Charges filed over Pheobe Prince suicide [irishecho.com]
- Published: 17 February 2011
Jim Smith March 31, 2010 BOSTON --- Nine teenagers are being criminally charged for their actions leading up to the suicide of 15-year-old Irish high school student Phoebe Prince. “It appears that Phoebe’s death on January 14 followed a torturous day for her, in which she was subjected to verbal harassment and threatened physical abuse,” said Northwestern District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel at a press conference Monday following completion of her ten week probe into allegations that Prince was bullied for months by a group of students at South Hadley High School in western Massachusetts.
“The investigation revealed relentless activities directed toward Phoebe to make it impossible for her to stay at school,” Scheibel said. “The bullying for her was intolerable.”
Scheibel also revealed that some of the bullying had occurred in front of school staff, who did virtually nothing to stop it. She said that Prince’s mother had spoken to at least two staff members about the bullying, to no avail.
Although she concluded that the inactions of the staff did not rise to the level of criminal conduct, Scheibel called their behavior “troublesome.”
Three of the accused teens are unnamed because of their age. The six who are named include Sean Mulveyhill and Kayla Narey, who are charged with violation of civil rights with bodily injury resulting, criminal harassment, and disturbance of a school assembly. Mulveyhill and another boy, Austin Renaud, are also charged with statutory rape, the circumstances of which Scheibel declined to discuss.
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