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Phoebe Prince Tragedy: Who's to Blame for Suicide?

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Phoebe Prince has shed light on the dangers of teen bullying, after the 15-year-old hanged herself in January. But was bullying really what caused the tragedy? A recently article on Slate.com questions the original story surrounding her death, which is that Phoebe's peers bullied her and called her an "Irish slut." The Slate.com story asserts that she was "was deeply troubled long before she ever met the six defendants" in the case, and that she started cutting herself in 2008, long before...Read Full Story

Phoebe Prince Suicide Spurs Legislation Efforts

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School bullying has been a wide-spread epidemic for some time, but it didn't become a household knowledge until recently -- and most specifically, when Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old, took her own life after enduring online hate crime. In January of 2010, Phoebe hung herself -- at the time, she was a student at South Hadley High School in Massachusetts. Before her suicide, The New England Anti-Defamation League has been urging Massachusetts officials to consider addressing school bullying in...Read Full Story

South Hadley paid Phoebe Prince family $225000 to avoid lawsuit over bullying – Boston.com

By kiraniqra57 on  From ikononlinejobs.com
Slate Magazine South Hadley paid Phoebe Prince family $225000 to avoid lawsuit over bullying Boston.com By Maria Cramer, Globe Staff The family of Phoebe Prince, the South Hadley teenager who took her own life after being relentlessly bullied, received $225000 from the girl's school district, according to a copy of the settlement. … South Hadley releases Phoebe Prince settlement MassLive.com Suit in Mass Visit link: South Hadley paid Phoebe Prince family $225000 to avoid lawsuit over...Read Full Story

Phoebe Prince

By malangpatbelas on  From thelegendarygibsonlespaul.blogspot.com
In a complicated court case with no happy ending, two teenagers Wednesday were placed on probation after admitting they harassed a classmate who later killed herself. The unprecedented case against 15-year-old Phoebe Prince's alleged tormentors focused the country's attention on the problem of school bullying. Prosecutors Wednesday dropped the most serious charges in the case, but said they had nonetheless sent a message that "bullying and harassment will not be tolerated in our schools...Read Full Story

US student in alleged gay webcam bullying commits suicide

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Two undergraduates at a US university have been arrested after a fellow student they allegedly filmed and broadcast over the Internet during a gay encounter leapt to his death from a New York bridge. The tragedy appeared to be the latest in a growing trend of sophisticated technology and social networking sites being used to give old-fashioned bullying -- especially of homosexual youngsters -- a vicious new twist. Two students at Rutgers University in New Jersey had "been arrested and charged...Read Full Story
What really happened to Phoebe Prince? This is how it essentially ended, but you should read the other story first. It is definitely one of those cautionary tales about anti-bullying efforts and prosecutions and trying to figure out how to...  
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Anne O’Brien and Jeremy Prince, Phoebe’s parents, collected $225,000 on the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination complaint they filed against the town of South Hadley and certain town officials after the parties agreed to settle the matter out of court.  
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Anne O'Brien and Jeremy Prince, Phoebe's parents, filed a claim with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, alleging that the town and some school employees failed to protect their daughter from sexual harassment.  
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From AP: A lawsuit brought by the parents of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old Irish immigrant in Massachusetts who committed suicide after relentless bullying, was settled for $225,000, according to documents made public Tuesday. The settlement with the town of South...  
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A Massachusetts judge has ruled that journalist Emily Bazelon, the Connecticut based reporter who wrote a controversial article in Slate in 2010 that appeared to suggest peer antagonism toward young suicide victim Phoebe Prince may have had some ...  
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The family of Phoebe Prince, the Irish teenager who committed suicide after a prolonged campaign of bullying, received $225,000 in a settlement from the town of South Hadley in Boston, after they agreed not to sue the girl’s school district ...  
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MassLive.comTown paid $225g to avoid Phoebe Prince suitBoston HeraldBy O'Ryan Johnson Civil-liberty lawyers have forced the town of South Hadley to reveal it coughed up $225000 to squash a discrimination suit brought by the parents of Phoebe Prince, the Irish girl who hanged herself after months of bullying. ...South Hadley paid Phoebe Prince family $225000 to avoid lawsuit over bullyingBoston.comall 202 news articles »  
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A lawsuit filed in connection with the 2010 suicide of South Hadley High School freshman Phoebe Prince resulted in the payment of $225,000 to her parents. The Prince family had filed suit against the town and the School Department after their daughter hanged herself following weeks of bullying by high school classmates. The documents were released Tuesday by Slate reporter Emily Bazelon, who covered the case and later sued seeking information...  
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Judge Mary-Lou Rup said Bazelon had demonstrated the public's right to know and that the town has failed to demonstrate any possible harm in disclosing the information.  
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Parents of bullied schoolgirl Phoebe Prince who killed herself get $225,000 from school district Phoebe Prince taunted by classmates in Massachusetts She had dated popular boy at school in South Hadley She was taunted by students after they split  
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