Pregnancy Pact Rumors are Being Denied
After a meeting with local city and school officials, Carolyn Kirk stated, "any planned blood-oath bond to become pregnant-there is absolutely no evidence." And one of the pregnant teens involved, 17 year old Lindsey Oliver, told Good Morning America that,
There is definitely no pact. There was a group of girls already pregnant that decided they were going to help each other to finish school and raise their kids together. I think it was just a coincidence.
However, fellow high school students and resident of Gloucester are having a hard time believing that the denial is true. Annette Dion, a 45 year old resident, said, "I don't think we heard the truth today. This is a tragedy, very upsetting, and when the mayor won't answer questions it infuriates us even more."
High school student Nick Francis, who is in the same class as three of the pregnant teens, said that the pregnancy pact was common knowledge. And 15 year old Nicole Mitchell made a statement regarding two of the girls saying, "They were best friends. They wanted to raise their kids together so they could be best friends too."
Just because they talked about raising their kids together doesn't mean they made a pregnancy pact. I know when I was in high school my girlfriends and I always talked about how we would be neighbors and raise our kids together. Although 17 pregnant teens is a little to many to be coincidental.
