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Friend of Phoebe Prince Who Has Asperger's Says She's Taunted Too

A former friend of Phoebe Prince, the girl who hanged herself after she was allegedly bullied at her Boston area high school, now says that she too is being tormented by her peers so badly that she has considered suicide. Payton Spinney, 16, and her mother, Jennifer Kalvinek, say that the teasing began when South Hadley High School did not deliver on a promise to provide special educational and psychological accommodations for Spinney, who has Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism. The school...Full Story
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