Suicide of Phoebe Prince
Phoebe Nora Mary Prince (November 24, 1994 – January 14, 2010) was a British-Irish student at an American high school whose suicide led to the criminal prosecution of six teenagers for charges including civil rights violations, as well as to the enactment of stricter anti-bullying legislation by the Massachusetts state legislature. Prince had moved from Ireland to South Hadley, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.