High School Bullies Become Victims
LatestAs more details come out about Phoebe Prince‘s bullying and eventual suicide, anonymous critics have taken to the Internet to cyberbully the bullies.
According to Erik Eckholm and Katie Zezima of the Times, the first official accounts of the case have been released by prosecutors, describing in greater detail than ever before the torment Prince allegedly suffered at the hands of fellow teenagers Ashley Longe, Flannery Mullins and Sharon Chanon Velazquez (six other teens will be tried separately). The documents assert that Longe began bullying Prince after Prince dated her friend’s boyfriend, and that Mullins’s and Velazquez’s crimes began when Prince was linked to a boy who also sometimes dated Mullins. Mullins allegedly threatened to “beat Phoebe up”; Velazquez said she would “punch her in the face.” Most damningly, the documents tell of Prince’s attempts to get help from school administrators — at one point, she told friends she had gone to see a school official about her fears, but that no action had been taken. Administrators dispute the account — school superintendent Gus Sayer says,