Last fall 15-year-old Phoebe Prince moved to America from Ireland
with her family, and entered South Hadley High School as a freshman.
Before long, she had a brief romance with a popular football player (a
senior). This allegedly incensed a clique of "popular" students called
the Mean Girls, who stalked her, knocked her books out of her hands,
sent her incessant text messages, and constantly called Prince an "Irish
slut."
According
to the Times, an investigation "found that on January 14th students
abused her in the school library, the lunchroom and the hallways and
threw a canned drink at her as she walked home." Her 12-year-old sister
found Phoebe hanging from a stairwell at home, still in her school
clothes, at 4:30 p.m. Her tormentors then mocked her death on Facebook,
and after one student told a local TV station that "bullies were
stalking the corridors of South Hadley High," one of the Mean Girls
punched her in the head, the
Boston Globe reports.
Three of the students charged are 16-year-olds who will face
prosecution as “youthful offenders” in adult court; another three are
old enough to be tried as adults. (Six of them are
identified here.) Three younger girls have been charged in juvenile
court. The indictments come as the Massachusetts legislature is working
on a new anti-bullying law that would require school employees to
report suspected incidents and principals to investigate them.
The law would not label bullying a crime, which some say
is a good thing. "These indictments tell us that middle school and high
school kids are not immune from criminal laws," says
Robert O. Trestan, Eastern States Civil Rights Counsel of the
Anti-Defamation League. "If they violate them in the course of bullying
someone, they’ll be held accountable. We don’t need to create a new
crime." On Long Island, police
are investigating what role cyberbullying played in the suicide of a
17-year-old girl on Sunday.
It is absolutely disgusting !
Words can honestly not describe how disgusted I am by all of there reports in each blog. It's pathetic to say the least. I am absolutely speechless.
The crimes committed by these animals, are robbing humanity of it's true intellect and wisdom. Because we are governed in a world ruled by absolute stupid people, these crimes will continue to increase and never show promise to cease. People have to muster their courage and speak up, far too many need to cast aside what others would think of them. Who can a student turn to for bullying when (as seen in alot of cases) Teachers are bullies themselves? Bullycide, in all it's wretched, twisted, unforgiving glory needs to be marked as an act of a true law-crime. How many more innocent lives must be lost to satisfy the egos of the animal lot disguised within humanity? How many more lives must be lost before the Law sees bullying for what it is? It's not the damned back in the day 'oh you were either a bully, a victim, or a toad', it's not that bullshit anymore and these ignorant adults need to stop giving themselves anal with their damned skulls and get their heads out of their ass. Otherwise...well, I've already felt more than my share of despair from the stories and innocent lives I learn that are lost that did not have to end in such a cruel fate..