The last teenager to be sentenced, Ashley Longe, admitted she had harassed Prince, and was placed on probation. She admitted she had yelled disparaging remarks at Prince and threw an empty can at her as she walked home from coach outlet store school.Yet O’Brien said Longe had met with her the day before, and praised her courage for wanting to apologize to her in person.“From the start, she has been the only one to acknowledge her actions,” she said.O’Brien asked the court to help Longe become “the person I believshe is capable of being."“Phoebe Prince became very fearful she would be physically attacked,” Gagne said.Prince would skip class and report to the school nurse to avoid any confrontation, he said. Prince’s mother said Mullins made Prince live in fear.“Phoebe soldiered on, struggling to get through the day, hoping the next one to be better,” she said. “Phoebe tried to be strong, but sometimes all people want to do is break you.”Outside the courthouse, Mullins’ lawyer, Alfred Chamberland, said that the district attorney's office had brought excessive charges against his client and demonized her and the other defendants.Before sentencing, Velazquez admitted in a soft voice that what the prosecutor said was true.In her statement, O'Brien said Prince became so frightened of Velazquez she would walk between two people in the hall so she would feel protected.“I can only imagine the terror she instilled in Phoebe,” she said. She said she hoped Velazquez would reflect upon the seriousness of what she had done, but expressed doubt that Velazquez would. After O’Brien finished, Velazquez began to sob.He said the plea was "an acknowledgment by the Northwestern district attorney’s office that these matters were overcharged and that the former administration brought felony indictments in cases which did not call for such.""By doing so," he said, "the Commonwealth unnecessarily exposed my client and the other juveniles in this case to unfair and harsh national and international media scrutiny.”Meanwhile, Sharon Velazquez, 17, was put on probation after admitting to a criminal harassment charge. Prosecutors said Velazquez in January 2010 approached Prince in the hall and loudly called her a disparaging term.Later that day, in the cafeteria, she ordered Prince to "stay away from Flannery Mullins's boyfriend" -- meaning Renaud.Gagne said Velazquez also “verbally berated” Prince in Latin class.With a withering glare at Mullins, O’Brien then recalled fond memories of her daughter, and mourned a future lost.“Phoebe had as much right as Flannery Mullins to be in school,” she said, her eyes locked on the young defendant across the courtroom. “But shop online 2011 school for Phoebe became intolerable.”Mullins admitted to sufficient facts of guilt on a civil rights violation and disturbing an assembly. She must be on probation until she turns 19.First Assistant District Attorney Steven Gagne told the court that in January 2010, Mullins heard rumors that Renaud, her boyfriend at the time, had been romantic with Prince. Gagne said word spread quickly through the school that Mullins was angry and wanted to fight Prince.
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