GLOUCESTER, Mass. — The city’s mayor said Monday that there is no evidence a group of young girls made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together, seeking to dispel a theory put forth by the high school principal.
“Any planned blood-oath bond to become pregnant — there is absolutely no evidence of,” Mayor Carolyn Kirk said Monday after a closed-door meeting with city, school and health leaders.
Conspicuously absent from that meeting was Gloucester High School principal Joseph Sullivan, who has not responded to repeated requests for comment after he was quoted last week in a Time magazine story saying the girls planned to get pregnant together.
Kirk said she and Superintendent Christopher Farmer have been in touch with Sullivan, and that he was “foggy in his memory” about how he came to think there was a pact.
Seventeen girls became pregnant at the school this year.
