Three teens admit to bullying Prince

HADLEY, Mass. (WWLP) - Sharon Chanon Velazquez, Flannery Mullins, and Ashley Longe, three of the six teens charged following the death of South Hadley High School student Phoebe Prince, have admitted to bullying the teen who took her own life.

Velazquez was the first of the three South Hadley teens to appear in Franklin-Hampshire Juvenile Court Thursday. Velazquez entered the Hadley courtroom surrounded by television and still cameras. During her hearing, she admitted to sufficient facts to a charge of criminal harassment, and has been sentenced to probation until she turns 18 (she reaches that age in July) and 50 hours of community service. She was also ordered to stay away from the Prince family, which requested that Velazquez also serve an additional 50 hours of community service. During her probation, she is also prohibited from leaving Massachusetts.

Mullins admitted to sufficient facts on charges of civil rights violation without bodily injury and disrupting a school assembly. She will have probation until she is 19 years old. Mullins will also have to perform 100 hours of community service with at-risk youth. She has also been ordered to work to get her GED. Mullins was originally charged with criminal harassment and stalking.

Like Velazquez, Longe admitted to sufficient facts on a charge of criminal harassment. She will also receive probation which will last until she turns 19 in April of 2012. She has also been ordered to serve 100 hours of community service.

Sean Mulveyhill and Kayla Narey admitted to bullying Prince Wednesday in Hampshire County Superior Court in Northampton. They were sentenced to one year probation, with Narey being able to clear her criminal record after one year of good behavior.

Prosecutors say that Mulveyhill encouraged the three teen girls who will be in court today to relentlessly harass Prince. Court documents say Longe threw an energy drink at Prince and screamed at her. Mullins allegedly threatened to beat Prince. In court on Thursday, the assistant district attorney said that Prince had missed classes out of fear that Mullins would harm her.

The teens allegedly harassed Prince because she had a brief relationship with Mulveyhill and Austin Renaud. Hours after Velazquez, Mullins, and Longe appeared in court, Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan announced that he was dropping the statutory rape charge against Renaud . He had not been charged with any other crime in connection with Prince's death.

Prince's mother, Anne O'Brien, who was in court during Mulveyhill and Narey's hearings on Wednesday, were also in court on Thursday. Like during the two previous hearings, O'Brien read a prepared statement to the court. Velazquez cried as the statement was read.

During her remarks during Longe's hearing, O'Brien said that Longe apologized to her personally, and as such was the only one of the defendants who expressed remorse for what she had done.