The untouchable Mean Girls[attributed to Phoebe Prince,15,committing suicide]

[Marrigan]

I'm posting this in the Current CRIMES thread because we don't have a special one for suicides, and also because IMO what the girls of South Hadley High did to Phoebe Prince should be a crime.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/24/the_untouchable_mean_girls/

The name-calling, the stalking, the intimidation was relentless.

Ten days ago, Phoebe was walking home from school when one of the Mean Girls drove by in a car. An insult and an energy drink can came flying out the car window in Phoebe’s direction.

Phoebe kept walking, past the abuse, past the can, past the white picket fence, into her house. Then she walked into a closet and hanged herself. Her 12-year-old sister found her.

You would think this would give the bullies who hounded Phoebe some pause. Instead, they went on Facebook and mocked her in death.

[Smoof]

This is a sad story and even after her death, the tormentors seem to have no remorse. You wonder what brings kids to this level..are they brought up with no sense of values or compassion? ...are they made this way by their parents? friends? influenced by TV, movies?

So the bottom line is that unless these kids open up and tell us what possessed them, we won't know and I would think their parents will try to keep them out of the limelight and with no real strength for a criminal case, this story will just fade away. Too bad. :sad:

[watson]

Maybe this behavior reflects some immaturity. Hopefully, they'll have an epiphany and be forever haunted by their evil deeds.

Well, I can hope anyway...

[birdwatch]

Maybe this behavior reflects some immaturity. Hopefully, they'll have an epiphany and be forever haunted by their evil deeds.

Well, I can hope anyway... Some immaturity? I think it has more to do with how they are being raised. They even continued after the child had dies? The parents had not been able to get thru to them - or didn't even try? I wonder what their punishment will be - doesn't seem to be the loss of their computer privileges.
Even younger children know right from wrong if raised by families who make an effort to instill any values.
And remember the girls who video taped themselves beating up a "friend" at one of their homes so they could put it on youtube: they giggled all the way thru their court hearing. Their parents also seemed clueless.. There is something very wrong in these families.
http://blogs.wooeb.com/brendan%2012/post.aspx?postid=16779

[Mamie]

And yet the school seems to be doing nothing as well..... there are a ton of issues here that need to be addressed. I think showing these girls the autopsy photos would probably just make them happier....

I agree about showing the girls the autopsy photos. It would just give them more to talk about on FB.

I wonder when the school officials are going to unbury their heads and come up for air. I wonder what would happen if it happened to be one of their daughters who hung herself. What a terrible shame that this beautiful girl who was probably anxious to come to America to learn and live life had an awful end to it instead at the hands of these things that have acquired a name for themselves as "Mean Girls". Does anyone know how they got that name? It just adds more fuel to their actions, IMO.

[Martek]

... "Mean Girls". Does anyone know how they got that name?.

I don't know how they got that name - if they coined it for themselves; or other students; or the media.

But - I took it as a reference to the teen movie also called Mean Girls. It came out in 2004 and starred Lindsey Lohan.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/

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[Mamie]

I don't know how they got that name - if they coined it for themselves; or other students; or the media.

But - I took it as a reference to the teen movie also called Mean Girls. It came out in 2004 and starred Lindsey Lohan.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/

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Ahh-----thanks Martek for the info! I'm way past my teen years (and let us just say it has already struck midnight for me----to borrow a phrase from K. Hepburn to John Wayne in Wooster Cogburn) so that explains why I wasn't familiar with the term or the movie.

Thanks again!

[Mamie]

Ahh-----thanks Martek for the info! I'm way past my teen years (and let us just say it has already struck midnight for me----to borrow a phrase from K. Hepburn to John Wayne in Wooster Cogburn) so that explains why I wasn't familiar with the term or the movie.

Thanks again!

(Heheh, all these years I thought it was Wooster Cogburn but in looking the movie up I find it should have said above Rooster Cogburn! Sorry about that!

[Elle]

Pheobe and all the children who are tormented and terrorized and have lost all hope.:rose:

'Who was there for Pheobe'

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20100201who_was_there_for_phoebe_prince/srvc=home&position=2