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'Gossip Girl'-Style Facebook Scandal Plays Out at Conn. Prep School
By Dave Thier - AOL News(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 embroiled in a Facebook scandal that seems ripped from an episode of "Gossip Girl," The Daily Beast's Lynnley Browning reports. A group of Choate students are in serious trouble after posting flames to a 200-page private Facebook thread titled "Mwaahhahaha," where they ...
Attorney: Change Behavior to Stop Cybercruelty
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(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 Island, N.Y., after a torrent of vicious e-mails were posted online, then continued after her death 13-year-old Megan Meier, who took her own life in Missouri in 2006 after being taunted with a series of messages, including "You are a bad person and everybody hates you" ...
Revelations Stir New Debate Over Phoebe Prince Suicide
By David Lohr - AOL News(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 she'd had a history of emotional problems and even attempted suicide in the past. "My investigation into the events that gave rise to Phoebe's death ... reveals the uncomfortable fact that Phoebe helped set in motion the conflicts with other students that ended in them turning ...
Phoebe Prince: Victim of Bullycide -- or of a Deeper Problem?
By Mary Winter - Politics DailyThe suicide of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince in South Hadley, Mass., in January has shone a white hot light on bullying -- in particular, cyber bullying -- perhaps the most venal bullying of all because it's viral and it's faceless. A beautiful girl with a Mona Lisa mien is dead. The nation is outraged, and prosecutors are going after six of her classmates with a vengeance. ...
Teen Suicide Leads to Indictment of 9 Students
By David Knowles - AOL News(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 detailed the charges against Prince's fellow students at South Hadley High School. They included statutory rape, violation of civil rights, criminal harassment and disturbance of a school assembly, The Boston Globe reported. Prince, who recently immigrated to the United ...
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