Phoebe Prince had no safe place to go at South Hadley High School.
Court paperwork reveals that the 15-year-old freshman suffered harassment in the hallways, the library, the classrooms, the lunchroom and even the bathroom.
According to witnesses, the bullies hissed curse words, yelled obscenities and threatened to beat her up, sometimes within earshot of school faculty.
The taunting stemmed from teenage jealousy. According to the documents, Phoebe briefly dated a popular older football player at the school, Sean Mulveyhill, who is now facing charges in the case, including statutory rape.
Is “had sex with” the translation of “briefly dated” Sean Mulveyhill?
Why would they bully a chick that was putting out?
Stupid.
Excerpt:
The documents do not reveal the official to whom Prince spoke or provide details of the conversation.
A witness who was interviewed by investigators said Prince had gone to administrators because she was “scared and wanted to go home.” After the meeting, the witness said Prince returned to class, and said that no action was going to be taken and that “she was still going to get beat up.”
In a recent interview, Superintendent Gus Sayer said school administrators were not aware of the bullying until Jan. 7, a week before Prince committed suicide. On that day, two teachers reported separate bullying incidents to the principal, Sayer said.
She was the WRONG color.
We had bullies when I was in school but the little bastards have gone well beyond bullying these days. The indifference to it is amazing.
Greta had a story about another case where a girl was stomped and kicked into a coma in front of hundreds of other kids.
What a beautiful young lady! I still grieve over what and why this happened, ever since I first heard of this! She was bullied and the school officials did nothing productive to help her!
Hadley is jammed between two of the most rabidly liberal towns in the U.S., Amherst and Northampton. I would be willing to bet that not only was this girl the “wrong” color for the school to care about her, but her tormentors were the “wrong” color for the school to be willing to take action against them, most likely Puerto Ricans.
I don’t understand how a parent could continue to send their child back into that environment. More important things to do?
This story has people in the MA area and waaaay beyond RAGING against these bullies.
I would not want to be one or be associated with any of them at this moment.
The cowards didn’t even have the balls to show up at their arraignments this week.
The so called ‘faculty’ should be next.
I know im probably going to get flamed for this, but are we now in a position where kids face charges for being “mean” to someone else? I certainly dont condone bullying, but could there also have been underlying issues that caused this young lady to commit suicide? Maybe she was having a difficult time adjusting culturally. Maybe she was depressed because she apparently had sex with two of the boys now charged, could she have taken her own life because of the end of the relationship? I would hate to see us head down a road, where people face criminal charges because they werent “nice” to another child.
I don’t know anything about the area where this school is located, but from these six pictures, those accused of the bullying seem to be five Irish, or other white ethnic group and one with a Latino name. Photos included:
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/court_documents_phoebe_prince.html
And Sean Mulveyhill, the boy she briefly dated, also definitely sounds Irish. Sounds like mostly Irish participants with one exception.
"School administrators" don't care. They never have.