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3 more teens in Phoebe Prince bullying-suicide case to plead

3 more teens in Phoebe Prince bullying-suicide case to plead
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(CBS/WBZ/AP) BOSTON - Three more Massachusetts teenagers accused of bullying 15-year-old classmate Phoebe Prince so relentlessly that she took her own life are expected to agree to deals in the case Thursday.

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The deals for Ashley Longe, Flannery Mullins and Sharon Velazquez are expected to be finalized today in Franklin-Hampshire Juvenile Court.

Two other teens agreed to deals on Wednesday and were sentenced to a year of probation.

According to CBS station WBZ, both 18-year-olds were ordered to do 100 hours of community service to help at-risk children, complete their high school education, and were barred from profiting from their involvement in the Phoebe Prince case.

Six teenagers in all were charged in connection with the January 2010 suicide of 15-year-old Prince, a freshman at South Hadley High School.

Prince, who moved to South Hadley from Ireland, hanged herself in her family's apartment about 100 miles west of Boston.

Prosecutors say Phoebe's family agreed to the plea deals to end the stress of the drawn-out court proceedings and, more importantly, because they required the teens to admit that their threats, crude insults and slurs about Phoebe's Irish ethnicity were criminal acts.

A sixth teen, Austin Renaud, is still slated to go to trial. Renaud, unlike the other teens, only has one charge against him. The 19-year-old is charged with statutory rape for allegedly having sexual contact with Prince. He has denied the allegations, reports CBS station WBZ

Complete Coverage of the Phoebe Prince case on Crimesider

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