Documentary on Clare teen’s death

The father of a North Clare teenager who died by suicide earlier this year has broken his silence. Jeremy Prince, whose daughter Phoebe died in January, will speak publically as part of a documentary being screened on RTÉ next week.

The details surrounding the tragic death of the Clare teenager in the United States will be outlined in The Trials of Phoebe Prince, to be broadcast on Monday night.
The documentary tells the story of Phoebe, the 15-year-old schoolgirl from Fanore who died in Massachusetts. Using first-hand testimonies filmed over the past six months, the documentary chronicles the harassment Phoebe Prince suffered at a South Hadley High School and how her death has become the subject of the most controversial bullying prosecution case in US legal history.
The film, made by Below The Radar Productions, sets out the sequence of events from Phoebe’s move to the US in the summer of 2009 to her death in January 2010. Since then, the Prince family have found themselves at the centre of a media and legal maelstrom and the documentary will also chart the impact that the case and the intense media scrutiny – in particular, the dramatic events of summer 2010 – have had on the family and the community in South Hadley.
The story is told first-hand by those directly involved: Phoebe’s father Jeremy Prince, the district attorney Elizabeth Scheibel, school superintendent Gus Sayer, Emily Bazelon and key figures on both sides of the legal proceedings; the people of South Hadley and the local and international journalists who have covered the story for the past 11 months.
The Trials of Phoebe Prince will be screened on RTÉ 1 next Monday at 9.35pm.