Phoebe Prince News

Phoebe Prince News From AOL News

'Gossip Girl'-Style Facebook Scandal Plays Out at Conn. Prep School

(Nov. 23) -- America's elite prep schools may be portrayed as envious, insidious bastions of backstabbing politics on television, but in the real world they sometimes turn out to be -- well, pretty much the same. Connecticut's famous Choate Rosemary Hall, once home to JFK, Ivanka Trump, Edward Albee and others, has become...

Attorney: Change Behavior to Stop Cybercruelty

(Sept. 30) -- Add Tyler Clementi's name to a tragic list that just keeps growing: 15-year-old Phoebe Prince, who hanged herself in Massachusetts in January after three months of "unrelenting" online harassment from classmates 17-year-old soccer player Alexis Skye Pilkington, who killed herself in March in Long...

Revelations Stir New Debate Over Phoebe Prince Suicide

(July 23) -- For more than seven months, the group of teens who allegedly drove Massachusetts high schooler Phoebe Prince to commit suicide have been widely scrutinized in the media and tried in the court of public opinion. But the debate over Prince's death shifted dramatically this week when a online article reported...

Teen Suicide Leads to Indictment of 9 Students

(March 29) --Two days before a high school dance, 15-year-old Phoebe Prince hanged herself at her parents' home. Now, investigators have accused nine of her fellow students with the bullying that may have prompted the suicide. At a news conference today, Northwestern Massachusetts District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel...

Phoebe Prince News From the Web

05/10/12 Teens Plead Guilty to Bullying Girl Who Hanged Herself Source: CW - KTLA 5 - Los Angeles CA Two teens in a group charged with bullying a newcomer to their school who committed suicide last year, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to lesser charges in a deal expected to erase more serious allegations.

Background on Phoebe Prince

The suicide of Phoebe Prince, on January 14, 2010, led to the criminal prosecution of six teenagers for charges including statutory rape and civil rights violations, as well as to the enactment of stricter anti-bullying legislation by the Massachusetts state legislature.

more at wikipedia »