The suicide of Pheobe Prince, 15, provoked an outcry on both sides of the Atlantic and prompted the Massachusetts lawmakers to pass anti-bullying legislation.
Pheobe, who had moved to Massachusetts with her mother last year from Fanore, County Clare, faced intense harrassment from a group of so-called "mean girls" at South Hadley High School. She was reportedly targetted — and called an "Irish slut" — because she was a new girl who had a fling with a member of the school's American football team.
"Their conduct far exceeded the limits of normal teenage relationship-related quarrels", Elizabeth Scheibel, the local district attorney, told a press conference last night.
Investigators said Pheobe was stalked and taunted almost constantly after arriving at the school in September and faced a barrage of insults on Facebook and in text messages.
"The investigation revealed relentless activities directed toward Phoebe to make it impossible for her to stay at school. The bullying for her was intolerable," Ms Scheibel said.
"The actions of these students were primarily conducted on school grounds during school hours and while school was in session," she said.
The prosecutor gave new details last night of Phoebe's final day when she was allegedly hounded by a male student and two females.
Ms Scheibel said the abuse "appears to have been motivated by the group's displeasure with Prince's brief dating relationship with the male student."
Pheobe was harrassed while studying in the school library in the lunch break, in the school hallways near the end of the school day and as she walked home, she said.
School staff witnessed some of the harrassment but did nothing.
"From information known to investigators thus far, it appears that Phoebe's death on January 14th followed a tortuous day for her, in which she was subjected to verbal harassment and threatened physical abuse," Ms Scheibel said. "The harassment reported to have occurred that day in the school library, appears to have been conducted in the presence of a faculty member and several students, but went unreported to school administrators until after Phoebe's death."
Criminal charges were levelled last night against two boys and seven girls, all under 18.
The two boys, aged 17 and 18, are charged with statutory rape for allegedly having sex with the underage Pheobe.
Four girls aged 16 or 17 face charges ranging from criminal harrassment and stalking to civil rights violations resulting in bodiy injury. Three other girls under the age of 16 face delinquency complaints.
Pheobe's family has moved out of the area since she was found hanged in the cupboard at their home by her 12-year-old sister.
"The Prince family has asked that the public refrain from vigilantism in favor of allowing the judicial system an opportunity to provide a measure of justice for Phoebe," Ms Scheibel said.
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