South Hadley, Massachusetts is the nice, comfortable middle-class suburb where Phoebe Prince was driven to commit suicide after constant taunting, bullying and intimidation from a clique known as the “Mean Girls of South Hadley.” Nine teenagers are indicted by Elizabeth Scheibel, Massachusetts District Attorney, for some actions that are believed to be the reason why Price committed eventual suicide. In addition to the teenagers directly involved, it has been reported by various sources that many students and at least one school faculty member at South Hadley High School saw what the Mean Girls of Hadley did to Phoebe Prince. According to Dscriber, the events “went unreported to school administrators until after Phoebe’s death.”
Phoebe Prince was only 15 years old
She had settled in a cozy Massachusetts town from Ireland. Apparently, Prince had never faced anything like the scathing brand of bullying the Mean Girls of South Hadley had to offer bullying. The fact that Phoebe Prince was pretty started getting the attention of the clique but her dating life of dating the senior football player when she was a freshman was too much for them to ignore. She was always being “put in her place” by the clique when others saw and did nothing. The Mean Girls of South Hadley were able to enjoy more freedom than the less popular bullies because of their popularity.
Some charges against accomplices and Mean Girls of South Hadley.
This is what we know, per Dscriber:
- Sean Mulveyhill, 17 – statutory rape, violation of civil rights, criminal harassment, disturbance of a school assembly
- Austin Renaud, 18 – statutory rape
- Kayla Narey, 17 – violation of civil rights, criminal harassment, disturbance of a school assembly
- Ashley Longe, 16 – violation of civil rights, as a youthful offender
- Flannery Mullins, 16 – violation of civil rights as a youthful offender, stalking as a youthful offender
- Sharon Chanon Velazquez, 16 – violation of civil rights as a youthful offender, stalking as a youthful offender
- Three juveniles, all females from South Hadley, charged as juveniles (names not released)
As far as we know, no South Hadley School officials are being charged yet.
