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 dubbed the “Mean Girls of South Hadley.” Nine teenagers have been indicted by Elizabeth Scheibel, Massachusetts District Attorney, for many actions that are believed to be the reason why Price committed eventual suicide. It was reported that multiple students and at least one school faculty member of South Hadley High School saw what the Mean Girls of Hadley did to Phoebe Prince. Dscriber said the events “went unreported to school administrators until after Phoebe’s death.”
Prince was 15 years old
She’d moved from Ireland to her family’s home in the cozy Massachusetts town. Apparently, Prince had never faced anything like the scathing brand of bullying the Mean Girls of South Hadley had to offer bullying. The clique first was interested when they noticed Prince was pretty but finally gave in when they saw she was dating the senior football player while she was a freshman. She was constantly “put in her place” by the bullies, when others looked on and did nothing. Because of their popularity, the Mean Girls of Hadley had more freedom in what they could do than the less popular bullies.
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.
