DogMom
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Maybe, or maybe rich families that can afford top law firms with great marketing firms with access to reporters, who can turn public opinion in their favor and get their little darlings off the hook. The focus has already been taken off the little darlings and is now on destroying the victim one more time.
You might be onto something.
Limerick school principal responds to allegations that tragic Phoebe Prince bullied girl
THE headmaster of Villiers Secondary School in Limerick city has insisted he has "nothing negative" to say about tragic schoolgirl Phoebe Prince, a student at the school before her family moved to the United States.
He was responding to allegations made in a US magazine that Phoebe, who took her own life earlier this year, bullied a girl while at Villiers.
The 15-year-old attended the North Circular Road school during the 2008-09 academic year. Six students, who are alleged to have bullied the teenager at South Hadley High School, have been criminally charged in connection with her death and are due to go on trial in Massachusetts next month.
American magazine Slate published allegations that Phoebe bullied a fellow student while she was attending Villiers. Headlined "Was Phoebe Prince Once a Bully? Did her school in Ireland turn a blind eye to early warnings of her troubles?" the article claims she bullied a girl of Pakistani origin, who was also attending Villiers. Her alleged bullying is purported to have been of both a sexual and racist nature.
It is believed details of the allegations originated from private investigators who have been working in Limerick for several months on behalf of lawyers representing the six students.
The issue of relevance will have to be argued before the trial judge but there are a lot of people who believe that this is not about the court case per se, but it is about influencing the court case. There may be a plea agreement or the Prince family may just decide that this isn't worth it and ask the prosecutors to seek something short of a trial.
http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/Limerick-school-principal-responds-to.6484859.jp
Next month is going to be a fiasco.