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SUICIDE IN SOUTH HADLEY BULLIED TO DEATH?
By Liz McNeil
Phoebe Prince Had Favor, Have a feeling and Big Thoughts. but Connections Say Plain Taunting-and Venomous Smears on Facebook-by Selected Girls at Her Massachusetts Arrogant Academy Led Phoebe to Murder Herself at 15
She picked out a black glass of something costume for the chain dance-one with spaghetti straps and twinkle, lengthways with sparkly red shoes that reminded her of Dorothy's in The Wizard of Oz. A week beforehand South Hadley High's cotillion, Phoebe Prince texted her friend Meghan Kennedy, vivacious with high spirits. "She understood, 'I can't stay to velocity approaching in this,'" Meghan, 15, recalls. "She was so trembling." Numerous time past on Jan. 14, the 15-year-old was dead-found flaccid in her niche by her trivial sister. "Someone was just bowled over," Meghan says. "I can't horizontal explain the upheaval."
So why did the beautiful girl, a eleventh-hour set from Ireland who read Dante and dreamed of becoming a announcer, undertake the final self-destructive act? Connections say mean girls collect her to it-that Phoebe was remorseless bullied in the classroom and online, everyplace she was the want of exploit and smears called out in the hallways and posted on Facebook. "Go kill yourself," students taunted. Academy region manager Gus Sayer confirms Phoebe was the swindle of verbal and cyberbullying "intentional to strike her" but says she didn't bank account the usage. Moment legalize marks an investigation-criminal charges are once in a while brought in hounding cases-school administrators say they clutch hovering various students, who now await a retaliatory test and can region expatriation. The chain has alike formed an antibullying workforce require. "Oppression is not tolerated at this chain," Sayer says. Too trivial, too late, according to some parents who moan the 760-student regular chain has turned a blind eye to abusive usage by students for years. "The bullies clutch gotten shown with it," says Lisa Brouillard, 44, who says her young woman Becky, 17, was confused into a closet and punched by one of Phoebe's tormentors a few time one time her passing. David Leonard, 53, says his young woman Nicole, 18, dropped out of South Hadley Arrogant hug engagement since of stable pointed by patent students. "It was annoy," Leonard says. "Since happened to Phoebe-that can clutch been my young woman." Says Sayer: "Masses times feel sorry for yourself clutch been logical for hounding. We carry this a very omnipresent problem."
For Phoebe-according to various close friends, some of whom declined to be named for fear of retribution-the problems began hug fall, snappishly one time she stirred from Area Clare, Ireland, with her close relative, Anne, a professor, and sister Lauren, 12, to South Hadley, a New England town of 17,000 that's home to Arise Holyoke Association and a mix of upscale and working-class families.
Reheat and outgoing, Phoebe before long attracted respect. "All the guys refreshing to talk to her," says a friend. "But a lot of girls were jealous." At the rear she shortly antiquated a football player who was neurosis with separate girl, female students started job her "Irish whore," friends say; some posted slanderous messages on their Facebook pages. Steward Sayer says the school's investigation shows the smears were "anyplace she turned. She kept bumping into definite feel sorry for yourself, and they insulted her."
The singling out took a regard, and having the status of she effectiveness not clutch uncongenially reported it, friends say Phoebe not well kept it a secret. Naturally bright but an inured to learner, she'd specifically been pinto impartial class, iPod in exceed, sobbing. "A few times my teacher would talk to her and try to help," one learner says. Choice learner tried to pick a arm one time job her a "ho. Phoebe would tell me how frightened she was," Meghan says. "She wasn't a quick-witted girl." A few time beforehand her passing, friend Attain Shenas, 15, recalls, "she wasn't herself. She understood it was too further to deal with."
Routinely Phoebe had supplementary concerns. Always close to her get going, Jeremy, a gardener, she was having a immoral time adjusting to life without him-accounts breadth as to why her parents were no longer vivacious together-after shipping to the rented top floor of a two-story structure in South Hadley. "She would talk about how further she missed her dad," Attain says; one friend described her as panic-stricken over the division. Says a family friend in Ireland: "She was having ups and downs, but secret message to the paramount."
Or so any person thought-until Jan. 14, the same as taking into account again, friends say, Phoebe suffered a volley of exploit, horizontal on her way home. That afternoon she plugged her call up into the wall-perhaps to show the world the copy messages that had terrorized her. Kevin Miele, who operates an auto-detailing shop impending access, watched a dozen legalize cars appeal up to the structure. "It was horrible," he says. "The close relative was over the top." Anne and Jeremy Prince clutch declined to speak publicly. But beforehand passing Ireland to join his family, Jeremy confided to a friend his desire that some "good can come of this, that Phoebe's passing can clutch some meaning." That remained to be seen on Jan. 18, as family and friends poured into Beers and Narration Interment Villa in South Hadley to pay their greetings and clutch one hug look at a young girl with so further promise-wearing a black party costume that would never see a dance
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IS YOUR KID Get-up-and-go BULLIED?
The hounding Phoebe Prince endured is all too shared. According to the Nationally Teen Rudeness Exclusion Resource Vile, well-nigh 30 percent of students in grades 6 timetabled 10 clutch able hounding, and these time further of it is happening online. Off of chain arrive, cyberbullies are harder to partition and mollify. So what's a anxious parent to do? Pause tuned in, says Mayo Hospice teen psychologist Dr. Bridget Biggs. "Freshen for changes. Do they stare disconsolate having the status of they're online or petite not want go to school?" Outstanding all, Biggs says, "Channel. You never caution the same as your teen may need to talk." http://www.safeyouth.org/ or http://www.isafe.org/
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