Probation For Teens In Phoebe Prince Bullying Case

May 4, 2011 11:12 AM

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NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — Two of the six teenagers charged in connection with the bullying related suicide of a Massachusetts high school freshman have been sentenced to a year of probation.

Sean Mulveyhill pleaded guilty to criminal harassment Wednesday in Franklin-Hampshire Juvenile Court.

Kayla Narey pleaded to sufficient facts to the same charge, acknowledging the state could win conviction at trial.

Both 18-year-olds were ordered to do 100 hours of community service to help at-risk children, complete their high school education, and were barred from profiting from their involvement in the Phoebe Prince case.

Prince, who moved to South Hadley from Ireland, hanged herself in January 2010 in her family’s apartment about 100 miles west of Boston.

Prosecutors say the 15-year-old had been relentlessly bullied at school.

Probation For Teens In Phoebe Prince Bullying Case

taxedout

Probation, Humm I’m Not surprised!!!! A real credit to any community, he’ll make a fine Dad some day!!!!
cannot believe

Glad to see progress being made – probation – what a pathetic joke and slap in the face to Prince’s family. This state is pathetic and I am sure being laughed at by the bullies.
cannot belive

How much more will this pathetic state further pass laws to make the victim’s suffereing that much more and put the VICTIMS thru more torment and suffereing then they have already endured from their attackers- please probation – all this did is further stick a knife into an already open & sore wound of Prince’s family and further dragged her family through the hearings for the one’s admitting GUILT in contributing to their daughter’s DEATH jsut to get a slap on the wrist
jbrown

giving them probation is as much of on extreme as the death penalty
ci64

only in Massachusetts!
rustyshackleford

crazyness. they throw a guy in jail for like 3 years for stealing a car, but these “children” bullied a girl so bad that she ended up taking her own life, and they get ZERO jail time. What a messed up justice system we have.
Mark

That will teach them and all the bullies elsewhere. What a farce, this state contains too many bleeding heart judges. Time to elect them instead of appointing them.
HooDatIS?

POOR PHOEBE
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emom

Thats right we reward out of control kids, Give into their whining, let them convince us the made a HUGE mistake, But did they forget they boasted about what they did..,. and yet we still allow them to get away with what they did… YEAH they were raised by the best,,,they didnt fall far from that tree did they… Bullies learn from other bullies,, most are raised to be bullies…..talk about a form of child abuse… Now a mother has to grieve knowing those punks get out of jail only to bully yet another day…. TO ALL THE KIDS THAT HAVE BEEN BULLIED TAKE NOTE OF THIS AND STAND UP TO THE PUNKS ,,,, DO NOT LET THEM THREATEN YOU AND BY ALL MEANS GO TO THE POLICE, report the bully to someone and do not let them win… Bullies are punks, and need to be taught a lesson.

Pepsy1959

Totally agreed. Go to the police and if they don’t do anything then with your parents start your own group of friends to protect each other. Stand up and be counted. Remember BULLIES and thier PARENTS need to know that you are not alone.

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katieann

These “kids” and their parents should be made to provide a significant amount of money to a scholarship in Phoebe’s name for a classmate that shows the tolerance, empathy and compassion that none of them had but that Phoebe did.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/05/05/3-more-teens-complete-plea-deals-in-phoebe-prince-bullying-case/ 3 More Teens Complete Plea Deals In Phoebe Prince Bullying Case « CBS Boston

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Tony

I don’t know how the poor girl’s father can sleep at night, thinking about how these miserable wretches can be walking the streets. I know one thing, her dad is a better man than me , Gunga Din.