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« Reply #20 on: April 09, 2010, 10:13:00 PM »

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Terrified-Phoebe-Prince-sent-frantic-text-messages-on-last-afternoon-alive-90372964.html
Terrified Phoebe Prince sent frantic text messages on last afternoon alive
Final text sent just two hours before she died

April 9, 2010


Phoebe Prince: Irish student sent frantic text messages saying she was distraught by bullying

he heartbreaking final hours of teenager Phoebe Prince's life are slowly being revealed through court documents.

On what would be her final afternoon, the 15-year-old Irish student sent frantic text messages to a school friend saying she was distraught over the bullying.

Her last text was sent at 2.48 p.m. on January 14. She also received another two messages which she never opened.

Two hours later she was dead.

She had hanged herself in her family's apartment with the scarf her sister had given her for Christmas.

The day before she died, Phoebe had confided in a friend that school was intolerable.

She said the teenagers who were tormenting her were making her life a misery.

The friends have told investigators that Phoebe was concerned for her safety.

They said Phoebe had confide that she was "not a tough girl" and "would not know how to fight."

She was so scared of the teens that she asked friends to surround her for protection when she walked between classes.

The case is also revealing the nightmare side of American high school.

Phoebe, who only started in South Hadley High School on September 1, was picked on by the gang after she briefly dated the two seniors who have been charged in the case.

She dated Sean Mulveyhill, 17, for a spell but in December they broke up and he went back to former girlfriend Kayla Narey, 17.

Ashley Longe, 16, was close friends with Mulveyhill and also was friendly with Narey.

In December, Phoebe then dated Austin Renaud, 18, who was also involved with Flannery Mullins, 16. Mullins and Sharon Chanon Velazquez, 16, were also friends.

Phoebe's friends say the girls initially ganged up on her because they claimed Phoebe was "taking away" other girls' boyfriends.

Now, Longe, Mullins and Velazquez have been charged as juveniles with felonies including violation of civil rights.

Two also have been charged with stalking.

Mulveyhill, Narey, and Renaud have been charged as adults.

The two male students are charged with statutory rape.
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« Reply #21 on: April 09, 2010, 10:16:59 PM »

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/04/gov_patrick_fau.html
Governor faults S. Hadley officials in Phoebe Prince bullying case
April 9, 2010


Phoebe Prince was allegedly bullied relentlessly before she committed suicide in January.

Governor Deval Patrick said this morning that South Hadley school officials should be "held accountable" for their handling of the bullying that preceded Phoebe Prince's suicide, describing reports that Prince had personally turned to administrators for help as "outrageous."

"I'm telling you, this is outrageous, what you and I and others are reading and hearing about this," Patrick said in a radio interview on WTKK-FM. "The more we hear, the worse it sounds."

Patrick discussed the Prince case on his monthly appearance on the "Ask the Governor" segment of the Jim and Margery Show. The Prince case has captured international attention and sparked intense criticism of school officials for not doing more to protect the 15-year-old freshman, who committed suicide Jan. 14.

Host Jim Braude introduced the topic by mentioning a story in today's Globe that reported Prince's appeal to administrators and detailed the alleged harassment she endured at the hands of two groups of teenagers angry over her relationships with two older male students.

Braude said he believed school officials displayed a "callous disregard" and asked Patrick if he was troubled that they haven't been charged criminally.

"They should certainly be held accountable," Patrick said, later adding that "it's incredibly upsetting to me that the adults don't seem to have acted like adults."

But Patrick said parents and other adults must also play a role in preventing bullying. Citing his support for anti-bullying legislation, he cautioned that it is "not a substitute for adults acting like adults."

"That is the parents of the bully, it's other adults in the school, it's adults in the community," he said. "All of us have a responsibility to step up and deal with this."

Patrick described his childhood in Chicago as an example, saying children were under close watch from parents and neighbors alike.

"There was all kinds of things we didn't have, but one thing we had was a very strong sense of community," he said. "That was a time when every child was under the jurisdiction of every single adult on the block. So if you messed up down the street in front of Ms. Jones, she would straighten you out as if you were hers, then call home so you got it two times."

"There's something about that responsibility that adults took for all the children that we've got to recapture not just in South Hadley, but all across the Commonwealth," he said.
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« Reply #22 on: May 13, 2010, 06:56:03 PM »

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20004060-504083.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody
Cyber Bullying Illegal: Mass. Governor Signs Landmark Anti-Bullying Law
May 4, 2010

BOSTON (CBS/AP) The governor of Massachusetts has signed a bill designed to crack down on school bullies and require teachers to report bullying to principals.

Gov. Deval Patrick signed the bill Monday. It had been passed after the suicides of two students who were said to be victims of intense harassment.

Phoebe Prince (Personal Photo)


Carl Walker-Hoover (CBS)
Sirdeaner Walker, of Springfield, called the bill a watershed moment. Her 11-year-old son, Carl Walker-Hoover, hanged himself at home last year. Walker said he had been tormented by classmates.

Carl Walker-Hoover (CBS)
In January, 15-year-old Phoebe Prince killed herself after allegedly being bullied at South Hadley High School. Several classmates have pleaded not guilty after being charged with various crimes in connection with her death.

The new law prohibits bullying on school property and outlaws cyberbullying.
The Department of Education reports that 25 percent of American students say they were bullied at least once a day. States have tried to address the issue by mandating their school districts adopt anti-bullying initiatives, CBS News correspondent Bianca Solorzano reported in a story featuring Sirdeaner Walker last month.

CBS News has identified 10 other students ages 13 to as young as nine years old who were bullied and committed suicide in the last 12 months. Suicide is so rare among children that young the CDC doesn't even consistently track the numbers.

Yale professor Young-Shin Kim has done research on what's been termed "bullycide" and has found that victims of bullying are 5.6 times more at risk of attempting or thinking about suicide.

"I want Carl's legacy to be not that he was 11 years old and he committed suicide," Walker said. "I want Carl's legacy to be we've enacted laws to protect and help all of our children."
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