That is harassment. There are laws.
The deaths need to be investigated and may even ask for the FBI to look at it considering these are candidates to office. The investigation should be through including people that have spoken publicly about the cause of the suicides. I don't care if the two men were emotionally connected, it occurred in the same party with the same players in both instances in the same state of the USA. The investigation needs to bring about a information to prosecute any factual evidence to the reason for their deaths.
March 20, 2010
By the CNN Wire Staff
(CNN) -- Nine Massachusetts teenagers (click here) have been charged with involvement in a months-long campaign of bullying that led to the suicide in January of a 15-year-old girl, a prosecutor said Monday.
Phoebe Prince's body was found hanging in the stairway leading to her family's second-floor apartment in South Hadley, Northwestern District Attorney Elizabeth D. Scheibel told reporters in the western Massachusetts town of Northampton.
"It appears that Phoebe's death on January 14 followed a torturous day for her when she was subjected to verbal harassment and physical abuse," she said.
Earlier in the day, Prince had been harassed as she studied in the library at South Hadley High School, apparently in the presence of a faculty member and several students, none of whom reported it until after the death, Scheibel said....
Bullying by any other name is still bullying.
The deaths need to be investigated and may even ask for the FBI to look at it considering these are candidates to office. The investigation should be through including people that have spoken publicly about the cause of the suicides. I don't care if the two men were emotionally connected, it occurred in the same party with the same players in both instances in the same state of the USA. The investigation needs to bring about a information to prosecute any factual evidence to the reason for their deaths.
March 20, 2010
By the CNN Wire Staff
(CNN) -- Nine Massachusetts teenagers (click here) have been charged with involvement in a months-long campaign of bullying that led to the suicide in January of a 15-year-old girl, a prosecutor said Monday.
Phoebe Prince's body was found hanging in the stairway leading to her family's second-floor apartment in South Hadley, Northwestern District Attorney Elizabeth D. Scheibel told reporters in the western Massachusetts town of Northampton.
"It appears that Phoebe's death on January 14 followed a torturous day for her when she was subjected to verbal harassment and physical abuse," she said.
Earlier in the day, Prince had been harassed as she studied in the library at South Hadley High School, apparently in the presence of a faculty member and several students, none of whom reported it until after the death, Scheibel said....
Bullying by any other name is still bullying.
