Mom of teen charged with bullying South Hadley H.S. student Phoebe Prince into suicide blames victim

[RamboLiberal]

The mother of one of the "Mean Girls" charged with bullying 15-year-old Phoebe Prince to death defended her daughter Tuesday, saying she never lifted a hand against the tormented girl but just "called her names."

Angeles Chanon admitted that her daughter, Sharon Chanon Velazquez, 16, had once been suspended from school for verbally abusing Phoebe - but blamed the bullied girl for starting it.

"(Sharon) exchanged a couple of words with her," Chanon told the Boston Herald. "Phoebe was calling her names. They're teenagers. They call names."

Chanon insisted her daughter never "physically assaulted" Phoebe, no matter what the District Attorney says.

"I know she knows better than that. I wouldn't accept that," she said.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/03/30/2010-03-30_mom_of_teen_charged_with_bullying_south_hadley_hs_student_phoebe_prince_into_sui.html#ixzz0jhduorCz

No wonder your daughter is a cruel scumbag!

[flvegan]

1. NMS Syndrome.

a/k/a Not My Snowflake Syndrome

[BrklynLiberal]

3. I have to remember that one. It is brilliant.

[Crabby Appleton]

4. Yep nt

[Echo In Light]

5. "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." - Voltaire

[xocet]

38. Excerpt from Wikiquote....

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stanislaw_Jerzy_Lec

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* When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.

pl: Burząc pomniki, oszczędzajcie cokoły. Zawsze mogą się przydać. ...


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* No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."

[Fire1]

8. We use the "my kid shits ice cream." n/t

[virgogal]

19. Chocolate ice cream,of course.

[Posteritatis]

11. Okay, I'm using that term in the future. (nt)

[YOY]

2. Bargain all you want...cruel words can have consequences.

Just as kind ones can.

[MorningGlow]

6. Typical

I've experienced the same thing, on a much smaller scale, with my neighbor. His three kids are some of the nastiest pieces o' work this village has ever produced, but when I informed him of what his children had been doing to my yard and my garden, he said, "They wouldn't do that. I told them not to. They know better."

Yeah, that makes your parenting work. Riiiiight. :eyes:

[KittyWampus]

13. we're all experiencing this right now with the Republicans blaming Democrats f/the violent rhetoric

and threats.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Well parents shoudl also face the consequences

and yes I've heard those excuses in real life as well as the blaming of victim...

[virgogal]

22. I can't agree with you there. Parent's often don't know what their

kids are doing,especially at this age.

[BrklynLiberal]

39. but who sets the tone that gives the child the impression that it is ok to do this kind

of thing?
Who is it that is supposed to set the standards, and the example..the internal standards..that will give a child the instinct
to know right from wrong?

[virgogal]

41. The parents could be really decent people who have tried to instill

the right values but adolescence is very peer-group driven.

They are tough years for kids (and parents).

[Yehonala]

43. Not like this

It's never been this bad. There've been paper throwing and taunting, but not and never like this. Back then the teachers dealt with it and when the bully went home, the parents meted out the punishment after the principal did.

[BrklynLiberal]

9. another article with some more information...

This is so very sad......

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/03/29/2010-03-29_phoebe_prince_south_hadley_high_schools_new_girl_driven_to_suicide_by_teenage_cy.html

[tnlefty]

29. Yes, it it heartbreaking and I feel so bad for her parents,

who went to the school twice to try to get the adults in the school to intervene.

I have no words for the mom in the original article and her blame the victim bullshit.:puke:

[MUAD_DIB]

35. I have friends who are in a similar situation.

The school will do nothing to lift a finger. Well, they reside in Massachusetts, and I now hope they ram this new bill right up the administration's ass.

[DCKit]

10. What a cold POS - If anyone ever doubted "The Ugly American", take note. n/t

[SeattleGirl]

12. What a crappy parent! No wonder her daughter thought she could

get away with what she did.

"But the other girl started it! My little innocent baby would NEVER do anything so mean!"

Suck it, lady!

[Salviati]

14. Gee...

I really hope that cold hearted internet bastards don't get ahold of this womans phone number, email address, and other electronic information, and proceed to harass her until her life is a living hell. On the other hand, all they would be doing is calling her names, so where's the harm in that...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. So what is this "violation of civil rights resulting in bodily injury " charge?

Is the violation of civil rights the name calling with regard to the Irish nationality, and the bodily injury the suicide?

[virgogal]

20. According to Kevin Cullen in today's Boston Globe the civil rights charges

are " legalese for saying they tried to deny Phoebe the right to go to school".

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

25. And the bodily harm is the suicide?

If so, that charge should be dropped, IMO.

[virgogal]

28. He didn't get into that so I can't help you there,but I agree with

you that if the bodily harm is the suicide the charges should be dropped.

[Ruby the Liberal]

36. One of the girls threw a can of red bull at her from a car and clocked her with it

on her way home from school the day she killed herself.

[JoeyT]

40. I'd agree that charge is kind of iffy.

There are plenty of other things they could be charged with.

[Glenda]

23. the violation of civil rights part..

is something like interfering with her right to education

[slackmaster]

16. My Baby Didn't Do Anything Wrong

So they all say.

[chollybocker]

17. Sounds just like Mrs. Palin defending Willow for B&E and ransacking a house in AK.

Except that the Palins have a team of high-priced lawyers defending their parenting skills.

Precious snowflakes, indeed. :eyes:

[REP]

18. This is why relying on the parents won't work; the schools have to treat this as a behavior SpEd

Bullying students need to be cut (not culled) from their herd and placed in separate classrooms that treat them as behavior SpEds, which they are. Parents either can't help (for a variety of reasons, from time to will to skill) or won't (lack of follow through; "not MY angel!"). Special classes cost money but less than prosecuting bullying as a crime.

[madrchsod]

21. what a bitch and apologies to all the female dogs.

[Odin2005]

24. Good!

[Midlodemocrat]

26. T - Did you read this correctly?

The mom of one of the kids accused of bullying the girl who killed herself is defending her child for her reckless behavior.

[smokey nj]

27. I think Odin's "good" was for the criminal charges and not the mother's comments.

[Odin2005]

31. ACK! I was refering to the charges.

[Midlodemocrat]

32. I figured.

:hug:

[JerseygirlCT]

30. She wouldn't accept that

but verbal bullying was just fine.

Nice parenting. No wonder, indeed.

[pipi_k]

33. And THAT is the root of the problem

Parents who think their kids are saints.

What the kids are doing, ultimately, is acting out the issues of the parents.

[bluestateguy]

34. DISgusting

I hope to see all of these nine little monsters forced to do the most humiliating, degrading, demeaning work known to man:

JANITORIAL SERVICE!!

[Ruby the Liberal]

37. I hope all of them face the max the court can throw at them.

[WeekendWarrior]

42. I used to work in a school for troubled kids

and despite brushes with the law, despite an in-your-face hatred for authority and constant disruptions in class, there were parents that would INSIST the teacher, security, the vice principal and every witness to events was either lying or wrong. Their kid would not do what everyone had seen him/her do. It happened time and again.

Oh, and I might add, many of those parents went to the same school when they were young.

[Subdivisions]

44. Wait, this woman wants to blame Phoebe but it was her own daughter

that was suspended?

Hey lady, SHUT THE FUCK UP!

[Yehonala]

47. Remind the Mother

That her daughter tormented an innocent girl on a daily basis and fucked up the lives of her parents permanently. Phoebe will never have another day on this earth, which isn't such a bad things since Phoebe is in heaven now. But her parents are in a living Hell. They'll never see Phoebe get married, have kids, they'll never have grandchildren. Fuck you and your savage animal of a daughter.

[proud2BlibKansan]

45. This woman needs to shut the hell up.

[Yehonala]

46. Out of All OF This

These bullies will spend their lives in the spotlight because of this. Companies will be leery about hiring them, decent society will shun them, men and women they meet won't want anything to do with them, and then when they face God, He'll likely send them to Hell.

I know lots of people on here are atheists, but frankly I believe that a huge part of justice is that they'll face an eternity of suffering as a result of this. God doesn't want bullies in Heaven or it wouldn't be heaven now would it?