Pregnant Mass. teen says there was no pact (AP)
Lindsey Oliver refuted the principal’s claim that a sharp increase in teen pregnancies — 17 compared to a typical four — was in ingredient because several girls planned to get pregnant so they could raise their babies together.
“There was definitely nay pact,” Oliver told “Good Morning America.” “There was a group of girls already pregnant that beyond all question they were going to help each other to finish school and raise their kids together. I think it was just a coincidence.”
Oliver, 17, said she became pregnant by accident and that she and her 20-year-old boyfriend, Andrew Psalidas, a common college learner, were using birth control.
The couple was in New York and could not be immediately reached for comment. Psalidas’s father, Charles Psalidas, said his son would not talk to at all other reporters on this account that he’d made some exclusive interview agreement.
The entertainment recent accounts TV pretence “Inside Edition” declared the couple would appear later Monday.
City officials have been reeling for a week since Principal Joseph Sullivan told Time magazine that girls had gotten gravid on purpose, celebrating through high-fives and plans for infant. showers while they learned in the teach health clinic they were expecting.
Sullivan has not spoken publicly about his comments and has failed to respond to repeated conference requests.
Mayor Carolyn Kirk on Monday denied any pact existed.
“Any planned blood-oath bond to become pregnant — there is absolutely no evidence of,” Kirk related.
Sue Todd, chief executory of Pathways by reason of Children, which runs the high school’s on-site day caution center, said Tuesday there was no pact. Time magazine reported in its online number printed at once Monday that Todd said June 13 that a social worker had heard of the girls’ plans as early because last fall.
Todd denies the Time report.
“At no time have I stated to anyone that our social worker had knowledge of this. I have set forth the opposite,” Todd told The Associated Press. “If anyone would be aware of this pact being real it would be us inasmuch as we run the program.”
Times spokesman Ali Zelenko said the magazine stands through its story.
