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Gloucester High teens involved in pregnancy pact
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Gloucester High teens involved in pregnancy pact - BostonHerald.com
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A group of teen-aged girls at Gloucester High who were part of a baby boom at the North Shore school entered into a pregnancy pact last year pledging to raise their babies together, Time magazine reported in a bombshell story published online today.
In total, 17 girls at Gloucester High are expecting babies and Principal Joseph Sullivan believes at least half those would-be moms planned to have babies, some even high-fiving each other when they found out they were expecting, according to the article.
The number of pregnant students this school year is four times the rate of last year.
The school started looking into the spike in teen-aged pregnancies in October when the students - all under 16 - filtered into the school health clinic for pregnancy tests, Sullivan told the national magazine.
“Some girls seemed more upset when they weren’t pregnant than when they were,” Sullivan told the magazine.
Some of the students, upon hearing the news, started talking of plans for baby showers, Sullivan told the magazine.
Sullivan said school officials found out that one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless man.
“One way to describe it is ’disturbing,”’ said School Committee chairman Greg Verga, who spoke to the Herald this morning.
Verga first read of the alleged pregnancy pact in Time, but said the idea isn’t that far fetched.
“I have heard rumors some of these pregnancies were not accidents,” he said.
The magazine reported that the pregnant girls who allegedly entered into the pregnancy pact declined to be interviewed.
The Herald could not immediately reach Sullivan.
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