New bullying allegations in S. Hadley

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. (WWLP/NBC) - Another teen girl says that she is being bullied at South Hadley High School, more than a year after student Phoebe Prince took her own life, generating worldwide attention.

Despite a tough new state anti-bullying law and even though bullying experts have been brought to the school, South Hadley High School Student Payton Spinney told NBC’s Today Show that she is being bullied. “I've been called Satan, a couple other curse words, I've been threatened to be beaten up,” she said.

Spinney’s mother, Jennifer Kalvinek, says her daughter has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a developmental disorder which can result in social awkwardness. She says that the school has not done enough to help, even though she says that she has called the school four times.

School officials would not give details on Spinney's allegations to NBC News, citing privacy laws, but they dispute the family's claims.

Prince’s aunt, Eileen Moore, and family friend Darby O’Brien, spoke live from the 22News Broadcast Center on the Today Show on Monday morning, and they then spoke with 22News about the allegations of continued bullying at South Hadley High School.

“Where do we go from here? We have to do something, there has to be change. There has to be accountability and the truth has to come out,” Moore said.

“Parents with kids in those schools need to be alarmed that the leadership is failing and they're been failing for well over a year, this is just another episode,” O’Brien said.

South Hadley High School Principal Dan Smith told NBC News regarding the allegations that Payton Spinney had been bullied: “While we cannot comment on individual students or individual incidents due to federal and state privacy laws, we can unequivocally state that much of the information in the article is significantly misrepresented from the facts that were established in our investigation and that were shared with the family.