Phoebe Prince: Facebook Bullying Behind Teen's Suicide

This is not new. Bullying has been around forever. However This Young Girl is From Ireland, and being New to American Culture would probably be difficult for any young person. Irish Culture is different. I know because I have many Family members who are from Ireland. Irish young people are more mature at 15. The society is different. The girls are raised to grow up a little bit faster than American Girls so I am not in the least bit surprised that Pheobe dated an older boy. In Europe, generally speeking the culture is way more touchie feelie, and could easily be miss inturperated as being "slutty" when in reality they are extramily freindly. I Know I am Irish. Also The Irish Girls are sensitive, in that they are not taught to speek up, for themselves as American Girls may. In fact if you ever go To Ireland, for instance when waiting in long lines for which most Americans would be in pationt and ask what the hold up is, an Irish Girl would tend to wait thier turn regardless of the situation. They are less likely to speek up. So again I am not at all surprised if it were the caes, which she kept allot of the awful bullying to herself. Having said that, it is appart to me that she was not adjusting to American Life very well. She probably missed all her Pals back home. It is such a shame that NOONE stepped in before this little girl snuffrd out her Life before it began. I hold The School souly responsable, for not making sure of her adjustment. Our Schools make all kinds of special provisions for the Mexican Imigrants, the Asians etc. But because this little Girl happened to be White and spoke the same lagueage everyone figures she thinks, feels acts as we do in America and this is just not so. If she had spoke another language I beleive she would have been "Notied" and more apt to have had a far supirior adjustment period. This world is far too Politically correct. We only "see" that which is on the "outside" Inside this Little innocent 15 year old girl was obviously dieing. The High school should be ashammed. As an American IRISH woman I am ashamed today! this never should have happened. I Hope that she did not have to Die in Vain. The Awful Girls should be held accountable, and should be sitting behind a few bars, along with that worthless High school staff. I went to thier worthless web sight not a single MENTION of her Life! Despicable sparaging poor excuse for a High School. Further more the Students should be taught about ALL cultures not just the Africa Americans and Mexicans BUT ALL CULTURES!! which includes IRISH since HALF of the names on that Staff I can see with my own eyes have ...surprise surprise IRISH names. I don't beleive the remarks on here about her being "weak" It must be very very difficult to come to a new COUNTRY LEGALLY I MIGHT ADD and BE TORMENTED for Being DIFFERENT!! what happened to the liberal tollerance for all?

How can one of the Master Race kill herself soo selfishly? it was not her place to decide her death and should have done so to prevent it

This is very disturbing, the story and some of the ignorant reactions here. There is a limit and it was crossed. Part of me would like to see them go through what WWII French collaborators were dealt - shave their heads in a public mob scene.There is something else here. So many think our kids are so sophisticated because they use technology so often. Chatting and texting does not equal technological sophistication. How about programming which depends on science and math? 90% of these kids couldn't program a spreadsheet to add 2+2 = 4. Perhaps if our kids were actually challenged in school they wouldn't have time to waste in all this social networking crap. How about face to face networking instead?

P.S. I would like to see these bullies be identified in their precious internet for life as being part of this awful event. Wherever they go, from college to work, they will be instantly recognized for life for this shameful behavior.

Mind you, I think the names, home addresses, current photos, license plate numbers, routes to school and any possible means of identifying them should be published in every newspaper and posted on billboards all over town, so that those little bitches can find out what it REALLY means to live in fear all the time.

Kayla Narey  Note.. not Laurie A. Narey
200 Lathrop St
South Hadley, MA 01075
413-536-0870 (CONFIRMED)

Flannery Mullins:
32 Searle Rd (Un-confirmed)
South Hadley, MA 01075-1749
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Shannon Charon:
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Ashley Longe:
77 Pine Grove Dr (CONFIRMED)
South Hadley, MA 01075-2192
413 533-4441 (CONFIRMED)

Grace Szydziak -
84 Bonner St
Chicopee, MA 01013
(413) 533-3765

Yawnnnn, i hope you know how stupid you look, im in highschool and i see people go through stuff like this everyday being "strong" has nothing to do with it what so ever! try being dropped in another place you arnt from and have no friends in and realized that its many girls against you and you have noone behind you if you possibly thought about the big picture you would think that this girl probably did try and stick up for herself and got out numbered and harrassed people can be very mean and if you were in highschool in massachusetts its probably one of the worst places to be but you wouldnt know the way girls are cuz you dont live here.. no matter whos boyfriend she hooked up with or what boy liked her or what boy she was texting.. NO ONE deserves to be so depressed alone hurt and unfairly treated to the pointt where they take there own life! smarten up before you open your mouth and say something horrible like that about this poor girl again.. rip phoebe

everyone should just stop getting angry over other people's opinions and adding fuel to the fire. yawnnnn has their own opinions and you have yours. and to the girls who bullied phoebe, i'm pretty sure there will be someone out there who will shove your head into a locker or throw energy drinks at you when you're walking home. hell, it might be even me who does it =D. its fair to say, i would if i lived in the area. on that note, there will always be bullies and there will always be prey for bullies. the more the years pass, new ideas of how to bully individuals will arise. is there a solution? of course, i just don't have any idea what the best solution for these situations would be. make a law out of it, laws are easily broken (i.e. drinking age, duis, possession of substance, etc.). so what would the best solution be for these situations of bullying?!

guys im not from this town, i don't know the girls or pheobe but isn't it ironic that you are all defending pheobe on the internet by maliciously attacking on the internet, the girls that bullied her on the internet?  i think that these groups that are being posted with thousands of people in them should be taken down because they are just reiterating the actions these girls took only they are keeping it on the web.  i am sure that people in the school are treating the girls differently after what they did but when you honestly think about all of this....we all bully...we have all done it at least once and you cannot deny it.  when you talk about someone behind his/her back, that is bullying.  when you pass on a rumour, that is bullying.  calling someone a name, that is bullying.  i believe that it is in our nature as humans.  the girls are obviously not getting off scott free but and im sure they may act like its not bothering them, but it is.  pheobe was in fact bullied to a high extant but i do see how "yawnn" is putting it.  there are people out there who are staying very strong when they may have had much worse things happen and they are still out there living and staying strong.  i believe that there is more than this bullying issue that made pheobe go as far as to kill herself.  and i have a question for all the several "friends" of pheobe....where were you when she was being bullied? why didnt you help her? if you want to insult my OPINION which i am entitled to and in fact insult me (be a bully) then honestly look around and stop being so strong to your view...open your eyes and actually think before you speak.  

I am really sorry about pheobes death, i heard about this from my sister. my sister told me what happend because earler in the week i told her about a girl that had said some really mean things to me and a few of my friends via facebook, then continued it at some thing my town calls freeskate, and then later brought it into school, and just like pheobes school, my school did nothing about it, they may have suspended her for 2 days but she still got to us from via text and via facebook. bullying has gone way to far with teens and it really needs to end because younge girls and boys are losing lives that havent even begun yet.

Those bullies are cowards and the most insecure of all.  They pick on someone vulnerable to bully so as to boost their pathetic egos.  And to those who have no sympathy whatsoever for this 15-year old girl who was bullied to the point that she took her own life, they are just as pathetic as the insecure bullies, if not more.  They are incapable of any sympathy because they are so bitter at life and their hearts, minds, and souls are devoid of any love.  So, they rejoice at their own cold-heartedness, flattering themselves at the thought that they are strong when in reality, they are just callous and bitter at life.  And they are blind to or are in denial about their own callousness and bitterness - which is what makes them all the more pathetic.  But don't despair, callous and bitter people when you finally realize that you are callous and bitter.  There is real hope for you if you repent of your callousness and bitterness.  But if you never repent of your callousness and bitterness, then, sadly, you are pathetic all the way...

Don't bully the bullies.  Leave them alone.  Bullying them will not bring Phoebe's life back (May she rest in peace.).  But bullying the bullies will make you just like them - callous, insecure, immature, bitter and cold-hearted.  Do you want to be just like them?  The right time to stand up to bullies is soon after they have committed the act of bullying. Defend and protect their victim against them and report the bullies to proper authorities.  They'll be punished accordingly, which can include expulsion from their school.

Bullying should not be tolerated in school or on Facebook.  There needs to be immediate consequences for the bullies' cruel behavior.  Schools need to do a lot more.  Facebook needs to do something about it.  Punishment should be swift and meaningful for it to be a real deterrent to bullies or potential bullies.  But it should also be reasonable and not arbitrary or excessive.  Punishment should fit the crime.  So, the frequency and intensity of bullying committed must be taken into account in order to determine a fair and just punishment.  Expulsion from school is not out of the question.  Being jailed should not necessarily be out of the question.  If a school refuses to expel a multiple-repeat-offender flagrant bully (perhaps because the school wants to keep receiving tuition money from the government or from parents for the bully's school attendance), then the school should be held accountable.  In such a case, financial compensation by the school to the victim should not be out of the question.Here is another tragic story of a boy being bullied until he committed suicide.  www.ocregister.com/news/school-235297-mendez-bullying.html

It's not just girls that are pushed so far that they kill themselves. So saying that it's just a way of life, and that girls should be tough, what about the boys who are constantly told growing up that they need to be a man and be tough? Gender does not matter. Bullying can damage kids so bad that they want to just die. And then they kill themselves, and certain people say that they are weak. It's ridiculous. And for Phoebe Prince to report any kind of harassment over the internet or texts, that would have made the bullying at school 10 times worse. She would get crap for being a "tattle-tale" or a snitch or whatever. That's how girls are. And I don't think the reaction to Yawn was as cruel as what those girls did to Phoebe Prince. And that is pretty outrageous that anyone would even compare the two. Besides, he's tough right? He can handle it.

agreed with "irony" but were still all entitled to our own opinions whether other people like it or not 8-)

bulleying is cruel and although most people say "oh well, its normal when your that age", its not! try telling that to phoebes' parents hmmm was it normal for your 15 year old daughter to kill herself over somebody, who is sooo worthless that they have put others down, words?? no way  

all ive to say is i hope the bullies rot in hell for what they did......that poor girl had her whole life ahead of her and i hope they spend the rest of theirs in jail,,,,

Can someone post the REAL names of the girls that caused Phoebe to kill herself? Show these monsters for who they are...

The girls who contributed to this young woman committing suicide should be very ashamed of themselves. Thank goodness they are being punished. I hope what they did weighs heavily on their minds and that they realize that they took someone's daughter away. There is no need for such cruelty. I don't know why girls are so evil to each other sometimes. It breaks my heart that this goes on every day in schools across the country.

This is a horrible thing to do. Suicide is a huge problem in the United States.We need to act now and try to stop (as much as we can) bullying. We won't be able to eliminate the issue but we can reduce the growing rate of teen suicide!

WOW im sorry for that persons loss but i was wondering if any body knew how many teen's die or get raped do to the internet if so please e-mail me the answer @ lazybear1997@gmail.com THANK YOUyear from

My heart goes out to the family of Phoebe Prince. I think that the situation is horrible and punishments are deserved. Im sure there are a lot of what ifs floating around and probably will be for a long time to come. I think that what the bullies did was wrong, but when I read a lot of these comments, I can't help but feel that so many of you all are being the same way toward those girls. They did wrong and hopefully there will be justifiable punishment. Be an example.

I did a paper on Bullying and I find the results are tragic.    There have been several deaths caused in Businesses because of Bullying, and we are talking Adults.  If they are going on shooting rampages like the one in the transit system in Montreal Canada.  He just wanted the Bullying to stop.   So how does a 15 year old from another country who wants to fit in stand against a group of Bullies, which is hazing and more destructive that being bullied stand without much of a support system.  So to call her weak?   Why she resorted to Sucide I don't know, it is tragic, it is a loss of a life. "Bullying" is behaviour that demeans, humiliates or embarrasses a person, and that a reasonable person should have known would be unwelcome”.  “Bullying involves repeated and deliberate incidents of negative behaviour that cumulatively undermine a person’s self image:” Who is the Bully?  “ The purpose of bullying is to hide feeling of inadequacy & insecurity. Therefore, anyone who chooses to bully is admitting their inadequacy, and the extent to which a person bullies is a measure of their inadequacy. Bullies project their inadequacy on to others: a) to avoid facing up to their inadequacy and doing something about it;b) to avoid accepting responsibility for their behaviour and the effect it has on others, and, c) to reduce their fear of being seen for what they are, namely a weak, inadequate and often incompetent individuals, and,d) to divert attention away from their inadequacy Who is typically a target? 

Fifty-eight percent are targeted because they stand up to unfair treatment by the bully Fifty-six percent are mobbed because the bully envies the target's level of competence Forty-nine percent are targeted simply because they are nice people Forty-six percent are bullied because they are ethical

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