Bullying-suicide victim's alleged tormentors make a deal

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. 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.

The 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.

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. 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.

Sean Mulveyhill, second from left, sits in court during his hearing where he pleaded guilty to criminal harassment in Franklin - Hampshire Juvenile Court in Northampton, Mass., Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Mulveyhill was accused of bullying Phoebe Prince so relentlessly that the 15-year-old hanged herself.

Kayla Narey sits in court during her hearing where she admitted to sufficient facts of criminal harassment in Franklin - Hampshire Juvenile Court in Northampton, Mass., Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Narey was accused of bullying Phoebe Prince so relentlessly that the 15-year-old hanged herself.

Sean Mulveyhill, center, stands with his attorneys during his hearing where he pleaded guilty to criminal harassment in Franklin - Hampshire Juvenile Court in Northampton, Mass., Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Mulveyhill was accused of bullying Phoebe Prince so relentlessly that the 15-year-old hanged herself.

In this Monday, Oct. 25, 2010 picture, Austin Renaud appears in Hampton Superior Court in Northampton, Mass., charged with statutory rape of Phoebe Prince. He has pleaded not guilty.

Sharon Chanon Velazquez sits during a hearing Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, in Franklin-Hampshire Juvenile Court in Hadley, Mass. She is one of three who were in court, charged with bullying Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old South Hadley, Mass., High School student who hanged herself in January.

Ashley Longe, left, Flannery Mullins, center, and Sharon Chanon Velazquez, right, all from South Hadley, sit during a hearing Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, in Franklin-Hampshire Juvenile Court in Hadley, Mass. The three are charged with bullying Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old South Hadley, Mass., High School student who hanged herself in January.

Flannery Mullins sits during a hearing Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, in Franklin-Hampshire Juvenile Court in Hadley, Mass. She is one of three who were in court, charged with bullying Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old South Hadley, Mass., High School student who hanged herself in January.

Ashley Longe sits during a hearing Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, in Franklin-Hampshire Juvenile Court in Hadley, Mass. She is one of three who were in court, charged with bullying Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old South Hadley, Mass., High School student who hanged herself in January.

Sean Mulveyhill, right, enters a court room before a pretrial hearing in Hampshire Superior Court, in Northampton, Mass., Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Mulveyhill is one of six South Hadley, Mass., teens charged in connection with South Hadley High School freshman Phoebe Prince's suicide in January of 2010.

Kayla Narey enters a court room before a pretrial hearing in Hampshire Superior Court, in Northampton, Mass., Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Narey is one of six South Hadley, Mass., teens charged in connection with South Hadley High School freshman Phoebe Prince's suicide in January of 2010.

Kayla Narey waits for the start of a pretrial hearing in Hampshire Superior Court, in Northampton, Mass., Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Narey is one of six South Hadley, Mass., teens charged in connection with South Hadley High School freshman Phoebe Prince's suicide in January of 2010.

Austin Renaud, of Springfield, Mass., is arraigned on drunken driving charges in district court in Holyoke, Mass., Tuesday, April 20, 2010, alongside his attorney Terrence Dunphy. Renaud is one of six teens previously charged in what prosecutors said was the "unrelenting" bullying of Phoebe Prince, 15, who committed suicide in January.

Northwestern District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel, center, speaks at a news conference Monday, March 29, 2010, in Northampton, Mass., where she said nine teens had been charged in the "unrelenting" bullying of Phoebe Prince, 15, of South Hadley, Mass., a teenage girl from Ireland who killed herself in January after being raped and enduring months of torment by classmates in person and online. At left is South Hadley Police Chief David LaBrie and at right is First Deputy Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Dunphy Farris.

In this Jan. 15, 2010 photo, a candlelight vigil is held at South Hadley, Mass., High School for freshman Phoebe Prince, 15, originally from Ireland. Prince endured months of taunts and threats after she briefly dated a popular boy, prosecutors say. The 15-year-old hanged herself at home Jan. 14 and six of her classmates face charges.

This Dec. 21, 2009 photo shows Sean Mulveyhill. Mulveyhill, a student at South Hadley High School in South Hadley, Mass., was indicted on several charges, including statutory rape, related to the January suicide death of former South Hadley student Phoebe Prince, 15, originally from Ireland.