Mayor: No support for claims of pregnancy pact [View All]

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Source: Yahoo

GLOUCESTER, Mass. - School counselors, teachers and families of students the principal said made a pact to get pregnant and have babies together have no information to back the claim, the mayor of Gloucester said Sunday.
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Mayor Carolyn Kirk plans to meet Monday with school, health and other local officials after Gloucester High School Principal Joseph Sullivan was quoted by Time magazine saying the girls made such a pact.

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Kirk told The Associated Press that Sullivan has told officials in this hard-luck New England fishing town that he can't remember his source of information.

"The high school principal is the one who initially said it, and no one else has said it," Kirk said. "None of the counselors at the school, none of the teachers who know these children and none of the families have spoken about it.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080622/ap_on_re_us/pregnancy_pact;_ylt=AhabRV7RrS3VJGnx4LH_4qdvzwcF

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Well, there goes THAT story.


On edit: for background, here's a previous DU link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3360251