This is from the Memorandum of Law presented by the district attorney against one of the girls.
STATEMENT OF THE FACTS
In an initial interview with thc decedent's mother. investigators learned that Ms. Prince, who had enrolled at the High School in September 2009, was "getting bullied" by
other students at South Hadley High School. According to the published school calendar for the South Hadley Public Schools, the First day of school for the 2009-2010 school calendar year was September 1, 2009.
Additional investigation later revealed that, sometime in November 2009, Sean Mulveyhill, a South Hadley High School senior, had ended a dating relationship with Ms.
Prince, a South Hadley High School freshman. Thereafter, Sean Mulveyhill resumed a dating relationship with his girlfriend, South Hadley High School junior, Kayla Narey.
The defendant, Ashley Longe, a South Hadley High School junior, had known Sean Mulleyhill for years and the pair were close platonic friends. She (the defendant) became acquainted with Kayla Narey through her friendship with Sean Mulleyville. At diverse dates and times during the school year, Kayla Narey voiced her dislike for Phoebe Prince to her (Ms, Prince), Ms. Narey's friends and acquaintances, and other high school classmates. Sean Mu!Mulleyville and the defendant, individually or in conjunction with each other, and Kay!a Narey also voiced their dislike of Ms, Prince'" relationship with Sean Mulveyhill to Ms, Prince, their respective friends and acquaintances and other
high school classmates.
One witness told investigators, in a written statement, that Ms. Prince was not an aggressive person, and stated that:
"She (Ms. Prince) definitely didn't want to fight with the girls in the school. She
just wanted to keep to herself and keep things the way they were. She wanted
people to stop picking on her, to stop being bullied. She wanted people to leave
her alone, She wanted people to stop spreading rumors and stop the girls from
talking about her."
On Wednesday, January 13, 2010, Mrs. Prince told a confidant that she was accused by other girls at school of "taking away" another girl's, boyfriend; that she (Ms. Prince) was being targeted by peers and that accusations at School escalated to making threats of harming her. On January 13th, Ms. Prince explained school "has been close to intolerable lately".
An initial examination of Ms. Prince's cellular telephone was conducted by investigators who were able to determine that several text messages were exchanged between Ms. Prince and an identified telephone number approximately two (2) hours prior to her death. Investigators subsequently learned, through witness interviews, that Ms. Prince had exchanged text messages with a friend during the afternoon hours of her death. The texts focused around the verbally abusive incidents Ms. Prince had been subjected to by Sean Mulveyhill, Kayla Narey and the defendant earlier on the date of her death and her despair at the ongoing taunting to which she was subjected. Following the last outgoing message, documented at 2:48 pm on January 14th, there were no further outgoing texts recovered from Ms. Prince's cellular telephone, although a forensic search of the telephone revealed two (2) additional messages in the "inbox" that went unanswered by Ms. Prince.
From the date of Ms. Prince's death on January 14th to the present, investigators from the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit attached to the Northwestern District
Attorney's Office and the South Hadley Police Department have interviewed and obtained statements from multiple witnesses, that reveal a pattern of assaultive conduct,
through an act or series of acts, directed toward Phoebe Prince by the defendant occurring on or before January 14, 2010 on the grounds of South Hadley High School, located at 356 Newton Street, South Hadley, Massachusetts, or the grounds adjacent thereto, based upon the defendant's hostility of Ms. Prince's relationship with her (the defendant's) male friend, Sean Mulveyhill.
Specifically, witnesses have reported that Phoebe Prince was in the library with friends on January 14,2010. Sean Mulveyhill, Kayla Narey, and the defendant were in the library at the same time. According to witnesses, the defendant made reference to Ms. Prince on multiple occasions while in the library. The first time, the defendant yelled something to the effect of "close your legs" and "I hate stupid sluts."
Others in the library heard what was said, and attempted to divert Ms. Prince's attention so she would not hear it. Another time occurred at the end of the same period. As the bell rang, students got up to leave the library. The defendant walked by Ms. Prince's table and said something to the effect that she (the defendant) hated sluts. According to witnesses the defendant said it loud enough so that Ms. Prince could hear it; and she did.
According to one student, the defendant "was standing next to another table screaming at from across the library." This student told investigators that he definitely heard the defendant call Ms. Prince an "Irish whore". This student described the defendant as "taunting" Ms. Prince, or saying things to her from across the library, on and off for the five minutes that he and another male student were in the library. The defendant intentionally directed comments toward Ms. Prince, so as to malign, among other things, Ms, Prince's national origin; specifically, Ms. Prince's Irish heritage.
Multiple witnesses informed investigators that the defendant referred to Ms. Prince using such words as "stupid sluts" and "Irish whore" while Ms. Prince attempted to study in the school's library. The defendant's comments to Ms. Prince were loud enough that they were overheard the other students in the library. Sean Mulveyhill and Kayla Narey were present throughout these incidents and investigation revealed that they partook, with the defendant, in penning similar derogatory comments about Ms. Prince on the library sign in sheet, as well as visibly displaying affection toward each other in Ms. Prince's line of sight as the defendant taunted her (Ms. Prince),
Thereafter, at the end of the school day on January 14th, at approximately 2PM, students were congregating in the auditorium area of the high school. The defendant was
in this area, in the presence of Sean Mulveyhill and Kayla Narey,as various other students passed by the trio, Multiple witnesses have reported to investigators that the defendant again partook in a verbal assault of Ms. Prince as she (Ms. Prince) made her way past the group, en route to the main doors of the building. The defendant started yelling Ht Ms. Prince. According to one witness, the defendant called Ms. Prince a "whore" and also stated, "...why don't you just open your legs," According to this
witness, the defendant was "calling" Ms. Prince "out" and Ms. Prince "just kept walking." This incident occurred just after the witnesses heard Sean Mulveyhill and the defendant talking about Ms. Prince and calling her names.
The witness heard both Sean Mulveyhill and the defendant call Ms, Prince a "whore". As the defendant spoke, the witness said the other students stopped, "Everyone was silent". The witnesses observed that Sean Mulveyhill encouraged the defendant's behavior. Another witness heard Sean Mulveyhill prompt the defendant by saying, "Here she comes," just prior to Ms. Prince walking by the trio, Immediate!y thereafter, the defendant called Ms. Prince a "slut" and talked about her (Ms. Prince) opening her legs for some guy. Investigators learned that Kayla Narey was sitting next to the defendant at the time that the defendant was yelling at Ms. Prince and Kayla Narey was laughing.
Investigators also have learned about a third incident that occurred just minutes after the incident in the auditorium area involving the defendant and Phoebe Prince. A
witness reported that, upon leaving school, the defendant left the school parking lot in a friend's Car. Ms. Prince had already left school grounds and was walking home on
Newton Street, on the same side of the road as the high school. As the vehicle in which the defendant was riding passed Ms. Prince, the defendant took an empty energy drink can, called Monster Drink, that was inside the vehicle and threw it at Ms. Prince. According to the witness, she remembered hearing the can hit the ground, but did not know if it hit Ms. Prince. The witness reported that as the defendant threw the can at Phoebe. that she (the defendant) said something degrading to her like "Whore." The defendant Started laughing and reported that Ms. Prince was crying as she walked home. Witnesses stated that Ms. Prince's, reactions to the actions previously described incidents varied from fear and apprehension to crying; and that, at various times, these actions interfered with her school! environment.
From boston.com
You would think this would give the bullies who hounded Phoebe some pause. Instead, they went on Facebook and mocked her in death. They told State Police detectives they did nothing wrong, had nothing to do with Phoebe killing herself. And then they went right back to school and started badmouthing Phoebe.
They had a dance, a cotillion, at the Log Cabin in Holyoke two days after Phoebe’s sister found her in the closet, and some who were there say one of the Mean Girls bragged about how she played dumb with the detectives who questioned her.
Last week, one of the Springfield TV stations sent a crew to South Hadley High to talk to the kids.
One girl was interviewed on camera, and she said what was common knowledge: that bullies were stalking the corridors of South Hadley High. As soon as the TV crew was out of sight, one of the Mean Girls came up and slammed the girl who had been interviewed against a locker and punched her in the head.
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