They're finally getting somewhere

Good article in today's Globe about that poor girl in South Hadley who committed suicide and the DA who is finally taking the ones who did it to task:

Standing up for Phoebe Prince

Ostensibly, yesterday was the day that DA Betsy Scheibel announced charges against nine teens who, to varying degrees, made Phoebe Prince feel like life wasn’t worth living.

But what Scheibel had to say was as much an indictment of a look-the-other-way, kids-will-be-kids culture that permeated South Hadley High. Whatever we expect students to do in these situations, there were adults at the high school who didn’t intervene when they could have, adults who didn’t protect Phoebe after Anne Prince told them her daughter was being tormented.

That inaction, Scheibel said, didn’t rise to criminal behavior. But it didn’t save Phoebe, either.

Throw the fucking book at them, Betsy, and let anyone else who thinks they can get away with this sort of thing see what will happen to them!