriously, advocating killing and death threats to settle disputes among 7 yr olds? ::)
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:o Wow! Do you really believe that?
You might want to re-phrase that somewhat.
Any reasonable person or law enforcement officer could reasonably interpret that as uttering a death threat.
If that's what you believe then I think you need to surround yourself with a much better class of people.
It sucks that neither the teacher nor the principal were able to affect a positive outcome, but I think there were still steps you could have taken before advocating your son resort to violence. Seriously, advocating killing and death threats to settle disputes among 7 yr olds? ::)
You really are a fucking tool.I said people on here would kill you for attempting to bully us.Bring that to any police officer and ask "if I try to physically intimidate or threaten someone[like you just did]is it against the law for the person to respond using the same rhetoric".READ THE FUCKING POST DYKE!!
You deal with bullies one way,by FORCE!!!Everyone on earth knows that.Everyone knows the old line"stand up to a bully,you wont be bullied again".If this girl ,who was popular among football players,had got together with them,grabbed one of these bullies and stuck a knife up to their throat and said "if you bother me again I will gut you and your family will be next",it would have stopped.
Instead she took the liberal way out and tried to depend on teachers and school administrators who did NOTHING ,as they always do, and now she is gone.
After my son threatened the kid who bullied him,we were called in and I told the principal "I told him to do it".She said "we dont handle things like that in that way.He should have spoken to the boy and explained to him , when you call me names you hurt my feelings".This is the sage advise we got.I looked at her and asked "what universe are you from.If he would do that he would be picked on the rest of his life".You libs ALWAYS want to reason with the enemy,the enemy understands force and violence.You can hold hands if you want and end up like that girl.
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You really are a fucking tool.I said people on here would kill you for attempting to bully us.Bring that to any police officer and ask "if I try to physically intimidate or threaten someone[like you just did]is it against the law for the person to respond using the same rhetoric".READ THE FUCKING POST DYKE!!
You deal with bullies one way,by FORCE!!!Everyone on earth knows that.Everyone knows the old line"stand up to a bully,you wont be bullied again".If this girl ,who was popular among football players,had got together with them,grabbed one of these bullies and stuck a knife up to their throat and said "if you bother me again I will gut you and your family will be next",it would have stopped.
Instead she took the liberal way out and tried to depend on teachers and school administrators who did NOTHING ,as they always do, and now she is gone.
After my son threatened the kid who bullied him,we were called in and I told the principal "I told him to do it".She said "we dont handle things like that in that way.He should have spoken to the boy and explained to him , when you call me names you hurt my feelings".This is the sage advise we got.I looked at her and asked "what universe are you from.If he would do that he would be picked on the rest of his life".You libs ALWAYS want to reason with the enemy,the enemy understands force and violence.You can hold hands if you want and end up like that girl.
Thats funny, why dont the libs want to reason with the militias?
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I support this.
I also support putting that dumb bitch of a mother in jail that posed as a teenage boy on MySpace (or whatever) and bullied that other teenage girl into killing herself.
I don`t support this at all.
Police are allowed to pose as underage prostitutes and then arrest without a real crime ever have taken place other than insinuation. Now, one of those who happened to be coaxed could be driven to kill themselves as a result of the potential humiliation of a trial and everything that goes with being a registered sex offender, and NOTHING would happen to the police department or the officer who directly contributed to the suicide.
I find it appalling that someone can be charged for supposedly causing a suicide indirectly. Usually people who are suicidal show signs throughout their lives and its just a matter of when they decide to do it. All they need is an excuse.
Not that this is the case in the above story of course. The above story is highly lacking in facts and I would like to know more background than what the shoddy reporting has thus far shown.
Words do matter, but criminalizing them is certainly wrong.
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I don`t support this at all.
Police are allowed to pose as underage prostitutes and then arrest without a real crime ever have taken place other than insinuation. Now, one of those who happened to be coaxed could be driven to kill themselves as a result of the potential humiliation of a trial and everything that goes with being a registered sex offender, and NOTHING would happen to the police department or the officer who directly contributed to the suicide.
will you be on an upcoming episode of Dateline, adonis?
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will you be on an upcoming episode of Dateline, adonis?
To Catch a Predator should be yanked off the air for drumming up and creating false hysteria.
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To Catch a Predator should be yanked off the air for drumming up and creating false hysteria.
You need to talk to your boyfriend TA since he often talks about doing very nasty things, illegal and lude things, to little children. He is by all means a pervert and soon-to-be pedophile if one is to sincerely believe some of his posts.
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To Catch a Predator should be yanked off the air for drumming up and creating false hysteria.
I agree.I don't like police creating a crime or a grey area where a crime is instigated.Its the same way with urine testing athletes.You don't investigate someone when no crime has been committed or have a shred of evidence to say any crime was committed.
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To Catch a Predator should be yanked off the air for drumming up and creating false hysteria.
I applaud them for helping put child predators behind bars.
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You really are a fucking tool.I said people on here would kill you for attempting to bully us.Bring that to any police officer and ask "if I try to physically intimidate or threaten someone[like you just did]is it against the law for the person to respond using the same rhetoric".READ THE FUCKING POST DYKE!!
Seriously... you think I just tried to bully you? Wow. it's clear we're on 2 different levels. :-\
You deal with bullies one way,by FORCE!!!Everyone on earth knows that.Everyone knows the old line"stand up to a bully,you wont be bullied again".If this girl ,who was popular among football players,had got together with them,grabbed one of these bullies and stuck a knife up to their throat and said "if you bother me again I will gut you and your family will be next",it would have stopped.
Instead she took the liberal way out and tried to depend on teachers and school administrators who did NOTHING ,as they always do, and now she is gone.
After my son threatened the kid who bullied him,we were called in and I told the principal "I told him to do it".She said "we dont handle things like that in that way.He should have spoken to the boy and explained to him , when you call me names you hurt my feelings".This is the sage advise we got.I looked at her and asked "what universe are you from.If he would do that he would be picked on the rest of his life".You libs ALWAYS want to reason with the enemy,the enemy understands force and violence.You can hold hands if you want and end up like that girl.
That advise is kind of laughable. i wasn't talking about getting all touchy feely and explaining it hurts his feelings. I was refering to YOU taking it a step further by having a decent, civilized talk with his parents... adults to adults. You could tell his father that as an adult, he's responsible for anything his son does, and if his son continued to harrass your son, you'd interpret it as HIM directly harassing your son. That's all that would have needed to be said. A guy your size... doesn't have to threaten... let his imagination run wild at the thought of Billy mimnaugh tap dancing on his ass. That would have been enough to make sure the kids Dad made his kid give your son a wide berth. Then if that didn't work... then you move on. I just think you jumped the gun a bit. These are 7 yr olds... not hardened criminal thugs...yet. Unless of course your son had a reputation as a wimp... and needed to establish his stones for all to see. :-\
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I applaud them for helping put child predators behind bars.
How are they child predators when the police are PRETENDING to be underage, some even pretending to be the opposite sex?
IF your wife or girlfriend, friend pretended one day to be underage and then you drove to meet her or him, do you really think you should be locked up as a result?
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Seriously... you think I just tried to bully you? Wow. it's clear we're on 2 different levels. :-\
That advise is kind of laughable. i wasn't talking about getting all touchy feely and explaining it hurts his feelings. I was refering to YOU taking it a step further by having a decent, civilized talk with his parents... adults to adults. You could tell his father that as an adult, he's responsible for anything his son does, and if his son continued to harrass your son, you'd interpret it as HIM directly harassing your son. That's all that would have needed to be said. A guy your size... doesn't have to threaten... let his imagination run wild at the thought of Billy mimnaugh tap dancing on his ass. That would have been enough to make sure the kids Dad made his kid give your son a wide berth. Then if that didn't work... then you move on. I just think you jumped the gun a bit. These are 7 yr olds... not hardened criminal thugs...yet. Unless of course your son had a reputation as a wimp... and needed to establish his stones for all to see. :-\
Where do you live?I was in Norwalk CT.This kid was black,he had no father and was being raised by his grandmother.The kid is a good fucking dude,he just didnt know what to do with his anger.We love that kid to death,the way my son handled it made him a friend for life.They talk almost everyday even after we moved away and play online together and he may come out to spend a week with us in the summer.Like I said,bullies respect ONE THING strength!!!Not reasoning,not making friends,not understanding,they respect might and power.
Now,my son is and was small so Im sure the kid thought he was a pushover.He is a freshman now and only stands 5'5 and weighs 155lbs.However,he can bench 245,squat 335 and deadlift 375[only in a small belt] so Im not sure if there are many that think he is a wimp as he is stronger then any freshman in the school and pound for pound in probably the strongest in the school.
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Damn, i'm sure your kid runs around:
"My dad can KTFO your dad" ;D
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Where do you live?I was in Norwalk CT.This kid was black,he had no father and was being raised by his grandmother.The kid is a good fucking dude,he just didnt know what to do with his anger.We love that kid to death,the way my son handled it made him a friend for life.They talk almost everyday even after we moved away and play online together and he may come out to spend a week with us in the summer.Like I said,bullies respect ONE THING strength!!!Not reasoning,not making friends,not understanding,they respect might and power.
I live in Toronto Canada. not sure what his ethnicity has to do with anything, ...but if there was no father there, I guess that was a route you were unable to take. i'm glad everything worked out for your son. it could've been worse.
Now,my son is and was small so Im sure the kid thought he was a pushover.He is a freshman now and only stands 5'5 and weighs 155lbs.However,he can bench 245,squat 335 and deadlift 375[only in a small belt] so Im not sure if there are many that think he is a wimp as he is stronger then any freshman in the school and pound for pound in probably the strongest in the school.
I'm not talking about NOW, ...I'm talking about when he was 7. i guess he needed to establish his stones.
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Where do you live?I was in Norwalk CT.This kid was black,he had no father and was being raised by his grandmother.The kid is a good fucking dude,he just didnt know what to do with his anger.We love that kid to death,the way my son handled it made him a friend for life.They talk almost everyday even after we moved away and play online together and he may come out to spend a week with us in the summer.Like I said,bullies respect ONE THING strength!!!Not reasoning,not making friends,not understanding,they respect might and power.
Now,my son is and was small so Im sure the kid thought he was a pushover.He is a freshman now and only stands 5'5 and weighs 155lbs.However,he can bench 245,squat 335 and deadlift 375[only in a small belt] so Im not sure if there are many that think he is a wimp as he is stronger then any freshman in the school and pound for pound in probably the strongest in the school.
Hey dickhead beautiful story of your son's befriending of a negro. Thanks. But here we have a beautiful irish girl bullied and raped to the point where she took her own life. By a bunch of inbred, ignorant fucking American kids. I want to see what these mongrels look like. She was a girl for crying out loud and had told her friends she could not fight she did not know how to do it.
I do blame her parents for not yanking her out of that school ASAP before the shit got out of hand like that. But those kids - when I see them pleading not guilty I am thinking they should increase the penalty to death by castration or something similar.