Thats a good article, realistic.
I fail to see what it is about the charge sheet that seems so "grave", I found it to be quite the opposite (precisely what one might expect a rection fro teenage girl to be to such a situation) and unless I see something far worse in the docs on the other 3, for example: altering images of Phoebe via Image editing software to create very sexually graphic images of Phoebe and then posting those online and/or some physical assaults....
much like this article alludes to, I would not anticipate a successful prosecution here...even, after reading this article, on the rape charges and I expected those to have the best chance of resulting in punishment.
In no way am I defending these kid's actions and/or trying to cast blame on Phoebe. I am just saying that I did not find the charge sheet to be as damning as you and others seem to have found it.
This, from the article is key IMO: "
The bullying, Scheibel said, "far exceeded the limits of normal teenage relationship-related quarrels."
How does she know and do we routinely want prosecutors making these calls? Slate's Emily Bazelon reported that among South Hadley students, "the prevailing sentiment was that, yes, Phoebe had been mistreated but not in some unprecedented way. 'A lot of it was normal girl drama,' one girl told me. 'If you want to label it bullying, then I've bullied girls and girls have bullied me. ... It was one of the worst things I've heard of some girls doing to another girl. But it wouldn't have hurt most people that much.'"
I have no great and special insight to why Phoebe did what she did, I've only stated what seems the most reasonable explanation....to me.
I wish that she hadn't taken her life because, as someone else mentioned on the Boston Herald website: whatever it was would have proved to be just a blip on the landscape of her life.
She'd be back home in Ireland right now (they had planned all along to return in springtime) and she was
14 for chrissakes....early 15 at best....
wtf she is supposed to know everything about living, make no errors, be perfect and make no mistakes.
and its far from established that she even DID make mistakes.....
Its said that bullying from Kayla and Ashley began almost immediately, in Sept. when Phoebe got positive attention from teachers for turning her homework in on time and participating in class...(naturally, this as unacceptable to Kayla and Ashley)
Maybe Sean extorts Phoebe with "If I do YOU a favor and stop the bullying...will you do ME a favor......
????"
I mean the girl was HOT, exceptional body for her age and that accent????
easy to see how his "judgment " might have gotten eclipsed by lust....
but still, no one is grasping the importance of "why did Sean become angry enough with Phoebe to participate in the bullying"
which is why one of ya'll need to go infiltrate the "Support Seam Mulveyhill" facebook group, they'd know what the deal was on that.
Infiltrate it....such as has been done before wherein undercover agent posed as biker to get into Hell's Angels.
But, like, 453288564 times less dangerous. :truce:
